Iranian Supreme Leader Watches IRGC Soldiers Vow to Destroy Israel

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Feb222019

In a speech he gave at an Iran Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) officer training ceremony in October 2019, Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei called on the country’s youth to continue its “resistance” against America. In addition to chants of “Death to America!” the ceremony was an opportunity to shout out Iran’s longstanding goal and threat to destroy Israel. The video of the ceremony was broadcast on Iranian television.

Quote: “Soon the city of Tel Aviv will be destroyed!” | “May a curse be upon those [who have] melted into the religion of the Jews!” | “We are the conquerors of Jerusalem and the destroyers of Haifa! Death to Israel! [We are] on the path to conquer Palestine!”

Source: MEMRI.org

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“[T]he foundations for extremism usually are held in check by various restraints. Societies are not liberal, moderate, progressive, and free because almost all their citizens – let alone their politicians — are liberal, moderate, progressive or committed to the freedoms of others.

“But societies consistently avoid extremism when the infrastructures of freedom are strong: when key institutions and norms encourage a more decent, rights-respective, lawful politics; when powerful social movements and independent media hold leaders to account, expose rather than reinforce political fantasies, and champion the rights of the vulnerable; and when information is produced and scrutinized by scholars, civil servants, and non-governmental organizations devoid of either government repression or vested interests.

“Yet no infrastructure is rigidly immovable, and once key components are eroded and weakened, once sections of the political and cultural elite attempt to mobilize the foundations of extremism, the system of restraints can swiftly collapse.

“While genocide on the scale of the Holocaust is historically exceptional, its central lesson is that the broader danger of extreme atrocities is not. In the words of the great historian Ian Kershaw, the Holocaust ‘lit a warning beacon that still burns brightly: it showed how a modern, advanced, cultured society can so rapidly sink into barbarity… It showed what we are capable of.’ Only by rejecting false narratives of conflict and polarization, and maintaining systems of rights and freedoms for all, can we hope to prevent that capability from once more becoming a reality.”

— Jonathan Leader Maynard in his incisive article “Could It Happen Here?: The Holocaust and Atrocities in the 21st Century” To read the entire article, click here.

Iranian Supreme Leader Watches IRGC Soldiers Vow to Destroy Israel

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