Fun Fact #10: Iranian President Speaks at Columbia U

Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's view of Jews and the rights of the Palestinians, as propogandized at Columbia University today: "

"We love all nations. We are friends with the Jewish people. There are many Jews in Iran living peacefully with security. You must understand that in our constitution, in our laws, in the parliamentary elections, for every 150,000 people we get one representative in the parliament. For the Jewish community, one-fifth of this number they still get one independent representative in the parliament. So our proposal to the Palestinian plight is a humanitarian and democratic proposal.


"What we say is that to solve the 60-year problem we must allow the Palestinian people to decide about its future for itself. This is compatible with the spirit of the Charter of the United Nations and the fundamental principles enshrined in it. We must allow Jewish Palestinians, Muslim Palestinians and Christian Palestinians to determine their own fate themselves through a free referendum. Whatever they choose as a nation everybody should accept and respect. Nobody should interfere in the affairs of the Palestinian nation. Nobody should sow the seeds of discord. Nobody should spend tens of billions of dollars equipping and arming one group there.


"We say allow the Palestinian nation to decide its own future, to have the right to self-determination for itself. This is what we are saying as the Iranian nation."


I have some questions of my own, though I am certainly not a student of international conflict... but (1) After the Jews of Israel recently gave up their homes and their land, in the name of peace and by mutual agreement, to the Palestinians, why was it not enough? And (2) why are there Iranian "fingerprints" on the bombs of terrorism in Israel? I thought it was up to the Palestinans to decide their own future...