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New York, NY - Nobel Laureate Elie Wiesel today called for the imprisonment of Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, whom Wiesel described as "the No. 1 Holocaust denier in the world."
Wiesel said that the Iranian president should be arrested immediately and taken to the International Court of Justice in The Hague.
"This man," Wiesel said, "wants Iran to become nuclear so that he could destroy the state of Israel. This man should be arrested for incitement, crimes against humanity. He should not be president of the state. He should be arrested and brought to be charged by the international court."
Wiesel, a resident of New York, was invited by President Obama last week to accompany him on a visit to Buchenwald, the extermination camp where Wiesel and his father were imprisoned by the Nazis.
The visit brought back the worst memories of his life. He recalled the night his father, after months of intense suffering, died in a barracks bed just above his. Bodies were burned there and, remembering that, Wiesel said at the Buchenwald ceremony: "His grave is somewhere in the sky. This has become, in those years, the largest cemetery of the Jewish people."
He remembered how his father "called my name and I was too afraid to move. All of us were. And then he died. I was there but I was not there."
Is he discouraged about the world ignoring most appeals for peace and brotherhood and sisterhood? Wiesel said he refused to be discouraged.
"The teacher in me, the writer in me says, 'No, I cannot do that.'"
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Jun 09, 2009 at 07:54 PM Trying to understand Says:
Isn't it sad that a survivor has to go through such immense pain and suffering to make a point that is almowt certainly unheard by those that this message was intended for? The world is a cruel place and we can't forget that "halachah hee b'yadua......". It doesn't matter if its ahmaderagen or some other hateful "Rosho"!!!!!
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Jun 09, 2009 at 08:53 PM KidFromWilly Says:
This will never happen and neither does it make any sense. He's, after all, a leader in a country that is currently NOT at war with the US.
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Jun 09, 2009 at 08:21 PM yehudala Says:
No comments? Well for 1 I am 1million% maskim 2 what happened during the dark days of world war 2 did not happen over night same to with Muslim extremest there spewing the same garbage that the Nazis where saying religion,gays,gypsy's ect.wake up people its time to step up. Story: there was a person that when the Nazis said to off the gays he's said nothing when they said off the gypsy he said nothing when they said off the yid he said nothing when they said he's going to the camp he said nothing (it was to late) what are we waiting for ITS TO LATE!!!!NEVER NEVER NEVer not on my time in the velt. Thank you & good night America!
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Jun 09, 2009 at 09:34 PM Boruch N. Hoffinger Says:
BS"D
If Mr. Elie Wiesel had a clearer view of reality he would realize that all the threats and problems Eretz Yisroel is suffering is because of our sins.
Check out Dovid HaMelech's writings.
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Jun 09, 2009 at 09:22 PM Anonymous Says:
THANKS Mr. Wiesel for your hard work!!!!
We have to get rid of that crazy man in Iran that would like to kill us all.
We have to make as much noise as possibly...... because no one else cares.
We need to pray ,we need moshiach now!!!!!
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Jun 10, 2009 at 03:44 AM מהפך פשטא Says:
“ BS"D
If Mr. Elie Wiesel had a clearer view of reality he would realize that all the threats and problems Eretz Yisroel is suffering is because of our sins.
Check out Dovid HaMelech's writings. ”
אל תגטרג על כלל ישראל
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Jun 10, 2009 at 01:57 AM Milhouse Says:
This is nonsense. He's the president of a sovereign state - whom exactly does Wiesel expect to arrest him? And how can the ICJ try him? First of all it is not a criminal court, and second of all it has no jurisdiction without both parties' consent. So what does Wiesel think he will achieve with such a pronouncement?
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Jun 10, 2009 at 12:27 AM Sydney. Says:
To boruch hoffinger: how can you say such apikorus?? Any lubavitcher chossid knows Torahs view, the Rebbe's view on this very delicate subject...as a matter of fact Eli Wiesel has the clearest view of reality..he has had a number of yechidus with the rebbe. In one of them both he and the rebbe broke down and were crying for a number of minutes about the terrible suffering that the yidden endured through the years of nazi germany. As the rebbe said many times that the yidden in post-war Europe where way holier than the yidden today. The same can be applied to todays situation. I know what you are going to say that the rebbe said not one inch etc... and if they would've listened things would be different. At the end of the day as the rebbe told Eli wiesel by that yecidus after the holocaust who do you want me to believe in... man??
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Jun 10, 2009 at 07:41 AM isaac Says:
“ This is nonsense. He's the president of a sovereign state - whom exactly does Wiesel expect to arrest him? And how can the ICJ try him? First of all it is not a criminal court, and second of all it has no jurisdiction without both parties' consent. So what does Wiesel think he will achieve with such a pronouncement? ”
Of course it is nonsense. But typical of the liberal thought process. If only the League of Nations had arrested Hitler...
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Jun 10, 2009 at 07:59 AM jancsi Says:
#4 keep rehashing the same lame mindless nonsensicle thing about our sins you need to get out of youre fantasy because if you wont you will be draged out di shoite shoites think they know it all above everybody youre a gigantic fooooooooool