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That gifted entertainer, the President of Iran, has commemorated Hitler's hundred and twentieth birthday in fine style, by causing the British ambassador to the UN in Geneva to flee from the room in order to avoid moral contamination. Representatives from several European countries joined the mainland in making a strategic retreat for the triumph of truth, democracy and the Righteous State; so it appears that lessons have been learned from the Second World War after all. Ahmadinejad alleged that the state of Israel, which has used the Holocaust as an excuse for every atrocity committed since its inception, was created "on the pretext of Jewish suffering"; and further claimed that the Jewish state, in which non-Jews are second-class citizens, was a "racist regime". He also foamed that the Righteous State, which has turned Gaza into a concentration camp and launched massive armed attacks on Lebanon, is in some way "cruel and oppressive".

Meanwhile, Britain's leading liberal newspaper happily regurgitates the mistranslation of Ahmadinejad's quote from Khomeini that the "regime occupying [Jerusalem] must be eliminated from the page of time" - a statement more or less on a par with anti-apartheid campaigners in the 1980s saying that the regime in Pretoria was not sustainable, and thus a statement gleefully paraded by Tel Aviv and sanctimoniously condemned by the international community at every opportunity. To say that a state should be got rid of is not the same thing as saying that a country should be wiped off the map or a people exterminated. The apartheid South African state has vanished from the page of history, and the Afrikaners are still with us. The French state founded in 1946 was eliminated in 1958 and replaced with a new one; to the best of my knowledge, it was not found necessary to drive anyone into the English Channel in the process.