Speaking before the Quds Day protesters on Friday, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad pointed to the Palestine-Israel case as the most important global issue and added "Some are ignorant as to the depth of the issue. They think that once upon a time something has happened and a group have made a decision, a land has been occupied, a group have risen to power, and now they can gather around a couple cups o’ coffee and talk the matter over. If it was that easy, 70 years of turmoil, a number of wars, and all this scuffle would have been meaningless. It is clear that the issue is more important than that.”
"Some think that this has been a
historical event and one must either pass it by or sit to talks and solve it.
[They think] that well, it is a land, let us give some of it to this group and
some to the other and solve the matter for all and then see you later alligator;
that is not a correct outlook. This is a historic naiveté and credulity.”
The President also condemned Western
support for Israel, saying "If Western countries settled a group in the Palestinian
land out of compassion and human rights, how is it that they sacrifice human
rights for the Zionist?”