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Ahmadinejad Is Beyond the Pale
[Financial Times-UK] Editorial - If Iran wishes and expects to be treated as a member of the international community in full standing, then it cannot behave in the way it did this week, by hosting a grotesque carnival of Holocaust deniers, white supremacists, anti-Semites, assorted lumpen-academics, and rednecks. It is simply contemptible to attempt to cast doubt on the most consciously wicked crime against humanity and one of the greatest affronts to civilization. Ahmadinejad is a weird political mixture. Part shrewd populist, part end-of-days mystic, he clearly believes that stirring up sentiment against Israel (and against Jews in general) will deflect popular attention from his near complete failure to fulfill his campaign pledges to end poverty and corruption.