{"id":18,"date":"2007-01-15T10:43:10","date_gmt":"2007-01-15T17:43:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/?p=18"},"modified":"2017-04-25T04:54:42","modified_gmt":"2017-04-25T11:54:42","slug":"more-on-mahmoud","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2007\/01\/more-on-mahmoud","title":{"rendered":"More on Mahmoud"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p>From <a href=\"http:\/\/jta.org\/page_view_breaking_story.asp?intid=6424\">JTA News<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong>House resolution calls for Ahmadinejad genocide charges<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>A bipartisan slate of lawmakers in the U.S. House of Representatives proposed a resolution calling on the Iranian president to face genocide incitement charges.<\/p>\n<p>The non-binding resolution brought last week to the House\u2019s Foreign Affairs Committee and initiated by Reps. Steve Rothman (D-N.J.) and Mark Kirk (R-Ill.), says statements by President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad calling for the destruction of Israel amount to crimes according to the 1948 Convention on Genocide.<\/p>\n<p>The convention not only provides for punishment for genocide, Rothman and Kirk wrote in a letter to their colleagues, but \u201calso prohibits \u00b4direct and public incitement to commit genocide.\u00b4 It further provides that individuals committing genocidal crimes shall be punished \u00b4whether they are constitutionally responsible rulers, public officials or private individuals.\u00b4 Ahmadinejad\u00b4s hateful rhetoric calling for the elimination of Israel, a Member State of the United Nations, qualifies as inciting genocide.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Uh oh! Looks like Mahmoud may find it difficult to be a Jew-hating genocidal maniac in the future.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From JTA News: House resolution calls for Ahmadinejad genocide charges A bipartisan slate of lawmakers in the U.S. House of Representatives proposed a resolution calling on the Iranian president to face genocide incitement charges. The non-binding resolution brought last week to the House\u2019s Foreign Affairs Committee and initiated by Reps. Steve Rothman (D-N.J.) and Mark [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-geopolitics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":52322,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18\/revisions\/52322"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}