Did you see Glenn Beck’s CNN Headline News show last Wednesday, “Exposed: The Extremist Agenda.” I believe it will air again this Sunday at 7:00 p.m. It’s on YouTube too. It doesn’t seem to be causing much of a stir, and as Benjamin Netanyahu says on the show, “It makes you understand how the `30s happened, because Ahmadinejad, the president of Iran, is openly saying, while he denies the original Holocaust, he`s openly saying that he`s preparing another Holocaust to wipe Israel off the face of the earth with Iranian atomic bombs.”

The messages Beck collected are simply evil, but let me start with one that’s funny. From an investigative report on Iranian TV:

The Zionists are the largest shareholders of the world`s drink manufacturers. Coca-Cola, besides its clear continuous support of the Israeli government, had announced its willingness to invest billions of dollars to topple the regime of the Islamic Republic of Iran. . . . Take for example the Pepsi drink. You know what the name of Pepsi stands for? “Pay Each Penny Save Israel.”

Beck adds, “Coca-Cola wants to topple Iran. Obviously ridiculous. But the average Iranian citizen has no reason not to believe these claims.”

One analyst speculates this kind of wild propaganda comes in part from never having a free press. I guess Iranian Michael Moores run all the stations and newspapers. For my part, I don’t care for Pepsi, but if buying a few will help save Israel–well, I’ll consider it.

But with presidents like Ahmadinejad, the press in Iran isn’t the press at all. It’s the president’s office of public information. In the U.S., Ahmadinejad said:

AHMADINEJAD (through translator): Our message is the message of peace and brotherhood with all nations, with all people. We love the American people as we love our own.

BECK: Just one month before that on Iranian news, he wasn`t talking about love and respect.

AHMADINEJAD (through translator): If you want to have good relations with the Iranian people in the future, you should acknowledge the right and the might of the Iranian people. If you do not accept this, the Iranian people will force you to bow and surrender.

SHOEBAT [another expert]: And when the camera turns, and you see the hundreds of thousands of people cheering “Death to America, death to Israel,” it is this part that the west doesn`t see.

Mr. Netanyahu says that he read in a European newspaper an interview with a Holocaust survivor who was asked “‘What is your main lesson from the Holocaust?’ And the Holocaust survivor said, ‘My main lesson is that if somebody tells you he`s going to exterminate you, believe him.'”

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