One might even say it’s the final solution:

Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said Thursday the solution to the Middle East crisis is to destroy Israel. In a speech during an emergency meeting of Muslim leaders, Ahmadinejad also called for an immediate halt to fighting in Lebanon between Israel and the Iranian-backed militant group Hezbollah.

“Although the main solution is for the elimination of the Zionist regime, at this stage an immediate cease-fire must be implemented,” he said.

So, in other words, the purpose of a cease-fire is just to buy time until “the Zionist regime” can be eliminated. Iran would annihilate Israel today if it could, but it takes time to build a nuke. So the only purpose of a cease-fire would be to protect what remains of Hizbollah; after all, Iran might need them again in the future.

Ahmadinejad, who has drawn international condemnation with previous calls for Israel to be wiped off the map, said the Middle East would be better off “without the existence of the Zionist regime.”

Actually, the Middle East would be much better off if there were more countries like Israel, the region’s only stable, functioning democracy where Jews and Muslims are even allowed to serve side-by-side in the legislature.

Ahmadinejad disagrees. To him, the world simply needs more jihad.

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Note: A point in this post has been clarified since it was initially written.