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Source: http://www.nytimes.com/2006/09/23/world/middleeast/23iran.html
Israeli Ambassador Denounces Foreign Affairs Group for Inviting Ahmadinejad to Speak
[New York Times] David E. Sanger - Israeli ambassador to the U.S. Daniel Ayalon on Friday accused the Council on Foreign Relations of making a "terrible mistake" by inviting President Ahmadinejad of Iran to a meeting with the group earlier this week. "Some of those upset with the council's decision have compared it to hypothetically inviting Hitler to a meeting in the 1930s," Ayalon wrote. "In fact, meeting with Ahmadinejad is worse: Hitler did not openly call for genocide in the 1930s, and today we have the lessons of the 1930s to guide us. Foremost among those lessons is that appeasing fanatics like Hitler and granting them legitimacy leads to genocide and war."