Ostanin, an investigative journalist, reported that, in 2005, Corbyn defended Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's famous speech in which he called for Israel to be "wiped off the map." That year, Ahmadinejad, then the Iranian president, not only called for Israel's destruction, but also pledged that "anybody who recognizes Israel will burn in the fire of the Islamic nation's fury." Ahmadinejad, who was speaking at a program called "The World Without Zionism," also said that attacks by Palestinians would destroy the Jewish state. "The establishment of the Zionist regime was a move by the world oppressor against the Islamic world," he said. "The skirmishes in the occupied land are part of the war of destiny. The outcome of hundreds of years of war will be defined in Palestinian land."

World leaders andby the Palestinian leadership, and that Kofi Annan [who was secretary-general of the U.N. in 2005] had pointed out the speech was wrong and condemned it, they said. "Coming just two years after the disastrous Iraq War, Jeremy Corbyn warned against another rush to war in the Middle East, which many saw as being by driven by George Bush and Tony Blair, and opposed the Israeli government's continuing occupation of Palestinian territory and human rights abuses." "Those were the right calls and arguments to make."

So, just to clarify, a head of state threatening to annihilate Israel is not a problem, even when that state already funds terrorist groups that attack it, but building apartment buildings in the West Bank is just too much.

Corbyn's fear of another war erupting