Look who’s talking and spouting the same old rhetoric… none other than Iranian President Ahmadinejad.

Ahmadinejad spoke Monday at a ceremony honoring the late founder of the Islamic Republic of Iran, Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini.

According to IRNA, Ahmadinejad said that “criminal and terrorist Zionist regime” with a track record of “60 years of plundering, aggression and crimes … has reached the end … and will soon disappear from the geographical” charts.

Sounds threatening to me. Course, his anti-Israel rhetoric is nothing new but the soon disappear part is troubling.

And since Iran is allied with Syria, Israel better not give up the Golan Heights as it is strategic territory. Incidentally, that’s what Syria wants, not peace with Israel.

Syrian President Bashar Assad said during a visit to The United Arab Emirates on Monday that Israel’s agreement to withdraw from the Golan Heights was a prerequisite for the renewed peace negotiations between the two countries.

Once the Golan is gone, there’s nothing to bargain with. Israel, unlike Syria or Iran, has no desire to wipe it’s neighboring countries out of existence. Just bomb their nuclear facilities to protect it’s existence.