IRAN: President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad called Israel a “rotten, dried tree” that will be annihilated. “Like it or not, the Zionist regime is heading toward annihilation,” he said at a conference for supporting the Palestinians that opened in Tehran on Friday. “The Zionist regime is a rotten, dried tree that will be eliminated by one storm,” he said.

CHINA: “We hope all parties will adopt a cool-headed approach,” Vice Foreign Minister Yang Jiechi said at a news conference Friday. “Dialogue is better than confrontation. We should work together toward this end.”

OK, if you’re Israel, what exactly is the responsive “dialogue” here?