The clip was found and translated by MEMRI (Middle East Media Research Institute), and screened on its MEMRITV.org television monitor project.
Wiam Wahhab, known to be pro-Syrian, served as Lebanon’s Minister of the Environment from 2004-5.
Asked whom he supports in the World Cup, Wahhab said, 'I support Germany in politics and Brazil in soccer. … I like the Germans because they hate the Jews and burned them' – and then laughed heartily."