Post by Pepe PaponOn Sat, 5 Jun 2010 16:32:30 -0700 (PDT), thedarkman
Post by thedarkmanOr perhaps you believe that oft-regurgitated Jewish lie that he
threatened to wipe Israel off the map?
No, he merely said that "Israel must be wiped off the map".
That's a lie.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mahmoud_Ahmadinejad_and_Israel
The translation presented by IRNA has been challenged by Arash
Norouzi, who says the statement "wiped off the map" was never made
and that Ahmadinejad did not refer to the nation or land mass of
Israel, but to the "regime occupying Jerusalem". In his own words:
So what did Ahmadinejad actually say? To quote his exact words in
Persian: "Imam ghoft een rezhim-e ishghalgar-e qods bayad az
safheh-ye ruzgar mahv shavad."
That passage will mean nothing to most people, but one word might
ring a bell: rezhim-e. It is the word "Regime", pronounced just
like the English word with an extra "eh" sound at the end.
Ahmadinejad did not refer to Israel the country or Israel the land
mass, but the Israeli regime. This is a vastly significant
distinction, as one cannot wipe a regime off the map. Ahmadinejad
does not even refer to Israel by name, he instead uses the
specific phrase "rezhim-e ishghalgar-e qods" (regime occupying
Jerusalem).
So this raises the question.. what exactly did he want "wiped from
the map"? The answer is: nothing. That's because the word "map"
was never used. The Persian word for map, "nagsheh", is not
contained anywhere in his original Persian quote, or, for that
matter, anywhere in his entire speech. Nor was the western phrase
"wipe out" ever said. Yet we are led to believe that Iran's
President threatened to "wipe Israel off the map", despite never
having uttered the words "map", "wipe out" or even "Israel"
The full quote translated directly to English: "The Imam said this
regime occupying Jerusalem must vanish from the page of time".
Word by word translation: Imam (Khomeini) ghoft (said) een (this)
rezhim-e (regime) ishghalgar-e (occupying) qods (Jerusalem) bayad
(must) az safheh-ye ruzgar (from page of time) mahv shavad (vanish
from)..[12][13]
--
Ray Fischer
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