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'Wiped off the Map' The Rumor of the Century »
Posted by: Aidenag 2 years, 6 months agoAcross the world, a dangerous rumor has spread that could have catastrophic implications. According to legend, Iran's president has threatened to destroy Israel, or, to quote the misquote, "Israel must be wiped off the map." Contrary to popular belief, this statement was never made.
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Thinker22
May 27, 2007, 9:26 a.m.> So this raises the question.. what exactly did he want "wiped from the map"? The answer is: nothing.
Very well. Can you tell us the REAL meaning of Ahmadinehad's words please? Will Israel remain in place after "erasing" the "regime in Jerusalem" from the "map of time"? Will the people of Israel who are 80% Jewish be free to elect the next "regime"? Do you have any doubts that the next "regime" elected by the 80% Jewish people of Israel will be any more to Ahmadinejad's liking?
Finally, would you have a problem with a similar call to erase the regime in Teheran from the map?
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PsychoHosebeast
May 27, 2007, 9:29 a.m.What a load of apologist BS. How pathetic are you when you're making up excuses for a lunatic? And maybe the author could explain in his next article, just why Ahmadinejad never denied saying it... and then for a third and final article, the author can tell us all that he never claimed the Holocaust didn't happen.
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not2needy
May 27, 2007, 12:19 p.m.Believe none of what you hear, and only half of what you see.
Ahmadinejad is under a microscope right now, i don't think he could accomplish going to the bathroom without the world knowing it, if need be.
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tehranchik
May 27, 2007, 12:44 p.m.This is not a factual statement and there have been many online commentors over the months that have given a word for word translation of what was really said. If I can find any of the comments or translations I will post it back here.
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el4sail
May 27, 2007, 1:39 p.m.Israel has two choices in the near future.
The Saudi Plan "back to 67 borders."
Or the Iranian plan "back to the borders of 140 AD."
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Macondo
May 27, 2007, 1:53 p.m.Neophile.
Thanks.
This is good information for the sake of objectivity.
I spend part of my time overseas mostly in Latin America. Almost every day I see a miss interpretation of comments or political situations in the press.
Our elected officers are badly misinformed.
(Both Reps and Dems.)
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HannibalBarca
May 27, 2007, 2:20 p.m.It doesn't matter who said what.I am a driller on an oil rig.Two years ago I worked in England.When I gave my notice that I was leaving the company brought in three negros to train as drillers,One worked with me and two on dayshift.One morning at shift change a dayshift roughneck asked me what he was suppost to do that day and I told him to go ask his digger,a Canadian term for a driller,the two dayshift negros heard this and whenI came back to work that night it took 45 minutes to sort it out as everyone was totaly emotional about the N word and the reality was it was never said but try getting that through every ones heads.At the end I was still able to go drinking with those three but the toolpush had a problem with me.The same is here with US/Iran,two diff ways of thinking and with US forcing an issue.Irans buisness is Irans buisness,US should stay out of it but I'm afraid that they won't and I expect something will happen when the Games begin on Wed.
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UBCONFUSE
May 27, 2007, 2:51 p.m.Rule # One in life. When someone says they are going to kill you, take them seriously and do unto them before they do unto you. Sooner or later, Israel will tell the US to take a hike and IAF aircraft, likely unmanned, will take out a huge percentage of Iranian bluster and bull sh1t. Then , it will be up to the Iranian people to run down and hang the religious police and their Mullah instigators for crimes against humanity.
Rule # Two; Never allow religious zealots to control access to guns. It always ends badly
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dheg
May 27, 2007, 3:14 p.m.It's nice to finally see an article that presents honest information and explains how it was derived rather then the misinterpretations and propaganda that so often is called news these days.
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ssinger107
May 27, 2007, 4:14 p.m.If the Palestinians would stop trying to blow up Israelis and kill people maybe there could be peace. However, it started in the ealy 1900's when Britain started sending Jews back to what was their home before the Roman occupation. It appears that unfortunately Arabs both American and everywhere else will stop at nothing to argue that they don't mean what they say. The Iranian president has said clearly what he wanted to say and anybody gullible enough to believe the point of this article should go back to grade school. He claims that Jews were never persecuted and there is no need to have a Jewish state. Why would Arabs and Persians who have been fighting with Jews for the last 3500 years say anything other than Palestine (named that by the Roman empire) should be occupied by Palestinian Arabs. I think it is sad that the Jews and the Arabs who originate from the same people can't get along. Stop denying you hate us and start finding a way to like us and live with us.
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Thinker22
May 27, 2007, 4:27 p.m.> He claims that Jews were never persecuted and there is no need to have a Jewish state.
Well, if he really means it I can see his logic... On the other hand, the Persians were never persecuted and therefore, there is no need for a Persian state, correct?
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Thinker22
May 27, 2007, 6:47 p.m.Can you show us the official Israeli promise "said last year" not to kill any Palestinians EVEN if the Palestinians will continue murdering Jews?
If you're a liar it does not mean that every other Jew is... and your name CATZ is a lie, too.
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Thinker22
May 27, 2007, 9:38 p.m.> WE,people who think dont start by calling others names, precisely because we THINK.
Well, you should make up your mind then. Either you THINK or you start by calling people names.
This is what you've started from:
> How can one trust jews at all? They would tell any lie in order to win, its in their culture to do it.
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thedoctori
May 27, 2007, 5:51 p.m.This article is pure apologist appeasement for the Islamo-fascists whom control Iran.
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el4sail
May 27, 2007, 6 p.m.The Jews have been persecuted for thousands of years.
They have been subjected to Pogroms and the holocaust.
Yes they have suffered unjustly.
The solution is not however to occupy someone elses land and persecute them.
the answer is to find a place for a Jewish state on land not currently occupied.
Palestine does not qualify since none of the people there persecuted the jews nor did they participate in the holocaust.
And Palestine was occupied for all the time afte the jews were scattered by the Romans.
If israel has a beef with anyone it is the holy Roman empire.
The Current government is in the vaticant.
Thye have plenty land and treasure to compensate the Jews.
Frankly I think purchasing 10,000 square miles of Eastern Oregon would suffice and meet the criteria for a settlemnt.
The Natives are gone and the place is virtually empty.
The Jews would be welcomed.
Perhaps the Nazis and catholics cooperated to insure the debt was never collected.
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rimbaud
May 27, 2007, 6:09 p.m.The main thing is these boogeymen are NOT out to get us and they still recognize us as the supreme military power in the world. They are just doing what they can to prevent getting bullied. Te reason they are so anxious to claim nuclear progress is they are under the delusion that it will prevent an attack by the loose-cannon in their midst, as they perceive it did for the North Koreans.
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rimbaud
May 27, 2007, 6:10 p.m.We are our own worst enemy! Why continue to keep Iran as an enemy?
Our objectives in the region, and Iran's, are closer not that far apart. We got rid of the Taliban for them (with their support) and we got rid of Saddam for them. They intercept AlQaeda on their way from Pakistan to Iraq. They offer rebuilding aid to Iraq (which we have begged the Europeans to do) and, until they made the grave mistake of provoking Israel, Hezbollah were on the right track of building an economic infrastructure in South Lebanon. The conflict is over who will have the greater residual influence in the region, and, in the long run, we will be better off if we ally with Iran: it will be a long time before we are trusted or liked in the region. (For one thing, if we ally with Iran, we can get hands-on their nuclear program and market safety technologies to them).
We prefer to ally ourselves with the Saudis!
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el4sail
May 27, 2007, 6:43 p.m.What do you want?
The Jews and their neighbors to escalate until one nukes the other.?
Or finding a solution which makes all satisfied.
If the Zionists left palestine and moved to Burns Oregon who would be unhappy?
in the area from Burns to Kalamath falls there are likely less than 3,000 inhabitants.
and twice the land mass of current Israel.
Make your paradise in a place that does not make a hell for anyone else.
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Thinker22
May 27, 2007, 6:55 p.m.> Make your paradise in a place that does not make a hell for anyone else.
I agree. Move the Palestinians out. It's them who makes the life a hell for Jordanians, Lebanese, Israelis and themselves. No Arab state wants them. Move them to Oregon tomorrow!
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moby1325
May 27, 2007, 8:53 p.m.If I was in charge of the navy I would bomb israel off the map they are the real trouble makers with bush as their errand boy then we need them out of congress and to cut their billions we give them which they send back to pay off our politicians and kick them out of the country so they don't control the media.
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el4sail
May 27, 2007, 9:06 p.m.How to define Stupid.
Make war on People who Have Oil (arabs) you need to protect land thieves (Israel) who have nothing you need.
Perhaps its just crazy..
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Mutainia
May 27, 2007, 9:10 p.m.I noticed the author of the article left out Iran's leader's frantic effort to get the bomb and try to bring back the 12th Imam who he believes disappeared down a well and can only reappear through a nuclear war against infidels. Or, would he say that's anti-Shiite propoganda?
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moby1325
May 27, 2007, 9:26 p.m.iran doesn't have the capacity to make a nuke for at least 10 years, Israel has lots of nukes and so does pakistan, If you do a little investigation the real connections to 911 come from those countrys
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Mutainia
May 27, 2007, 9:26 p.m.I noticed that Hamas is calling for Israel to be "whiped off the map". Something tells me they took the president of Iran's "miss-quote" as being legit.
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Ruggaboo
May 28, 2007, 12:43 a.m.Nice submission there ...Airbag.
Who comes up with this ant-semitic crap that continuously wafts up the charts like steam off a turd.
Mr. IloveJihad in Iran is one of the biggest thug terror monkeys to ever grab the reigns. Anybody who sides with these kidnapping, women beating seventh century, head loppers is a gawd damn pig.
Trying to justify the evils of the Mad Mullahs and their two bit thugocracy is right up there with trying to call the Muslim murder cults practitioners of the so called "religion of piece"
Hurry up, quick...somebody tape a giant "L" on this guy's forehead.
Losers...
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