President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad speech question?

Question

When the Iranian president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said he wants Israel wiped off the map, did he mean that he wishes the Jews exterminated or did he mean that Israel should cease to exist?

Answer 1

The Jewish State in the Middle East is a sick fanatic invention. It will collapse by itself sooner than you expect. It is against human mindset evolution

Answer 2

Just for Israel to cease to Exist. He has said the West many times that he respects the beliefs of the Jewish people. but of course the News we get here in the West is One Sided in favor to the Zionist

Answer 3

oct 27 2005 -- CNN

TEHRAN, Iran (CNN) -- Iran's new president has repeated a remark from a former ayatollah that Israel should be "wiped out from the map," insisting that a new series of attacks will destroy the Jewish state, and lashing out at Muslim countries and leaders that acknowledge Israel.

The remarks by Mahmoud Ahmadinejad -- reported by Islamic Republic News Agency -- coincide with a month-long protest against Israel called "World without Zionism" and with the approach of Jerusalem Day.

World without Zionism is a nationwide event the planners intend to hold annually, and Ahmadinejad made the remarks during a meeting with protesting students at the Interior Ministry.

Ahmadinejad quoted a remark from Iran's Ayatollah Khomeini, the founder of Iran's Islamic revolution, who said that Israel "must be wiped out from the map of the world."

The president then said: "And God willing, with the force of God behind it, we shall soon experience a world without the United States and Zionism," according to a quote published by IRNA.

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another view

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The Guardian's Jonathan Steele cites four different translations, from professors to the BBC to the New York Times and even pro-Israel news outlets, in none of those translations is the word "map" used. The closest translation to what the Iranian President actually said is, "The regime occupying Jerusalem must vanish from the page of time," or a narrow relative thereof. In no version is the word "map" used or a context of mass genocide or hostile military action even hinted at.

The acceptance of the word "map" seemingly originated with the New York Times, who later had to back away from this false translation. The BBC also wrongly used the word and, in comments to Steele, later accepted their mistake but refused to issue a retraction.

"The fact that he compared his desired option - the elimination of "the regime occupying Jerusalem" - with the fall of the Shah's regime in Iran makes it crystal clear that he is talking about regime change, not the end of Israel. As a schoolboy opponent of the Shah in the 1970's he surely did not favor Iran's removal from the page of time. He just wanted the Shah out," writes Steele.

"It's important to note that the "quote" in question was itself a quote, writes Arash Norouzi, "they are the words of the late Ayatollah Khomeini, the father of the Islamic Revolution. Although he quoted Khomeini to affirm his own position on Zionism, the actual words belong to Khomeini and not Ahmadinejad. Thus, Ahmadinejad has essentially been credited (or blamed) for a quote that is not only unoriginal, but represents a viewpoint already in place well before he ever took office."

Professor Juan Cole concurs, arguing, "Now, some might say, "So he didn't say, 'wipe off the map,' he said 'erase from the page.' What's the difference? Anyway he's saying he wants to get rid of Israel. Ahmadinejad was not making a threat, he was quoting a saying of Khomeini and urging that pro-Palestinian activists in Iran not give up hope -- that the occupation of Jerusalem was no more a continued inevitability than had been the hegemony of the Shah's government. Whatever this quotation from a decades-old speech of Khomeini may have meant, Ahmadinejad did not say that 'Israel must be wiped off the map' with the implication that phrase has of n**i-style extermination of a people. He said that the occupation regime over Jerusalem must be erased from the page of time."

Answer 4

the skinny douche said money-lovah country should vanish from the pages of time....which makes no sense cuz israel aint neva been in time magazine.

in all honesty, I believe that Iran....a little too much today cuz im ******* tired n my legs are sore.

get it? get it lmaaoooooooooo

bkjbkjb

Answer 5

His hate and religious intolerance is well known and very clear to me.

He has been accused of hoping for the twelfth Inman.  I think he believes he is.

Answer 6

President Ahmadinejad didn't say that, he said that he believes that the Zionist regime in Israel would fall like the Soviet Union fell. People are free to believe whatever they want, there's nothing outrageous about what he said, he was just expressing an opinion.

Answer 7

I think he meant both.

And to that I say.

For some reason, Jews/Israelis are historically somewhat 'sensitive' to threats of extermination, particularly when coming from countries that have Raving Lunatics leading them, and have  the capability many times over to carry it out.  

The reason for this sensitivity still remains a mystery to the world  !!!

Answer 8

Jews exterminated ?

there are Jews living in Iran !

and he said the occupying regime should change

even till now there are many UN resolutions against Israel

that Israel is not willing to comply with the whole world wishes

but yet they expect Iran to stop their peaceful nuclear power program with UN sanctions lol

Israel should be kicked out of the United Nations

since their basic belief is we are Gods chosen people

others are people god created to be our servants