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August 07, 2006
| Words And Deeds | Palestine/Middle East |
Much was made of Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's publicly quoting Ayatollah Khomeini who said that Israel should be wiped from the pages of history (or, as it was widely mis-translated "wiped off the map"). Sticks and stones, though; it's actions that really count.
The difference between Ahmadinejad and [Israeli PM] Olmert is that the Iranian president is a blowhard. The one who had practical plans to wipe a country off the map was Olmert.
He's got a point.
Posted by Jonathan at August 7, 2006 09:31 PM
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Actually, according to Cole's translation, what Ahmadinejad said was "This occupation regime over Jerusalem must vanish from the page of time." (http://www.juancole.com/2006/05/ahmadinejad-as-w.html)
He wasn't calling for wiping Israel off the map, or even the page of history--he was calling for regime change. (Although we know that regime change can come pretty close to wiping a country off the map--look at Iraq 2003 and the US 2000.)
Posted by: Bob at August 8, 2006 10:41 AM