antiwar.com — Somehow our media turned Ahmedinijad's benign statement "As the Soviet Union disappeared, the Zionist regime will also vanish and humanity will be liberated." into the menacing "Israel will be wiped out". Our media also conveniently ignored the statement by Iran's supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, that "We will never start a war."
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afruff23May 30, 2007
Your an idiot. That was stock footage and this was proved before to be stock footage.
kooftMay 31, 2007
Are you saying that this banner is conclusive proof positive that Iran is about to kill every Jew in the world? To me it looks like a poorly translated banner being used as propaganda by a militant organization.The US is supporting terrorists inside Iran. At the same time the US government is chanting 'bomb, bomb, bomb, Iran' and threatening to 'bomb them back to the stone age' or to 'turn Iran into a glass parking lot'. Does this mean that the US is seeking the genocide of Iranians? According to your logic it does.
jasonawilsonMay 31, 2007
This is the worst article I've ever read because of digg. The only major difference between the popular quote and the offered translation is that one is a direct statement while the other is an apparent paraphrase."Israel must be wiped off the map.""The Imam said this regime occupying Jerusalem must vanish from the page of time."I think "vanish from the page of time" is actually more hard-core than wiping off the map but fitting since Iran is so eager to rewrite history itself so that it doesn't include recorded events.In the book, "How to Win Friends and Influence People", Dale Carnegie suggests that if you have something bad to say and don't want to take the blame for it, just pretend (or actually) quote someone else and that will get your point across without you having to go into jeopardy yourself. Ahmadinejad either agrees with the quote or wants to appear that he agrees with it. Either way, it is an extreme and potentially dangerous viewpoint and I think it is important that the media gets this point across so that we can actually make intelligent decisions. I appreciate that most people don't want to go to war with Iran but that is no reason to hit yourself in the head with a hammer until you are a dumb-ass.
foopirataJun 3, 2007
Tsk tsk. Guess we couldn't expect intelligence out of the likes of you.You said "call a Jew a Jew".He said "call YOU a bigot".So the relationship here is Jew==Jew and you==bigot.You see, when you actually think, things are clearer.Idiot.
finnagainJun 16, 2007
He's not an idiot, but you are a lair. It was not stock footage. It was never proven to be. The person who made that claim, in fact, later admitted he lied.<a class="user" href="http://www.snopes.com/rumors/cnn.asp">http://www.snopes.com/rumors/cnn.asp</a>Liar.
emilesJun 22, 2007
@sabraguy:Ok, some people were approaching a sensible discussion here and now you are just being racist. Also, Hamas is not the same thing as "the Palestinians".
biaandgetitAug 22, 2007
One of the sadder things is that as far as persian populations, the three highest areas are Iran, America, and Israel.
wpi97Oct 18, 2007
"i simply disagree with the way the founding of the nation of israel was carried out, and don't think they deserve to live on the land that they are living on."Do you agree with the founding of the US, which involved extermination of indigenous tribes? Do you agree with the founding of Australia, which involved the extermination of native Tasmanians? Do you agree with the founding of England, which involved a counquest by the Normanns? Now compare these examples with the founding of Israel, which involved private purchase of land, a UN compromise, and a genocidal war launched against Israel on the day of its creation.So who deserves to live where?