According to Cole, "Ahmadinejad did not say he was going to wipe Israel off the map because no such idiom exists in Persian" and "He did say he hoped its regime, i.e., a Jewish-Zionist state occupying Jerusalem, would collapse."[1]
I think he was saying that he hoped for a better regime that will make peace with the palestinians.
I do not think that he is that dumb since he seems highly intellectual and Media misinterprets what he says.
2007-01-08
08:54:19
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Juan Cole is a professor of middle east studies at university of Michigan.
2007-01-08
08:56:48 ·
update #1
One of the reason that media hates him is because he calls for the Palestinians to be given their rights.
he did say that he is not against the Israeli people just against the policies of the regime.
2007-01-08
09:26:44 ·
update #2
One of my Irani friend said that Ahmadinejad used the word regime rather than state of Israel.
2007-01-08
09:45:44 ·
update #3
Human rights of the Palestinian people are as important as the rights of Israeli people.
2007-01-08
09:50:52 ·
update #4
Joseph Mahal you have it wrongits Israel that attacked and destroyed Lebanon and one woman of my interfaith peace group was personally injured during the the attacks the first time.
2007-01-08
10:22:22 ·
update #5
What I meant to say is that he is ruthless and territory grabing like Kublai.
2007-01-09
05:50:25 ·
update #6