"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."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mahmoud_Ahmadinejad_and_Israel
And the country that was wiped off the map is called Palestine.
Here is that map:-
http://zionismexplained.org/map/landmap1.jpg
2007-01-15 05:50:32 · 5 answers · asked by Ringo G. 4 in Politics & Government ➔ Politics
Oh stop it. Logic and facts confuse some of these people. Fox News tells them otherwise. You are just being very cruel to them.
2007-01-15 05:56:01 · answer #1 · answered by Perplexed 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
That wikipedia article you just quoted actually translated the phrase like this "The Imam said that this regime occupying Jerusalem (een rezhim-e ishghalgar-e qods) must [vanish from] the page of time (bayad az safheh-ye ruzgar mahv shavad).[8]"
Meaning, that the state of Israel must vanish from the page of time, sounds pretty close to wiped off the map to me.
2007-01-15 13:57:28 · answer #2 · answered by John S 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Do you speak Farsi? I do. Hint, it's not a Zionist lie; it's a genocidal comment.
2007-01-15 13:57:21 · answer #3 · answered by John 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Perhaps if every nation tended to its own affairs, and not those of its neighbors, the world would be a happier and safer place in which to live.
2007-01-15 13:54:23 · answer #4 · answered by Jackson Leslie 5 · 0⤊ 1⤋
hey watch it there. you provided facts, thats not fair for the people who have no clue what your talking about.
2007-01-15 13:54:57 · answer #5 · answered by sydb1967 6 · 2⤊ 3⤋