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Press TV:Alright, you just mentioned Israel and you called it the Zionist regime. A lot of controversy surrounds this issue. On the eve of your trip, the Jewish lobby is at work protesting, but behind the scenes stronger hands are at work to lobby each and every important politician in New York for both sanctions and a possible military attack against Iran. I want to know about this issue and the controversy of Israel being wiped off the map. A lot of controversy is surrounding that… was it a mistranslation, not a mistranslation? Mike Wallace had this interview with you a couple of years back. One part of it, a major part of it, was edited out. Your idea on the destruction of the state of Israel and Israel should be wiped off the map? The part you talked about democracy and referendum?
Ahmadinejad:We said we do not accept this regime and the solution that we are presenting is a humanitarian solution. It is a very clear solution. We are saying that the Palestinians should decide their destiny themselves; they should choose their own political system. What we are saying is very clear. We believe that the people whose ancestors have lived in that land and own the land although they have been deported and expelled and are under occupation, we are saying that they are the ones….
Press TV:So you did not threaten to wipe Israel off the map as an Iranian leader? That we will wipe Israel off the map?
Ahmadinejad:No. We say that the people of Palestine should have rights and when the people of Palestine exercise this right, this will happen. Where is the Soviet Union? The Soviet Union has been wiped off the map. What happened to the Soviet Union? The decision of the people, the vote of the people. When the people of the Soviet Union, the Russian people, were allowed to decide to take charge of their destiny, the Soviet Union disappeared.
Dennis Kucinich and Ron Paul continue to show themselves among the few in Congress with any integrity and backbone. They declined to go along with a resolution charging Iranian President Mahmud Ahmadinejad with incitement to genocide, given his alleged call for Israel to be 'wiped off the face of the map.'
As most of my readers know, Ahmadinejad did not use that phrase in Persian. He quoted an old saying of Ayatollah Khomeini calling for 'this occupation regime over Jerusalem" to "vanish from the page of time.' Calling for a regime to vanish is not the same as calling for people to be killed. Ahmadinejad has not to my knowledge called for anyone to be killed.
If Ahmadinejad is a genocidal maniac who just wants to kill Jews, then why are there 20,000 Jews in Iran with a member of parliament in Tehran? Couldn't he start at home if that was what he is really about?
Originally posted by anotherdad
reply to post by mind is the universe
Why has my questions not been answered?
Iran threatens israel, see prior posts.
5:45 PM my time, going home. Not running. Will check back Monday and reply.
Maybe by then you will have answered my questions.
Originally posted by anotherdad
reply to post by mind is the universe
Why has my questions not been answered?
Iran threatens israel, see prior posts.
5:45 PM my time, going home. Not running. Will check back Monday and reply.
Maybe by then you will have answered my questions.
Originally posted by anotherdad
reply to post by mind is the universe
Why has my questions not been answered?
Iran threatens israel, see prior posts.
5:45 PM my time, going home. Not running. Will check back Monday and reply.
Maybe by then you will have answered my questions.
Originally posted by dooper
reply to post by anotherdad
Hey, it's not a problem. I've ignored fools all my life, and it's fun to get them to state their positions so that others can laugh too. They rile up so easily, they lose their temper, and then their irrationality impedes rational thinking. It's a technique we used against our enemies. We had them so furious that we could steer them into their own destruction. It was a gas!
And yes, I think M is from the island, but I think he's an import as no "I" man I ever met before is such a woosey. Normally they are spirited, rational, and love a good fight. I have to love them as I have some of that blood flowing in my veins too.
That's OK though. Cowards ever hide their own shame behind noble concepts of "statesmanship," "negotiation," "peace," "goodwill," "understanding," and a higher calling. But as I've said before, that white stuff in chikenschitt is chikenschitt too. And you can call it intellectualism all you want. Just take a bite.
Originally posted by dooper
reply to post by anotherdad
It's a technique we used against our enemies. We had them so furious that we could steer them into their own destruction. It was a gas!
Ahmadinejad denies being an anti-Semite (why deny it if he supposedly glories in it?); points out that he supports Jewish representation in the Iranian parliament; and compares his call for an end to the Zionist regime ruling over Jerusalem to the Western call for the dissolution of the old Soviet Union. Was Ronald Reagan inciting to genocide when he called for an end of the Soviet regime?
In 2006 Ahmadinejad said;No.I am not anti-Semitic.Like all other human beings,Jews are respected. And,by the way,there are Muslims and Christians and Jews among the Palestinian people.We say the people of Palestine should choose.We do not say that it should be the Palestinian Muslims.For they lived in peace and harmony in the past.But then Britain came over and,with colonialist goals,took control and then handed it over to the Zionists.And the problem started.Let the people choose and see what will happen.
Originally posted by ufoorbhunter
reply to post by magicmushroom
Logic? Iran is an idealogical state that threatens Israel and the west on a daily basis. It is simply not in my interest for Iran to get its finger on the button. How can any sane minded person living in the west want Iran (a state sponsor of international terror) to obtain nukes? It's crazy...........
An Iranian presidential aide has proposed two conditions Washington would be required to fulfill before holding direct talks with Tehran.
On Saturday, Kalhor said Tehran would accept 'repentance' on behalf of the US government toward the Iranian people.
"Negotiations would be rational if the US moves out of the Middle East and the US government gives up its widespread support for the Zionist regime," he said.