Of course Israel would be the one to know all about Nazism and "messianic apocalyptic cults", the conquered do imitate the conqueror after all, as
Caesar said.
I'd never thought I'd say this but... congratulations New York Times.
You've done what no other mainstream media network had so far, presented a rational, unsensationalist and unapologetic view of Israel in the context
of greater Middle Eastern foreign policies that have shaped the region in recent dones.
Benjamin Netanyahu 2009? Try again. These words were in fact uttered by another Israeli prime minister (and now Israeli president), Shimon Peres,
in 1996. Four years earlier, in 1992, he’d predicted that Iran would have a nuclear bomb by 1999.
You can’t accuse the Israelis of not crying wolf. Ehud Barak, now defense minister, said in 1996 that Iran would be producing nuclear weapons by
2004.
This “messianic apocalyptic cult” in Tehran is, of course, the very same one with which Israel did business during the 1980’s, when its
interest was in weakening Saddam Hussein’s Iraq. That business — including sales of weapons and technology — was an extension of Israeli
policy toward Iran under the shah.
Ouch. That blew a nice hole in Netanyahu's foot.
So Iran is an enemy, only so long as it doesn't serve our selfish, foreign policy interests to weaken absolutely everyone in the entire Middle
East?
That's eerily reminiscent of Nazi attitudes towards Russia prior to a bloody and prolonged conflict known as World War Two.
It’s also the same “messianic apocalyptic cult” that has survived 30 years, ushered the country from the penury of the 1980-88 Iran-Iraq
war, shrewdly extended its power and influence, cooperated with America on Afghanistan before being consigned to “the axis of evil,” and kept
its country at peace in the 21st century while bloody mayhem engulfed neighbors to east and west and Israel fought two wars.
Again all this is kept under wraps in the main stream media.
You'll never hear of that fact that Iran has not instigated a conflict within the last century or more, or the fact that Iran offered the United
States cooperation in securing Afghan borders in 2001 to prevent the Taliban escaping.
Or the fact that Ali Khamenei, Iran's Supreme Leader, condemned the 9/11 attacks:
“Killing of people, in any place and with any kind of weapons…. carried out by any organization, country or individual is condemned. ... It
makes no difference whether such massacres happen in Hiroshima, Nagasaki, Qana, Sabra, Shatila, Deir Yassin, Bosnia, Kosovo, Iraq or in New York and
Washington.
Or the fact that
Mahmoud Ahmadinejad never said he wanted to "Wipe Israel off the Map":
So what did Ahmadinejad actually say? To quote his exact words in farsi:
"Imam ghoft een rezhim-e ishghalgar-e qods bayad az safheh-ye ruzgar mahv shavad."
That passage will mean nothing to most people, but one word might ring a bell: rezhim-e. It is the word "Regime", pronounced just like the English
word with an extra "eh" sound at the end. Ahmadinejad did not refer to Israel the country or Israel the land mass, but the Israeli regime.
So this raises the question.. what exactly did he want "wiped from the map"? The answer is: nothing. That's because the word "map" was never
used. The Persian word for map, "nagsheh", is not contained anywhere in his original farsi quote, or, for that matter, anywhere in his entire
speech. Nor was the western phrase "wipe out" ever said.
The full quote translated directly to English:
"The Imam said this regime occupying Jerusalem must vanish from the page of time".
All you will hear is non-stop, round the clock, fear-mongering.
