"Israel must be wiped off the map." Oh Really?


"Israel must be wiped off the map."

The problem is, even though the so-called quote was widely reported in the
propaganda organs of Western media and to this day is parroted on television, in
magazines and newspapers by neocon ideologues with a pro-war agenda, Ahmadinejad
never actually said any such thing.

In an article entitled 'Wiped off the Map' ? The Rumor of the Century, Farsi speaker
Arash Norouzi painstakingly corrected the mistranslation of Ahmadinejad?s statement:
?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. This is a vastly significant
distinction, as one cannot wipe a regime off the map. Ahmadinejad does not even
refer to Israel by name, he instead uses the specific phrase "rezhim-e ishghalgar-e
qods" (regime occupying Jerusalem).

?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. Yet we are led to believe that Iran's president threatened to "wipe
Israel off the map," despite never having uttered the words "map," "wipe out" or
even "Israel.? ??

?The full quote translated directly to English: "The Imam said this regime occupying
Jerusalem must vanish from the page of time." Word by word translation: Imam
(Khomeini) ghoft (said) een (this) rezhim-e (regime) ishghalgar-e (occupying) qods
(Jerusalem) bayad (must) az safheh-ye ruzgar (from page of time) mahv shavad (vanish
from).?

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