Posted on 10/27/2005 3:45:40 PM PDT by markedmannerf
ran's president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has once again caused a planetary stir with rhetoric that has been reported as calling for Israel to be precise, Mr. Ahmadinejad used the words Zionist regime to be wiped off the map at a youth seminar in Tehran. Ahmadinejad's pronouncement was both naive and unwise when measured in terms of international politics. However, it is something quite different than the credible threat it was portrayed to be in the international press. Moreover, the statement does nothing to increase any actual danger to Israel from Iran, despite the extreme reaction shown around the world.
Americans, Israelis and Europeans should take a deep breath and examine both the statement and Ahmadinejad's current standing as Iran's president. Once the complete context of these remarks is understood, the pronouncement can be seen for the offensive puffery it is.
Westerners must understand that Ahmadinejad was not the first choice of the clerical establishment in Tehran in the Iranian presidential elections last summer. He raised uncomfortable questions about the clerics' commitment to the ideals of the Revolution of 1978-79. Ahmadinejad was in step with the Iranian public with regard to the revolution's ideals concerning redistribution of income and attention to the needs of the lower economic sectors of the population. These economic issues had increasingly been ignored by the clerics, who grew richer and richer to the chagrin of the Iranian man on the street. This is what propelled Ahmadinejad into office.
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American apologist for anti-Israel, nuke-lusting mad mullahs is a dirty job, but we can always find a liberal prof who's more than willing to give it the old college try.
Dude, I understand . . .
Also here: UN DEBATES MEANING OF WORD "WIPE"
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1510204/posts
"Hmmmm...substitute "1938" for "2005"..."Germany" for "Iran"....and
"Europe" for "Israel" and what do you have?"
Never forget, the Iran rodents must be hit very very very hard. Genocide can be a two way street Mr Iran.
Herr Hitler didn't really mean those hateful things he
said about Poland, really.
Correct. It just blatantly states the danger they've long been in. The guy with the gun to their head, cocked, with finger on trigger finally said, "I'm going to shoot you".
Apologetic is a perfect description of this garbage. Rationalization is what it is. When this headline shares page 28A with another headline that says "Iran Continues Nuclear Development", I think its time for somebody to take care of this problem. The Israelis won't stand by and let Iran get nukes.
That's exactly what they were saying of Hitler all through the 1930s.
And Hitler poses no threat to Czechoslovakia or Austria, despite his promises that he will take them to reunite Germans living abroad.
The writer is a moron.
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