Wipe Israel from the
map?
by Rudo de Ruijter,
Independent researcher,
18 September 2008
"Khomeini said this regime occupying Jerusalem must vanish
from (the) page of time." This sentence, pronounced by newly
elected President Ahmadinejad on October 25th, 2005, has been
translated into "Israel must be wiped off the map". Since then
this translation has been cited thousands of times by
journalists and politicians. In short, President Ahmadinejad
spoke about the expectation, that like the Soviet regime and
the regime of Saddam Hussein, the Zionist regime in Jerusalem
would also end. And who launched this false translation? No,
not Iran's ennemies. According to Iranians who have
investigated the matter, it was Iran's own Islamic Republic
News Agency (IRNA) that first used this phrasing in the
English version of some of their news releases. [1] And as
Western journalists do not speak farsi, they simply copied the
little sentence from IRNA. Nobody verified. IRNA really needs
a better translator :-)
However, for
the Western war propaganda is does not matter where the little
sentence came from. If you repeat it often enough, people will
believe it anyway. But here too, facts speak a different
language: Iran didn't start a war since more than 1,000 years.
Source:
[1] Wiping
Israel from the map...
http://www.campaigniran.org/casmii/index.php?q=node/1215
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