Switzerland has no master, my man. We are free people with free will. On the contrary United States is your master when it comes to you being called a naturalized Canadian citizen and therefore a contributor to NATO. My reference to clerical regime of Iran being war-mongering is simply because of Mr. Ahmedinejad's insatiable desire to "wipe Israel off the map". Any sane person would call such a leader as a sabre-rattler who desires the elimination of another sovereign country with which it doesn't share any borders, holds no territorial disputes or disagreements and yet aims its annihilation.
Palestinian-Israeli conflict is their internal matter and in no way is it affecting Iranian territory or government. Both you and I know that these very words have been mentioned in international newspapers and worldwide sources. Mr. Ahmedinejad and his government's problem is the same as many sympathizers of a "theocratic global union" mention here; police other country's matters on religious grounds. This is not a two-way conflict but one way aggression.
In no statement have I mentioned that Iranian people are war-mongers. It is just their clerical government that is a problem to their own public.
yeap, you're a fox news zombie alright
stopped reading right after you said the "wipe off the map" myth
When Ahmadinejad was speaking a translator by the name of Arash Norouzi translated his comment as "Israel should be wiped off the map" and American media couldn't be more glad. They know that this is the wrong translation but millions of people need convincing, people like you.
This was his comment.
"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 Persian 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)
