Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and Israel
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Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and Israel
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IRIB News Department News Headlines 2005/10/26
Ahmadinejad: The Imam said that this regime occupying Jerusalem must vanish from the page of time
The notion that Ahmadinejad called for Israel to be "wiped off the map" was due to an erroneous mistranslation, and the line was subsequently repeated in Western media and perhaps most notably by the USA administration for political purposes.
See Wikipedia section on the mistranslation here:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mahmoud_Ahmadinejad_and_Israel#.22Wiped_off_the_map.22_or_.22Vanish_from_the_pages_of_time.22_translation
He described Israel as a threat to the entire region.
Ahmadinejad claimed that Israel is used as an excuse to prevent Iran and other countries from getting access to science and technology.
He reiterated an argument he has made previously that while the Western powers admit they have killed a large number of Jews, the Palestinian people should not be made to suffer because of it.
In a much-quoted statement, he compared the Palestinian resistance to a young, healthy tree and the regime of the Jewish state of Israel to an old dying tree.
2005 "The World Without Zionism" Conference address
Islamic Republic of Iran Broadcasting IRIB News Network reported the following statements by Ahmadinejad on their websitehttp://www.iribnews.ir/Full_en.asp?news_id=200247 :IRIB News Department News Headlines 2005/10/26
Ahmadinejad: The Imam said that this regime occupying Jerusalem must vanish from the page of time
The notion that Ahmadinejad called for Israel to be "wiped off the map" was due to an erroneous mistranslation, and the line was subsequently repeated in Western media and perhaps most notably by the USA administration for political purposes.
See Wikipedia section on the mistranslation here:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mahmoud_Ahmadinejad_and_Israel#.22Wiped_off_the_map.22_or_.22Vanish_from_the_pages_of_time.22_translation
2006 International Qods Conference address
In April 2006, Ahmadinejad gave the opening address to the "Third International Qods Conference supporting the rights of the Palestinian people" sponsored by Iran and held in Tehran.Content of the speech
In the speech he spoke at length about what he considers the injustices of the establishment and maintenance of Israel's Jewish regime.- How long can this situation last and be tolerated? When Imam Ali, Commander of the Faithful, heard that an anklet was forcefully removed from the feet of a Jewish woman by the invaders in one of the frontier cities under his rule, he said, "If a man dies from grief because of this act, he should not be reprimanded."
- Today, even the children are not spared and are targeted by their bullets. Palestinian men and women are abducted and tortured in their fearsome prisons. People are shot dead in schools, on the streets and at markets.
He described Israel as a threat to the entire region.
- The existence of the Zionist regime is tantamount to imposition of an unending and unrestrained threat so that none of the nations and Islamic countries of the region and beyond can feel secure from its threat. The closer these nations are to the epicenter of this threat, the more threatened they feel. The people of Palestine are at the very core of such a threat. They have not been able to spend a day with peace of mind for the past sixty years. Three generations of sons and daughters of Palestinians have lived and are presently living under these circumstances. The peoples of Egypt, Jordan, Syria, Lebanon and the entire Middle East are essentially under similar situation.
Ahmadinejad claimed that Israel is used as an excuse to prevent Iran and other countries from getting access to science and technology.
- The bullying powers use different excuses to prevent transfer of science and technology and progress of the nations of our region.
- They regard our advancement as a threat to the corrupt Zionist regime. They do not allow the countries of the region to tread on the path to progress and advancement.
- They even oppose indigenous technologies in the Islamic countries and interpret any scientific advancement as a threat to the security of Qods occupier regime.
He reiterated an argument he has made previously that while the Western powers admit they have killed a large number of Jews, the Palestinian people should not be made to suffer because of it.
- Some Western powers admit that they have killed a large part of Jewish population in Europe and founded the occupied regime in order to put right the wrong they had committed.
- With deference to all nations and followers of divine religions, we are asking if this atrocity is true, then why the people of the region should pay for it by occupation of Palestinian lands and unending suppression of Palestinian people, by homelessness of millions of Palestinians, by destruction of their cities and rural areas and agricultural lands.
- Why should they pay by fire, bullets and imposition of forces? And why should they pay by tolerating occupation of Islamic lands? Are the consequences of the establishment of this regime less than the Holocaust you are claiming?
- If there are doubts regarding the Holocaust, there is really no doubt regarding Palestinian disaster and Holocaust. The Holocaust in Palestine has persisted for more than sixty years.
In a much-quoted statement, he compared the Palestinian resistance to a young, healthy tree and the regime of the Jewish state of Israel to an old dying tree.
- The young tree of resistance in Palestine is blooming and blooms of faith and desire for freedom are flowering.
- The Zionist regime is a decaying and crumbling tree that will fall with a storm. Today even the inhabitants of the occupied Palestine, especially the African and Asian settlers are living in [p]ain, poverty and discontent.