Liberals Are Right, Ahmadinejad Didn't Say He Would Wipe Israel Off the Map

The president of Iran, whom many affectionately refer to as "Imajihad", gets a lot of heat for the allegation that he called for Israel to be "wiped off the map". It goes without saying that, clamoring to their Middle Eastern patron, Uncle Choms the world over quickly looked for a reason why the West must be mistaken, there must be another, ulterior meaning. I mean sure, they agreed with Imajihad that Israel needed to be wiped off the map, but that was far too direct, far too brazen for an Iran of 2005 before it had successfully manipulated Hezbollah into a war against the Jewish state that the West was not ready to stand up against. After all, the War on Terror is only a War on some factions of al-Qaeda, not people who launch rockets into kindergartens and call it a day.

The Uncle Choms were particularly happy when they came across a linguist that could translate exactly what it was that Imajihad had to say, and surprisingly it had nothing to do with anything as devastating as wiping Israel off the map. So what exactly did he say? Well, at its barest he said:

"Imam ghoft een rezhim-e ishghalgar-e qods bayad az safheh-ye ruzgar mahv shavad."

I don't know about you, but I don't speak Farsi, so he lost me after Imam. But I have it on good authority that it doesn't translate at all to "Israel must be wiped off the map." Which could be good news, and I can buy into that because there is no mention of Israel in the exact quote. Instead, he allegedly stated, "The Imam said this regime occupying Jerusalem must vanish from the page of time".

Oh, that makes me feel better, Imajihad didn't want us to listen to his reaffirmation that the region of Israel should be wiped off the face of the map, it's much better realizing that he's simply reaffirming Ayatollah Khomeini's genocidal promises against the Jews. Somehow we're supposed to feel better that an entire region of people aren't going to be wiped out, just the ethnicity "occupying Jerusalem".

A plethora of websites have sprung up across the internet that stand up for the insane, Mahdi-pandering president, such as The Information Clearing House that deftly swooped in to stand up for the President. Naturally so did conspiracy theorist website Prison Planet, a website devoted to unraveling the truth of the "police state" the United States has entered since 9/11, while conveniently omitting that both citizens still rarely ever see a Humvee much less actual military law enforcement.
But in their zeal to point out the translation error, they are overlooking the fact that they're in essence going "No no, he's not saying let's wipe out Israel, let's just genocide the Jews there, that'd be much more preferable."

There should be something telling about the fact that these were spoken by a man who publicly denies the Holocaust and attended/hosted an anti-Zionist Conference. After all, as the Uncle Choms have proven, it's okay to want to utterly annihilate a race of people and deny them a homeland (as anti-Zionism literally translates into wanting to deny the Jews a homeland) as long as you promise that it's not off a map, just for all of time.

Pleasant, yes?