http://www.stoptheaclu.com/2006/06/12/iran-warming-up-to-useu-proposal/ Beating Them With Their Own Sickle And Hammer Sun, 22 Nov 2009 18:50:16 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.2 hourly 1 http://www.stoptheaclu.com/2006/06/12/iran-warming-up-to-useu-proposal/comment-page-1/#comment-51896 Ninth State » On Nuclear Weapons and Persian Linguistics Mon, 12 Jun 2006 14:19:15 +0000 http://stoptheaclu.dreamhosters.com/archives/2006/06/12/iran-warming-up-to-useu-proposal/#comment-51896 [...] More at Stop the ACLU, Power Line. If you’re wondering exactly what Mahmoud Ahmadinejad meant by his desire to “wipe Israel off the map;” you’re not alone. The New York Times ran a piece trying to provide clarification regarding the translation of Ahmadinejad’s comments, including this from professor Juan Cole: “Ahmadinejad did not say he was going to wipe Israel off the map because no such idiom exists in Persian,” remarked Juan Cole, a Middle East specialist at the University of Michigan and critic of American policy who has argued that the Iranian president was misquoted. “He did say he hoped its regime, i.e., a Jewish-Zionist state occupying Jerusalem, would collapse.” Since Iran has not “attacked another country aggressively for over a century,” he said in an e-mail exchange, “I smell the whiff of war propaganda.” [...] [...] More at Stop the ACLU, Power Line. If you’re wondering exactly what Mahmoud Ahmadinejad meant by his desire to “wipe Israel off the map;” you’re not alone. The New York Times ran a piece trying to provide clarification regarding the translation of Ahmadinejad’s comments, including this from professor Juan Cole: “Ahmadinejad did not say he was going to wipe Israel off the map because no such idiom exists in Persian,” remarked Juan Cole, a Middle East specialist at the University of Michigan and critic of American policy who has argued that the Iranian president was misquoted. “He did say he hoped its regime, i.e., a Jewish-Zionist state occupying Jerusalem, would collapse.” Since Iran has not “attacked another country aggressively for over a century,” he said in an e-mail exchange, “I smell the whiff of war propaganda.” [...]

]]>