I find it pretty interesting that Ahmadinejad is pretty much universally considered to have talked of 'wiping Israel off the map'. There are some pretty erudite voices suggesting he was mistranslated. On.......wait for it diem..Wikipedia, (something i value deeply as a prelimenary portal into a subject).There are suggestions that the very concept of wiping a country off the map doesn't really translate to Persian chat. If you can get over your encyclopedia cooties, diem, i suggest you check out the 'wiped off the map' or 'vanish from the pages of time' translation, on the link i'll post below, it makes for interesting reading. Sorry i didn't suggest it to you CrackerJax, but i figured that despite your shortcomings at the synapse, that you would naturally want to have a nosey, making it pointless mentioning it.
Don't hear much of substance coming from you regarding Israeli action in Gaza? I do however detect a steam of pish, namely talk of the virtues of when de Arab go kaboom, and the propensity to turn suffering people into pawns. It is easy to play the game and wrap one's identity around one's ability to play it. To dance with this illusion is much of adult human bullshit life.
Tonight in Gaza there will be life! Life like most of us have never known. There will be the horrible things we find it so convenient to ignore, but there will be unfathomable love. There will be self knowledge, children will be given the most imaginative and gentle explanations conceived by people rendered selfless by concern for them. And you know what there will be... death, big and little chunks of it all over the place. Sweet death for a lot of Gazans.
The thing i find most amusing is the complete lack of identification with the Palestinian people who are being mutilated to the slap tune of IDF high fives. There is profound military disparity here. It's still not enough, they have to use(let me say it again) depleted uranium(eh?) phosphorous(an another eh?) to do their work? They're doing it with such heavy hearts of course, that's how they say their hearts are, so it must be true. Look at the proportion of women and children in the body count. They need phosphorous sprinkled on them like they need a hole in the head; this is actually one context where a hole in the head would be the preferred option.. 'up to 100% of 2009's Gazan women and children preferred a hole in the head to "just chillen" with their dead relatives and horrific terminal chemical burns, in this, our relevant survey'. . Israel is not off of any kind of hook: despite their denial of access to the press to Gaza, this is a conflict with fresh media updates, has been for a while. Israeli abuses have been heavily documented.
I am not in any way suggesting Hamas is a useful gang at all. Or that what Ahmadinejad said wasn't fired through with hate for Israel, but we owe it to ourselves to at least know what he said. I don't trust any of these motherfuckers, doesnae mean i should bomb them
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mahmoud_Ahmadinejad_and_Israel