Not that Israeli Deputy Prime Minister Dan Meridor admitted Ahmadinejad had been misquoted?

I can't see the problem here. If the Deputy of Israeli Prime Minister himself admitted that Iranian president was misquoted, why are people still saying he was not? In other words Dan admits there have been claims in Israel that Iranian president threatened to wipe out Israel and that these claims are false.

@Hatmanon

Actually, according to B'tselem report, Israeli settlers control 42% of West Bank lands

http://www.haaretz.com/news/diplomacy-defense/righ...

Don't forget the wall/barrier that is annexing big share of West Bank to Israel.

It's just semantics. The phrasing is different; the idea is the same. Ahmadinejad has made his feelings toward Israel abundantly clear.

Najad was very clear when he attacked the right wing regime in Israel and wished it to go. He never mentioned the wipe out of Israeli people.

They deliberately misled the Israeli public and the world to mobilize them against Iran

Very cheap business

Ahmandinejad made himself perfectly clear as keynote speaker in Iran's official annual "The World without Zionism" conference: http://www.memri.org/report/en/0/0/0/0/0/0/1510.ht...

"'Very Soon, This Stain of Disgrace [i.e. Israel] Will Be Purged From the Center of the Islamic World – and This is Attainable'"

Notably he sees Israel as nothing more than an extension of a 300 year battle with "World of Arrogance [i.e. West]"

Scholars have written books based on research into their own words... about the Iranian leadership's messianic views, that when they start WWIII, that will bring the messiah... which will reap them rewards for being the ones to do it. That's not a question mark.

Israeli & world's question is, how to deal with it without triggering a war. For the sake of Iranians who merely wanted a vote & got beaten by their government. As well as for all of us.

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Check out the link & his words... it's much, much more obvious.... hard not to conclude... there are many prior conferences like that too.

1. I've never said "wipe out" so I have no reason to apologize for it.

2. It's not a misleading concept, even when used. Just a misquote of exact words.

3. THEY'VE NEVER DENIED IT (the wording intent) -- they've never complained about the mistranslation of those words.

3. Reading the link I gave. Once I saw many pages like that over many years from this Iranian government... it's more obvious. Hard to not conclude...

Add their own attacks on their own people. Funding of Hamas & Hizbollah. Green-lighting of Hizbollah's war at Israel. They're religious statements & furtive. Their view that Palestinians are dispensable for the sake of their goals. They're sending children to clear mine fields with keys to heaven for when they blew up. They deny the Holocaust, so they have manipulations to their goals.

About Dan.....

Dan Meridor: "Well, I have to disagree, with all due respect. You speak of Ahmadinejad. I speak of Khamenei, Ahmadinejad, Rafsanjani, Shamkhani. I give the names of all these people. They all come, basically ideologically, religiously, with the statement that Israel is an unnatural creature, it will not survive. They didn’t say, ’We’ll wipe it out,’ you’re right. But 'It will not survive, it is a cancerous tumor that should be removed,' was said just two weeks ago again."

Actually you are the one delibrately misleading people, because this is what Meridor actually said.

"Speaking to the Arab network, Meridor, who also serves as deputy PM, said Iran's leaders "all come basically ideologically, religiously with the statement that Israel is an unnatural creature, it will not survive." However, he added, "They didn't say 'we'll wipe it out,' but (rather) 'it will not survive, it is a cancerous tumor, it should be removed'. They repeatedly said 'Israel is not legitimate, it should not exist'."

http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-4216986,...

So it is easy to place half a quote out of context. But what Merinor actually said is that Iran may not have literally said "Israel should be wiped off the map" but they did say Israel should be removed and destroyed.

I dunno, but removing a country is much the same as wiping it off the map.

So I would hold my tongue Michardev, when it comes to delibrately misleading.

It is typical that the anti Israel brigade like to take one line of a whole interview, and take it out of context rather than look at everything that was said.

So since YOU are the one delibrately misleading by playing on semantics, where is YOUR apology Michardev?

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I have never said that Ahmadinejad said wipe Israel off the map. Not once have I ever said that.

And all I did was supplied the whole quote of which you refered to. I have not repeated any lies whatsoever, once again you are trying to mislead.

However, Iran is a country that is undertaking a programme to build nuclear weapons. They continuously use rhetoric calling for Israel to be removed and calling Israel a cancer, even of they don't literally say "wipe off the map". They also are known to fund and supply weapons to organizations such as Hamas and Hezbollah, who attack Israel on a regular basis. It is pretty clear what Iran mean s when they say Israel should be removed.

But you continue to play with semantics Michaerdev, if that makes you happy.

@Sameer

Those "expanding growing" settlement take up about 2% of the West Bank.

At this rate of "expansion" it will take 2250 years for Israel to take over the entire wear bank.

That must be the slowest "invasion" in history.

Dan Meridor was quite right but lets not spoil our pro Israeli friends who love to quote that misquote as its their main excuse for attacking Iran.

michardav don't waste your time getting Zionist to admit that they were wrong is like getting milk out of a stag.

Ahmedinejad was right on describing israel as a "cancerous state"

It started as tumors"kibbutz" that kept growing ,expanding ,invading and destroying the nearby cities,towns and villages of Palestine until 1948 when it controlled 80% of Palestine.

1967....again it started as tumors"settlements" that are expanding,growing,invading..........

@ Kevin.....What about Hatmontone......Is he correct as well........lol

Shay P and Short and Sweet are correct