I have watched countless mainstream media pundits, television evangelists, and hundreds of websites claiming that Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has threatened to “wipe Israel off the map”. Now before anyone goes any further, I’m not Islamic, nor do I read the Qur’an, and I’m not associated with, or have any part of “radical Islam”. I just like to make sure what I’m being fed is the truth. Now lets get by all the mainstream propaganda and take a close look at what Mr. Ahmadinejad said. In 2005, he gave a speech in Asia where he was quoted saying ” بايد از صفحه روزگار محو شود “. Now after doing some research, and some rough translating, I’ve learned a few things: half of what Mr. Ahmadinejad said were idioms, the other half were in no way saying “wipe Israel off the map”. The words ” از صفحه ” mean new page in Arabic. He is talking about the Zionist regime that is controlling Israel. He hopes the regime will collapse and be wiped off the pages of history, in other words. There are no known Persian idioms that would have allowed Mr. Ahmadinejad to possibly make that statement. This translation should have looked like this: “the regime occupying Israel/Jerusalem (een rezhim-e eshghalgar-e qods) must [dissapear/be wiped from] the page of time (bayad az safheh-ye ruzgar mahv shavad). Although this was nearly 4 years ago, there are still talks of a US/Israeli preventative attack on Iran. Israel has contemplated multiple times whether launching an air strike on Tehran’s nuclear facility was necessary.

So here is my question to you…What did the Iranian President say and what should Israel do about this situation?