[Peace-discuss] Letter to NY Times

[David Green]

Editor,

     This is in reference to the article “’Destroy
Israel’,” (Week in Review, 10/30). The article states:
“In a speech in Teheran, Iran's new president, Mahmoud
Ahmadinejad, said that Israel ‘must be wiped off the
map.’" According to the transcript linked to this
article, he said: “Our dear Imam said that the
occupying regime must be wiped off the map and this
was a very wise statement.” In 1941, Charles de Gaulle
might well have said that “the occupying regime needs
to be wiped off the map.”

     The title of the article was placed in single
quotes: ‘Destroy Israel.’ It is also important to note
that those two words do not appear in the transcript
linked to the article. Whatever one thinks of the
Iranian leader’s views and intentions, or of Israel’s
occupation of Palestine, it is important to begin with
an accurate rendering of what was said.

David Green




		
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