Ahmadinejad Sends A Futile Letter
By Kurt Nimmo
Iran’s president Ahmadinejad never said Israel should be "wiped off the map," although Shimon Peres did say "the president of Iran should remember that Iran can also be wiped off the map." As Anneliese Fikentscher and Andreas Neumann note, Ahmadinejad was deliberately misquoted as part of an ongoing propaganda campaign against Iran by the neocons, in particular the Middle East Media Research Institute (MEMRI), founded by Yigal Carmon, who served time in Israeli military intelligence, and Meyrav Wurmser, a neocon that had a hand in crafting the neocon document "A Clean Break: A New Strategy for Securing the Realm" presented to then Israeli president, Benjamin Netanyahu. MEMRI is known for selectively quoting and distorting Arab and Muslim news reports and editorials.
Shimon Peres was simply using the distortions of Ahmadinejad’s comments to make excuses for the long-held Israeli and later neocon plan to not necessarily "wipe off the map" Islamic countries, but rather reduce them through "Lebanonization," or balkanization, a plan sketched out by Oded Yinon, an Israeli diplomat attached to the Foreign Ministry. Oded Yinon’s "A Strategy for Israel in the 1980s" document, according to historian Stephen Sniegoski, "undoubtedly reflected high-level thinking in the Israeli military and intelligence establishment. The article called for Israel to bring about the dissolution and fragmentation of the Arab states into a mosaic of ethnic groupings."
By Kurt Nimmo
Iran’s president Ahmadinejad never said Israel should be "wiped off the map," although Shimon Peres did say "the president of Iran should remember that Iran can also be wiped off the map." As Anneliese Fikentscher and Andreas Neumann note, Ahmadinejad was deliberately misquoted as part of an ongoing propaganda campaign against Iran by the neocons, in particular the Middle East Media Research Institute (MEMRI), founded by Yigal Carmon, who served time in Israeli military intelligence, and Meyrav Wurmser, a neocon that had a hand in crafting the neocon document "A Clean Break: A New Strategy for Securing the Realm" presented to then Israeli president, Benjamin Netanyahu. MEMRI is known for selectively quoting and distorting Arab and Muslim news reports and editorials.
Shimon Peres was simply using the distortions of Ahmadinejad’s comments to make excuses for the long-held Israeli and later neocon plan to not necessarily "wipe off the map" Islamic countries, but rather reduce them through "Lebanonization," or balkanization, a plan sketched out by Oded Yinon, an Israeli diplomat attached to the Foreign Ministry. Oded Yinon’s "A Strategy for Israel in the 1980s" document, according to historian Stephen Sniegoski, "undoubtedly reflected high-level thinking in the Israeli military and intelligence establishment. The article called for Israel to bring about the dissolution and fragmentation of the Arab states into a mosaic of ethnic groupings."
