Meridor and Barak need to be shown the door after the next elections.

Is there really a significant difference between saying 'Israel should be wiped off the map' and saying it's cancerous and'should be removed'?

Egg less chickens dont mass with IRAN.

At least Ahmdeinijad & Khameni said Israel is a cancerous tumor that has to be excised, which is the same thing.

I don't know how the Farsi translation should be, but an Iranian official English web site reported a speech to students where Armadinajad threatened "to wipe Israel from the map". The link was susequently removed. At least the Iranian government translator understood it as Bibi did. Had I known it would disappear, I would have saved a screen shot. Has any talkbacker got one still?

He means just that.

A peace message.? The mob understands it in context of the meeting.

they commenced hostilities with Israel. They have been fighting a proxy war against Israel ever since

what's the difference between saying wiping off the map or is cancerous ands should be removed and arming hezbollah, hamas and syria with millioins of dollars and rockets? Don't act like olmert, who is a coward. Israel may have to go war and stop crying about it. after the holocaust if israel doesn't fight for itself, noone else would.

Come on, what difference does it make? Maybe he said "Israel should vanish from the Earth", maybe he said "Israel should be wiped off the map", both thing are the same, folks! It does not matter the precise translation of his words, the world has got the general idea quite well - and there' no denying it!

between genocide and extermination. What a jackass.

We have the cream of the crop in the Knesset. LOL

In NYC at Columbia University Ahmadinejad also stated there were no homosexuals in Iran. Sadly, that's because he probably had them executed.

He respects the truth, is consistent in what he says, never throws oil on a fire, and treats all with respect. A different Israel would see a PM in the man. Daddy Meridor did a much better job of raising his sons - both mentchs, than Bibi's father who was one for two.

What? There is a difference between wipe from time, cancer must be removed, and wiped of the earth? Send this boy to Beit Shemesh, he can sit in yeshiva and play word games. Likud looks more like America (respectfully) everyday, it can not make up its' mind and it can not govern.

Sounds like one translated the phrase as a whole, one translated word for word. The meaning is the same.

...my mother tongue!

Chanting death to israel is their daily ritual, rallying cry.

How more explicit can you get!? They sneak arms into Hamastan & Hezbollah to kill the Jews. They bombed the Argentinian Jewish Cultural Center & Israel Embassy in Argentina. They are a bunch of criminals & terrorists. In Farsi, the sign in PARLIAMENT IS:" The destruction of Israel is at hand". PLEASE TAKE YOUR HEAD OUT OF THE SAND!

Meridor, Barak and Perez must all come from the same useless family. Praying that God rids Israel of these cancers' that are trying to destroy the Zionist body, heart and soul. God bless, Israel; praying for the peace of Jerusalem!

let's see, a'jad said: Israel should be destroyed. Israel will be destroyed. iran has the means to destroy Israel. and meridor, the dummy, wants to parse the words of a single statement in effort to rehabilitate a'jad and suggest that he's been misunderstood. how stupid can one be? meridor provides one answer to that question: very, very stupid!

Tough sanctions are seemingly becoming more effective and tougher sanctions even more so. Sanctions for now are a better alternative to military conflict which is the strategy of last resort. Let the Iranians take visible verifiable actions to show they mean real business rather than confusing contradictory words

If Israel can't even trust Ahmadinejad anymore, I don't see who else there is to hope for in the next Hasbara campaign. Sarah Palin maybe???

Firstly, it is not Iran threatening to do the "removing." How many times have you read a post on Ynet where somebody claims that Iran's president has "repeatedly threatened to destroy Israel?" Hundreds, I'm sure. When posters are asked when this threatening occurred, they quote (or, more accurately, misquote) the line in the article. 99% of the world long ago figured out Iran's president was misquoted, it's good that Ynet has finally caught on. What Iran's president was saying is more like "there will one day be regime change in Israel" or "one day there will be a single state where both Israelis and Palestinians live together." Take your pick. What he was NOT saying was "we are building nukes to one day destroy Iran." Needless to say, the latter is what most posters here believe was said. I'm sure some posters will continue to quibble about this, but keep in mind that Israeli leaders have continually threatened Iran (ie: "all options are on the table.") I'm sure there have also been Israeli leaders who have talked about "regime" change in Iran, or doing away with Iran's leaders. What's good for the goose is good for the gander.

except for the numbskulls who post here. This is old news, but better late than never.

The clowns Barak and Meridor are far gone enough for this:-- --- If someone would spit in their faces, they would respond: "What a nice rain today"...They still have not learned the lessons of appeasement - it is more important for these creatures to maintain their comfy chairs, than face the bitter reality of the ultimate CONFRONTATION - yes - with Iran!