Buckle your seatbelts! Is Ezekiel 38-39 not far off?
Stephen

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Arutz Sheva News Service
http://www.IsraelNationalNews.com

AHMADINEJAD: CONDITIONS FOR REMOVAL OF ISRAEL ARE AT HAND

Iranian leader Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, clearing up any ambiguity in previous
calls to "wipe Israel off the map," uses an Arabic word for the removal of
body hair to describe his plans for Israel.
 "All the conditions for the removal of the Zionist regime are at hand,"
Ahmadinejad told an Arab Conference of Iraqi Neighbors meeting on Saturday.
For the first time, he employed the Arabic word <i>ezaleh</i>, which is used
to describe the irreversible removal of body hairs.

"Nations in the region will be more furious every day. It won't take long
before the wrath of the people turns into a terrible explosion that will wipe
the Zionist entity off the map," Ahmadinejad told the foreign ministers of
Jordan, Syria, Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, Turkey, Bahrain and Egypt. The heads of
the Arab League and the Islamic Conference were also present, in addition to a
special United Nations representative.

None of the foreign ministers present, including Jordan, Egypt or Turkey -
commonly regarded as Israel's friends in the Arab/Muslim world - objected to
the call for annihilation. Instead, the following statement was issued: "The
Arab foreign ministers participating in today's Tehran meeting expressed their
strong condemnation of this continuing and increasing aggression against the
Palestinian people."

The Iranian president went on to blame all of the region's troubles on the
Jewish state:
"The basic problem in the Islamic world is the existence of the Zionist
regime, and the Islamic world and the region must mobilize to remove this
problem. It is a usurper that our enemies made and imposed on the Muslim
world, a regime that prevented the progress of the region's nations, a regime
that all Muslims must join hands in isolating worldwide.

He ended with a call on all nations to cease their support of Israel:
"[All nations] should realize that their support for the illegitimate,
usurper, Zionist regime is a mistake. The waves of fury of Muslim nations will
not be confined within the boundaries of the region, and the people who close
their ears to the cries of the Palestinians and blindly support this regime
will be responsible for the consequences... I tell them to dissociate
themselves or face the terrible consequences.

Since Ahmadinejad's call to "wipe Israel off the map" last October, some
academics have claimed the Iranian leader was mistranslated or misunderstood.

"Ahmadinejad did not say he was going to wipe Israel off the map, because no
such idiom exists in Persian," left-wing University of Michigan professor Juan
Cole told the New York Times. "He did say he hoped its regime, i.e., a
Jewish-Zionist state occupying Jerusalem, would collapse. Since Iran has not
attacked another country aggressively for over a century, I smell the whiff of
war propaganda."

Jonathan Steele of the British Guardian newspaper also told the Times:
"The Iranian president was quoting an ancient statement by Iran's first
Islamist leader, the late Ayatollah Khomeini, that 'this regime occupying
Jerusalem must vanish from the page of time,' just as the Shah's regime in
Iran had vanished. He was not making a military threat. He was calling for an
end to the occupation of Jerusalem at some point in the future. The 'page of
time' phrase suggests he did not expect it to happen soon."

Neither of the two have responded to Ahmadinejad's latest clarification and
call to action, which were translated and distributed by the Iranian state-run
IRNA news agency.

The Iranian leader's threats are particularly significant as the Islamic
Republic continues to pursue nuclear technology and world bodies continue to
pursue diplomatic means of inducing Iran to give up its nuclear aspirations.