[Deathmonger]

What’s interesting about the resolution is that repeats the so-often-repeated-claim-that-it-must-be-true that Ahmadinejad called for Israel to be nuked or “wiped off the map”. In fact, what he said is more properly translated as “must vanish from the pages of time”, i.e. that the Jewish state should collapse and be replaced with something else, which, while obviously not friendly, is not the threat that everybody “knows” he made because it is repeated in MSM. Ahmadinejad and his spokesturbans have been clarifying what they said since then, and denying that they made a threat, but this is not reported because it doesn’t make such good copy.

Read this for more info:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mahmoud_Ahmadinejad_and_Israel

Apparently the mistranslation originated ironically in Iran’s own PR bureau and spread from there. I’ll bet nobody on FR even knows about this because everything they have read from Dick “he’s threatened to nuke Israel” Cheney on down has repeated the mantra.

Paul might actually be aware of this and out of principle did not support a resolution that was based primarily on a lie.

[mnehring]

I think you should note where the source of this claim comes from, the IRIB- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IRIB
Islamic Republic of Iran Broadcasting

[rmlew]

Considering Iran's fudning other those who want to destroy Israel, calls for the sbugations of the Jews, and an eschatology that believes that all Jews must die or convert for the MAhdi, I'll go with the original translation of the Iranian government.

STill, let's look at the comment “must vanish from the pages of time”.
That seems to imply far more than the end of the Third Commonwealth of ISrael. It calls for Israel to be historically annihilated. Teh only way to do that is to kill all Jews.