Nachtrag zu Ahmadinejad und Israel
Was wir auf diesem Blog bereits mehrfach anhand der persischen Originalzitate dargelegt haben, dass nämlich Ahmadinejad sehr wohl einer Zerstörung Israels das Wort redet, entspricht den Befunden Joshua Teitelbaums vom Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs (JCPA), die man dort und beim Hoover-Institut nachlesen kann. Teitelbaums Analyse gründet ebenfalls auf den persischen Originalzitaten. Hier ein Auszug:
In an address to the “World without Zionism” conference held in Tehran on October 26, 2005, Ahmadinejad said: Our dear Imam [Khomeini] ordered that this Jerusalem-occupying regime [Israel] must be erased from the page of time. This was a very wise statement. (Va Imam-e aziz-e ma farmudand ke in rezhim-e eshghalgar-e Qods bayad az safhe-ye ruzegar mahv shaved. In jomle besyar hakimane ast.) New York Times Tehran correspondent Nazila Fathi translated the statement as Israel “must be wiped off the map,” a nonliteral translation that nevertheless conveys the meaning of the original: the destruction of Israel.
It cannot be credibly denied: the Iranian president has persistently called not just for “regime change” in Jerusalem but for the actual, physical destruction of the state of Israel. Soft-pedaling Ahmadinejad’s call for the destruction of Israel, Cole told the Times that all Ahmadinejad had said was that “he hoped its regime, i.e., a Jewish-Zionist state occupying Jerusalem, would collapse.” Official Iranian representatives and organs have since based their slogans on Ahmadinejad’s statement, loosely translating the statement as “Israel should be wiped off the face of the world.” This is evident in photographs of banners and signs in parades and ceremonies.
Wie bekannt hatte Cole nicht sinngemäss, sondern wörtlich übersetzt, womit er reichlich Verwirrung stiftete.
Links: (1.) Kurzfassung bei Hoover, (2.) Langfassung beim Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs
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