Bill Scher: The Importance of Cole v. Hitchens
And, a Suggestion
He also points out the MEMRI’s translation is close to my own.
So, I have a suggestion for my readers. Every time you see a newspaper article that alleges that Ahmadinejad said that Israel should be wiped off the face of the map, please write the editor. Say that this idiom does not exist in Persian, and that what Ahmadinejad actually said was, “This occupation regime over Jerusalem must vanish from the page of time.” And you can cite me.
If enough people do this often enough, the press will get tired of the propaganda line they are carrying, which is intended to whip up a manufactured war, and drop it. And that would be the most fitting response to Hitchens and his Neocon puppeteers.
Could you direct me to his actual speech as translated. I, for one, agree that what is actually said, is the most important reporting a a columnist can convey…..not what I think they said or what I want someone to have said.
you have to include more context in such a request. I don’t know which speech you are referring to, by whom.