Re: Iran's President says that Israel will soon be wiped out
Ahmadinejad was not making a threat, he was quoting a saying of Khomeini and urging that pro-Palestinian activists in Iran not give up hope -- that the occupation of Jerusalem was no more a continued inevitability than had been the hegemony of the Shah's government. Whatever this quotation from a decades-old speech of Khomeini may have meant, Ahmadinejad did not say that 'Israel must be wiped off the map' with the implication that phrase has of Nazi-style extermination of a people. He said that the occupation regime over Jerusalem must be erased from the page of time."
Erased, wiped off...it all means the same. If Ahmedinejad could nuke Israel out of existence, he would. Israel can never break up like USSR because it has none of it's political and social vices. So the only way to make Jersusalem's present owners 'vanish from the page of time' would be to vanquish them in war.