[Marxism] translation of Ahmadinejad

[Anna Fierling <anna_fierling@xxxxxxxxx>]

An Iranian-German friend of mine translated the president's speech (from 
yesterday), and it seems that the versions in the US press aren't quite 
accurate or complete.

  (On a side note, I don't think it's quite true that the European powers 
supported Israel wholeheartedly in 1948, and that this was out of guilt for the 
Holocaust and so on. It's a lot more complicated than that. For one thing, in 
the aftermath of WWII, there was little public discussion of the Jewish 
genocide--until the Eichmann trial, really--and Jews in the US or elsewhere 
were not pressing the Europeans or the American gov't to support Israel as some 
sort of moral compensation. There's much more to be said about all this, but 
these are just a couple thoughts.)

  translation:
  ". . . .The second question I asked was: If you are telling the truth
about you
murdering and burning 6 million Jews during World War II in gas
chambers -- and
apparently you are telling the truth and emphasizing on your claim
because you
arrest, condemn, and imprison anyone and even your scholars who are
against
this issue ... ... (changes thought) This shows that you are making a
serious
claim. My question is that why does the innocent Palestinian nation
have to pay
the price of this heinous crime you committed? Why are you using those
killings
as a pretext to come to the heart of the Islamic world and dear
Palestine and
impose a phoney Zionist regime on the innocent people of that land? If
you have
committed the crime, then you have to pay the price. I propose that if
you have
committed a crime, it's good if you allocate a part of your country or
Europe,
America, Canada, or Alaska to them so that they can establish a country
for
themselves. You can be sure that if you do such a thing, the Iranian
nation
will never protest to you. We won't even hold a demonstration on Qods
Day and
we will not shout any slogans against you or this usurper Zionist
regime. We
will definitely support your decision.

Instead of accepting this clear and sound logic, those who claim to
support
freedom of speech, democracy and human rights, have started to use
their tools
and facilities and given a statement. They have said that the Iranian
president
has made some inappropriate comments and this shows that he can't be a
part of
today's civilized world as a civilized person and doesn't befit a civil
society. They all started to condemn me without dealing with the main
issue.

They have created a myth today and they call it the massacre of the
Jews (the
Holocaust). They consider this as a principle above God, above religion
and
above prophets. If someone were to deny the existence of God in their
country
and deny the existence of prophets and religion, they would not bother
him.
However, if someone were to deny the myth of the Jews massacre, all the
Zionist
mouthpieces and the governments subservient to the Zionists tear their
larynxes
and scream against the person as much as they can. They tell us that we
are not
fit to live in a civilized society. Let me tell them on behalf of you,
the
people of Zahedan, if your civilization is tantamount to aggression, to
making
hapless people homeless, to suppressing the justice-seeking voices and
to
committing tyranny and injustice and giving poverty to the majority of
the
people on the planet Earth so that you can create comfort for your own
people,
then we shout from the bottom of our heart that we abhor your hollow
civilization. . . ."



Anna Fierling
Otto-Suhr-Institut
FU-Berlin

"Freiheit ist immer Freiheit der Andersdenkenden."
                        
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