Kill all Jews, annihilate Israel

Well there you go then. Puzzle solved.Here, by comparison, is an Israeli take on it, from ynetnews, the English language website of Yedioth Ahronoth, Israel's most-read newspaper. Note their ability to distinguish between a weblog and the Iranian government, and between a computer engineer called Forghani and Ayatollah Khamenei, who are actually two different people.But then, they're probably part of the "liberal establishment". And they're definitely part of "the media". Unlike WND, which apparently isn't.

... to be carried out using conventional weapons and within the space of nine minutes, as threatened by a blogger who has no actual weapons.Well, the word pffft comes to mind.

While your warm and fuzzy feeling is unjustified, you are right to say that that's not a problem. Oh, people are always calling for genocide on the Internet. Here are Fox News viewers on the internet calling for the murder of all atheists. That doesn't particularly worry me, nor at the time did I bother to condemn it. How 'bout you? Here are the people who want to kill all the liberals. Though that great humanitarian Rush Limbaugh wants to keep one or two for display purposes.If I condemned all the genocidal lunatics on the Internet I wouldn't have time to look at all the porn.

Nor does the blogger. So far, they are on a par. Let's hear some condemnation, then. And Iranians with nukes would scare the bejeezus out of me, unlike the Iranians with internet access. Is that meant to explain why the conservative Neville Chamberlain cravenly appeased Hitler when Hitler had a great big Army and kept invading places, or why the liberal Dr A mocked a blogger with no power whatsoever? Only those are actually different kinds of threats. 'Cos one of them isn't a real threat. Oh, and one out of me and the former leader of the Conservative Party is a liberal, see if you can work out which. Yes, certainly. What I'm not going to do is worry about these threats when uttered by someone who might as well be threatening to grow silver wings and fly to the moon. At the very worst they are straws that show which way the wind blows.Edited by Dr Adequate, : No reason given.Edited by Dr Adequate, : No reason given.

Or instead of guessing you could ask liberals what they think, but that would involve not being an idiot.If you want to know what Jews think about it, you could always look at the Israeli newspaper to which I supplied a link. Actually being in Israel rather than down the hall, their perspective on the matter might be even more revealing. That's a very broad characterization of "elsewhere". Are you quite sure that that applies to every media organization in the world except WND?

The story you cited from WND is just blather from WND.If you'd started an OP saying: "Should we be worried about Iran?" then quite probably everyone would have said YES. But you didn't. You posted a piece of idiocy from WND and then lashed into "liberals" and "the media" for not being equally dishonest and retarded. Drawing people's attention to an imaginary threat and then lambasting them for not taking it seriously is not a good way to draw their attention to a real threat, no matter how many conservative brownie points it wins you.But of course the conservative brownie points are what matters, aren't they? You don't want to ask questions like: "Do you support Israel's right to exist" or "Do you think all the Jews should be killed", or "Do you support Iranian theocracy", because you know perfectly well what answers you'd get. Instead you need a wedge issue, such as: "Do you think that this article from WND is ridiculous", because liberals, who are sane, will say: "Yes, completely ridiculous", and then conservatives like AE, who are nuts, can prance around and pretend that that means that liberals support the Ayatollah. Getting everyone to agree about Iran would be easy. You have set yourself the more difficult task of pretending that there is a difference, so that you can make this into a partisan issue. Fortunately for you, there is a difference between liberals and conservatives, though not about Iran. It's the difference between the sane and the mad.Edited by Dr Adequate, : No reason given.

But that's a report on real things actually happening. What he wants to know is, why didn't the liberal media join WND in pretending that a random blog by a nobody was a statement by the Ayatollah?

Actually, that is what it meant very shortly afterwards.When Ferdinand and Isabella expelled the Jews from Spain, the Ottoman Empire received them with open arms. The Caliph of the time made some remark along the lines of (quote from memory): "This Ferdinand is a whimsical fellow, he impoverishes his country and enriches mine." Well again, yes, it did, pretty much. This is why the Holocaust happened, and how America got Albert Einstein and Emmy Noether.You also ask about Russia, I really have no idea. However, the point stands, if a country is really anti-semitic, they do have the option of killing or expelling their Jews.