Ahmadinejad was misquoted!

So claims the hysterical Juan Cole, who is also trying to advance the notion that the sinister threats emanating from Farceur-in-Chief Ahmadinejad of Iran are just business as usual and not to be taken seriously.

Anyway… Hitchens attacked Cole’s pretensions and his apologist stance, Cole retaliated by calling Hitchens a drunk, Sullivan came to Hitchens’s defense and demolished Cole’s argument:

Ahmadinejad is clearly referring to the “occupation” of the entire land of Israel, not just the West Bank, Gaza or parts or the whole of Jerusalem. He sees it as stretching back 50 years (before Israel controlled all of Jerusalem). He utterly rejects the withdrawal from Gaza or the West Bank as sufficient. And he wants the country wiped off the map - and even erased from the historical record. Cole’s rhetorical sleight of hand strikes me as deliberate deception, an attempt to deny the existence of a real genocidal evil in the world that Cole himself knows exists. Why? You decide. But Cole has exposed himself more brutally than Hitch ever could.

The end.

Until the next chapter.