Nice catch by Jonathan Tobin at Commentary:
However, there was something missing from the Times report of Khamenei’s speech that was reported elsewhere. Other accounts noted that in addition to threatening the United States, Khamenei said this: “The Zionist regime is a cancerous tumor and it will be removed.” While we don’t know how or why a mention of this element of the speech managed to get excised from the account in the Times, it’s a question worth pondering.
Any discussion of the nature of the Iranian nuclear threat that ignores the regime’s murderous intentions toward Israel is clearly incomplete.
I was under the impression that most NYT readers, as well as most Paul supporters, would agree with Khamenei.
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Reply to this commentLinkReport AbuseThat's not censorship. It's judgement. (Censorship must be the word most often mis-used in the English language).
Did the Times quote the entire speech? Of course not, they used their judgement to include what they considered the most salient/important quotes and did not include that one. Others did. I imagine the fact that Khamenei and other Iranian officials have said this exact sentence countless times before made it less worthy of inclusion in the Times judgement, especially since the piece already talks about the regime's desire to eliminate Israel. That's not a "catch," it's paranoia.
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Puhleeeeze.
Reply to this commentLinkReport AbuseThis is not censorship. That being said, the NYT is famously anti-Semitic, and anti-Israel, so this should be of no surprise to anyone.
Reply to this commentLinkReport AbuseHmmm... the most common way of dealing with a cancerous tumor is with radiation... pretty frightening when you consider Khamenei's statement on a national scale in the context of nuclear weapons.
Reply to this commentLinkReport Abuse"While we don’t know how or why a mention of this element of the speech managed to get excised from the account in the Times, it’s a question worth pondering."
Of course we know why.
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