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The point of this article is exactly what President Ahmadinajad was trying to make in his infamous speech in which he said the "holocaust was a myth." It was not a statement of holocaust denial but an attempt to explain that israel has turned the holocaust into an excuse that justifies its own atrocious behavior. But his true intent has been inverted by the same forces described by Kamiya. Likewise, Ahmadinajad never said he planned to "wipe Israel off the face of the map" but rather, "the regime which occupies Jerusalem will be removed from the sands of time." Not a threat but a prediction of the ultimate victory of his view of God's justice, not unlike Ronald Reagan's dustbin of History quote.
