What the AP won’t tell you Ahmadinejad said

The Associated Press whitewashes our enemies, and Israel’s enemies, on a regular basis. Case in point: Ahmadinejad’s letter to America.

What the AP published:

In Wednesday’s letter, he said, “we, like you, are aggrieved by the ever-worsening pain and misery of the Palestinian people” and accused the Bush administration of disregarding public opinion by remaining “in the forefront of supporting the trampling of the rights of the Palestinian people.”

Besides passing along a lie (Americans favor Israel over the palestinians in poll after poll after poll), the AP neglected to publish the paragraphs that immediately follow the above quote, which include more examples of Ahmadinejad’s rejectionism towards Israel. Note the refusal, as always, to call Israel by her name.

What Ahmadinejad wrote:

For 60 years, the Zionist regime has driven millions of the inhabitants of Palestine out of their homes. Many of these refugees have died in the Diaspora and in refugee camps. Their children have spent their youth in these camps and are aging while still in the hope of returning to homeland.

You know well that the US administration has persistently provided blind and blanket support to the Zionist regime, has emboldened it to continue its crimes, and has prevented the UN Security Council from condemning it.

Who can deny such broken promises and grave injustices towards humanity by the US administration?

Governments are there to serve their own people. No people wants to side with or support any oppressors. But regrettably, the US administration disregards even its own public opinion and remains in the forefront of supporting the trampling of the rights of the Palestinian people.

Here’s another example of leaving out the worst of two paragraphs (though this one is bad enough):

What the AP published:

“What has blind support for the Zionists by the U.S. administration brought for the American people?,” Ahmadinejad asked. “It is regrettable that for the U.S. administration, the interests of these occupiers supersedes the interests of the American people and of the other nations of the world.”

What Ahmadinejad wrote:

What has blind support for the Zionists by the US administration brought for the American people? It is regrettable that for the US administration, the interests of these occupiers supersedes the interests of the American people and of the other nations of the world.

What have the Zionists done for the American people that the US administration considers itself obliged to blindly support these infamous aggressors? Is it not because they have imposed themselves on a substantial portion of the banking, financial, cultural and media sectors?

There you go, a little bit of naked Jew-hatred thrown in for you. Banking, financial, cultural, and media industries. Hey, he forgot the lawyers and doctors.

In this next example, the AP elides Ahmadinejad’s latest iteration of his rejection of Israel’s legitimacy. Let’s take another look at the first paragraph I mentioned:

What the AP published:

In Wednesday’s letter, he said, “we, like you, are aggrieved by the ever-worsening pain and misery of the Palestinian people”

What Ahamdinejad wrote:

We, like you, are aggrieved by the ever-worsening pain and misery of the Palestinian people. Persistent aggressions by the Zionists are making life more and more difficult for the rightful owners of the land of Palestine

Funny how the AP manages to ignore that bit about the “rightful owners” of that mythical land of “Palestine.” Just as funny as the AP neglecting to point out that sentence about the Jews running the world.

This is yet another publicity ploy by a man who is not our friend, who lies when he says he cares about Americans, who lies when he talks about truth, justice, and human rights. Women are not equal in Iran. There is no dissent in the press. Dissidents have been beaten, tortured, and murdered. And this man lectures us on Abu Ghraib?

And the AP passes along most of his lies and does him the courtesy of deleting the more controversial points of his letter.

Can’t wait to see the Reuters version.

Update: Good for CNN! They mentioned the anti-Semitism and included the quote that the AP left out.

In his letter, Ahmadinejad — who has called for Israel to be “wiped off the map” — asks what the U.S. government’s “blind support for the Zionists” has “brought for the American people.”

“Is it not because they have imposed themselves on a substantial portion of the banking, financial, cultural and media sectors?” he said, referring to Jewish people,