Do they reflect a genuine concern that Tehran will shortly be able to act on Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's oft-stated threat to wipe Israel off the map?
Drew Goddard, who wrote Cloverfield and penned "Cabin in the Woods" with Joss Whedon, had drafted a script for the story, in which a high-functioning artificial intelligence turns against mankind and wages all-out war to wipe us off the planet.
Israel rightly perceives in the repeated threats by the regime in Tehran to "wipe Israel off the map" - and its imminent acquisition of the nuclear weapons and ballistic missiles with which to accomplish that goal - an existential threat.
Just a piece of wood and take and - you don't even to wipe it off.
Nevertheless, the upshot of the proposed bill for Blackstone's would be to wipe billions of dollars off the valuation of the buy-out giant.
Couple that with his calls to wipe Israel off the map and his government's -- so far unrestrained -- drive to develop the technology needed to build a nuclear weapon, and you have even more reasons to keep yourself up at night.
That alone might seem quite enough to wipe the smirk off the face of even the keenest would-be foreign minister.
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Their relationship with Iran - I mean, the president of Iran has said his goal is to wipe Israel off the map.
The White House's adherence to a piece of paper that could do immense harm to our people and our allies is based not on logic but on obsolete arms-control thinking: If the Soviets attack us, we can retaliate and wipe them off the face of the earth.
As he made clear in his speeches last week at Cairo and Buchenwald, Obama thinks that Israel suffers from a Holocaust-induced paranoia that causes it to wrongly believe that Arabs and Iranians wish to wipe it off the map.
About 40% of that revenue would be a result of not extending the 2001-03 tax cuts for high-income households and another 30% would come from the deduction cap (so you could wipe that off the books already).
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