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What Ahmadinejad said is arguably better translated as "remove from the pages of history" but more importantly, if you read the entire paragraph it is clear that he is talking about the current government not the entire population.
Would Ahmadinejad be happy if he could remove the entire jewish population and destroy the country of Israel? Wouldn't surprise me.
But so far what he has said publicly is only slightly harsher then what the US says about Cuba and what was said about Iraq before the invasion, or what Israel says about Hamas.
Jay