Persian Realm

Stoning, again

The state-run newspaper Qods reported that a mother of three is sentenced to stoning. Reportedly, the evidence is video tapes of her having sex with another person [Persian].

We have to stop this! Spread the news and send the link in the comment section. We have to stop this.

Do we want this to happen again (Very Graphic)?

//kamangir.net/2007/10/04/woman-to-be-stoned-...

It was Soheil's commnets not mine

"Iranian-American", I was not the one who wrote about the Holy Land, it was Soheil. You should read the article and the name before writing and accusing people.
Just to say that murdering innocent people is wrong no matter where, does not make you the hater of any group. Be careful what you write to people.
I am sure this is a very sensitive issue but please be a little more educated and have a better common sense.
All I am saying is killing of totally innocent people, in Iraq, Israel, Palestine, Afganestan, etc.anywhere is wrong and people who order them are criminals, nothing more, nothing less.

Reza Khan was an anti semite

Reza Khan was an anti-semite. Reza Khan loved Hitler. To praise him is to be anti-semetic. The blood of 6 million Jews is on the hands of Reza kachaleh.

"Farokh" is a Zionist Goy-hater posing as a human being

The garbage that "Farokh" (his real name is Moshe the Charlatan) writes about Palestine being uninhabited before the money launderers, embezzlers, loan sharks, and Yiddish supremacists of Russia and Poland infested it has been well debunked. In fact, the prominent Zionist writer, Ahad Ha'am, remarked that Palestine was inhabited by a large number of Muslim, Christian, and Druze people (and a Jewish comnunity comprising about 2% of the population according to estimates made by Ottoman authorities in the 1880s) before the Zionist movement.

Basseh baba!

Farokh,
Not sure if you're Persian; anyway, some of your points may be accurate, but your use of exaggerated rhetoric full of assumptions, accusations, and oversimplifications weakens the whole argument.

Before you make fun of people's intellect

shouldn't you make sure you know the difference between {you're} and {your} in the title of this article?

More Lies:Ahmadinejad before

More Lies:Ahmadinejad before he became president:

//www.youtube.com/watch?v=tQ8pkIRwws8&eurl=ht...

Ahmagh after he became president:

//www.youtube.com/watch?v=xOymPGXc_m4&eurl=ht...

The Islamic Republic of lie.

The Islamic Republic of lie. The whole regime is founded on lies.

//kamangir.net/2007/09/20/the-islamic-republi...

Soheil's commnets

Soheil;
I know people of all religious backgrounds/comvictions live together all over the World and there is no problem there but why is it that the Jews in that part of the World, with support from the criminals here in U.S. keep killing people and taking their land and not even the UN(which is controlled by U.S) can pass a resolution to condemn their actions but if anything happens anyplace else, the UN(U.S) is all over it?.
That is the point. There is absolutely no justification for abuse, murder and occupation of other innocent people.
Thanks for the clips of history but that does not justify murder. The same way that nothing would justify what U.S is doing to Iraqis and Afghans and other places, where there is Natural Resource and Geography.

Farokh

Time
and again we see the false claim that "Palestine" (which was defined by
Europeans in the 19th century on the basis of the Jewish homeland) was
an existing Arab country, that it was an "Arab land". As if Jews
weren't still present when Arabs began colonizing the land in the 16th
century. As if the land was full of Arabs and with no Jews. What
follows are accounts by travelers who visited:

In 1738 Thomas Shaw ["Travels and Observations"] described a land of

|| barrenness.... from want of inhabitants.

In 1785 Constantine Francois de Volney ["Travels Through Syria and Egypt"] recorded the population of the three main cities.

Jerusalem had a population of 12,000 to 14,000. Bethlehem had about 600 able-bodied men. Hebron had 800 to 900 men.

Noting the land barren and empty, Napoleon in 1799 suggested a Jewish return.

In 1835 Alphonse de Lamartine wrote ["Recollections of the East", published 1838]:

|| Outside
the city of Jerusalem, we saw no living object, heard no living
sound... a complete eternal silence reigns in the town, in the
highways, in the country... The tomb of a whole people.

Recall
that by this time Jews (despite being expelled in 1660 and the subject
of several massacres) formed a plurality in Jerusalem.

Echoing
these sentiments, in 1857 the British consul in Jerusalem, James Finn,
wrote [British Foreign Office Documents 78/1294, Pol. No. 36] :

|| The country is in a considerable degree empty of inhabitants and therefore its greatest need is that of a body of population.

Some
estimates put the population as low as 100,000 in the mid 19th century,
just 150 years ago, and in decline. This in a land that 2000 years ago,
in "primitive" times, supported as many as 7 million people and in
which, today, 10 million people reside.

Mark Twain (Samuel Clemens) needs no introduction to North American
audiences, but for those not familiar with him Twain is one of
America's most prolific writers. Perhaps you've even heard of such
classics as "Huckleberry Fin" and "Tom Sawyer". Twain's works are known
for his accurate description of the setting (a literary genre known as
realism).

In 1869 he wrote The Innocents Abroad. It was a
compilation of his recent journey aboard a steam ship that was the
world's first cruise ship. In the preface, Twain writes that:

|| This
book is a record of a pleasure trip. ...it has a purpose, which is to
suggest to the reader how he would be likely to see Europe and the East
if he looked at them with his own eyes instead of the eyes of those who
traveled in those countries before him.... I think I have seen with
impartial eyes, and I am sure I have written at least honestly.

The book is broken down into 62 chapters. Here are some excerpts:

|| There
is not a solitary village throughout its whole extent [Gilboa] -- not
for thirty miles in either direction. There are two or three small
clusters of Bedouin tents, but not a single permanent habitation. One
may ride ten miles, hereabouts, and not see ten human beings. ...No man
can stand here by deserted Ain Mellahah....

I mention this
village because Arab propagandists list it as one that was “ethnically
cleansed” in 1948. Other historical accounts speak of 300 villages
which had already been abandoned, due to natural causes such as
malaria, by around 1900.

|| [a] desolate country whose soil is rich enough, but is given over wholly to weeds -- a silent mournful expanse.

escribing the area around the “Sea” of Galilee:

|| It is seven
in the morning, and as we are in the country, the grass ought to be
sparkling with dew, the flowers enriching the air with their fragrance,
and the birds singing in the trees. But alas, there is no dew here,
nor flowers, nor birds, nor trees. There is a plain and an unshaded
lake, and beyond them some barren mountains.

|| There was a time, when the Saviour taught here, that boats were plenty among the fishermen of the coasts--but boats and fishermen both are gone, now.

You know those joke postcards of "X at night"? Perhaps Twain invented them:

||
Night is the time to see Galilee. Genessaret under these lustrous stars
has nothing repulsive about it. Genessaret with the glittering
reflections of the constellations flecking its surface, almost makes me
regret that I ever saw the rude glare of the day upon it.

Moving inland:

|| A desolation is here that not even imagination can grace with the pomp of life and action...

|| We never saw a human being on the whole route.

|| There
was hardly a tree or a shrub anywhere. Even the olive and the cactus,
those fast friends of the worthless soil, had almost deserted the
country. No landscape exists that is more tiresome to the eye than that which bounds the approaches to Jerusalem.

|| Of all the lands there are for dismal scenery, I think Palestine
must be the prince. The hills are barren, they are dull of color, they
are unpicturesque in shape. The valleys are unsightly deserts fringed
with a feeble vegetation that has an expression about it of being
sorrowful and despondent. The Dead Sea and the Sea of Galilee sleep in
the midst of a vast stretch of hill and plain wherein the eye rests
upon no pleasant tint, no striking object, no soft picture dreaming in
a purple haze or mottled with the shadows of the clouds. Every outline
is harsh, every feature is distinct, there is no perspective --
distance works no enchantment here. It is a hopeless, dreary, heart-broken land.

|| Palestine sits in sackcloth and ashes. Over it broods the spell of a curse that has withered its fields and fettered its energies.
...Nazareth is forlorn; ...Jericho the accursed, lies a moldering ruin
...Bethlehem and Bethany, in their poverty and their humiliation, have
nothing about them now to remind one that they once knew the high honor
of the Saviour's presence; ...Renowned Jerusalem itself, the stateliest
name in history, has lost all its ancient grandeur, and is become a
pauper village; ...Bethsaida and Chorazin have vanished from the earth,
and the "desert places" round about them where thousands of men once
listened to the Saviour's voice and ate the miraculous bread, sleep in
the hush of a solitude that is inhabited only by birds of prey and
skulking foxes.

rom the 1911 Encyclopaedia Britannica:

|| Many of these
aqueducts, as well as countless numbers of now leaky cisterns, could
with but little trouble be brought into use again, and would greatly
enhance the fertility of the country.

The Jewish revival of the land was no miracle.
It just took hard work.
Work no one else had done or was interested in doing.

A description from 1913:

||
The road leading from Gaza to the north was only a summer track
suitable for transport by camels and carts... no orange groves,
orchards or vineyards were to be seen until one reached [the Jewish
village of] Yabna [Yavne]... Houses were all of mud. No windows were
anywhere to be seen... The ploughs used were of wood... The yields were
very poor... The sanitary conditions in the village were horrible.
Schools did not exist... The western part, towards the sea, was almost
a desert... The villages in this area were few and thinly
populated. Many ruins of villages were scattered over the area, as
owing to the prevalence of malaria, many villages were deserted by
their inhabitants.

Ahmadinejad a liar

I totally agree with your point on this. he and all of the current rulers in Iran are liars and they need to go.
Having said that he had a point about why the Palestinians are paying for something the Germans did in WWII to the Jews. This is a question no one in the West wants to answer because of all the control AIPAC has over the entire West, of course.