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Wednesday
May 23, 2001

What's it got to do with Jews?

I am a Iranian Moslem (formally) and have an honest question for Mr Khashayar Pakravan ["Imperialism is alive"] completely unrelated to all the political hype, just a genuine question if you believe me.

What is this continual effort in iranian.com by some of our guys to find an excuse just to address the Israeli or Jewish responsibility in every thing bad that happens to anybody or anything bad that happens to our country? Even the Dutch peacekeeper's fault comes in a piece against Jews!

Even arresting one of our filmmakers at the JFK airport ends up in an article against Jewish people? I am not Jewish but I find this too exaggerated sympathy to Palestinians or the Islamic Republic and unrelated to our national interests in any case.

No need to say that Palestinians also have their rights like anyone else, but why should any wrongdoing of the U.S. or imperialist world result in writing an anti-Jewish article especially in one of OUR magazines?! Isn't it odd? Honestly, don't you find it a little weird? Palestinians or the ayatollahs or anyone else know how to defend themselves very well; they have proven it.

Is this the Jews' fault to have become strong enough to defend themselves; we can learn from their experience as Bosnians, Tamils,... Should. I wish we could have access to the media and protect ourselves too?

To tell the truth, I thought since iranian.com is becoming more and more popular it might be some Arabs are using it for advertisement? Or even the Islamic regime is doing it? Obviously the editors of a magazine (especially online magazines) can not have any control over this while it is providing a free and easy way of advertising. Someone must be behind this -- we all know that we are not historically an advocate of Arabs rights! Simply, none of our business. They know better what to do about their problems.

That's all I have to say and would appreciate any answers but please in your responses don't give me another lecture about how cruel the Israeli government has been to Palestinians by killing 400 of them in nine month,s since we have seen much more than that done to our own nation by both regimes, especially this one, in a single day while the whole world didn't make any hype!

Sincerely yours,

Manooch

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