GAZA

Israel is a THEOCRACY. It is a Jewish state.

And judaism is NOT an ethnicity. It is a RELIGION. Yes, the jews' exclusiveness culture make judaism look like an ethnicity, but in reality, judaism is a RELIGION. Therefore, israel is a theocracy, which, unfortunately, it appears that it is the direction towards which the U.S. govt is heading ... //www.amazon.com/American-Theocracy-Politics-...

And yes, unfortunately, our Iran is also a theocracy, certainly one to the extreme. Let's hope those wacko israelis don't get any more special treatment from us US taxpayers. And let's hope those wacko mulla's in Iran lose all the power they currently have.

Kashani speak for yourself!

Kashani, as I have told you many times before, speak for yourself and not "we Iranians". Not Iran, but those criminals who started Iraq war, Lebanon war, ..., and had a failed attempt in starting a war in Georgia are behind the current Gaza conflict as well.

Dear Farhad

There is no reason to resort to insults! I am honestly shocked to see this language from you, even more than when I saw your support for the criminals committing the massacre of civilians.

This is not a form of debate. You claimed to know what Iranians support and individual Iranians came forward to let you know that they do not agree with your generalization. I don't know many "Iranians" who feel the same way you do about the recent catastrophe in the middle east, except for a very few on this site, everyone I have spoken with and I've been in touch with in Iran are condemning the act of bombing civilians as any peace loving person should.

As I said before, I can't ask you to feel differently about the issue, but please do not attack the character of the people who do. This is a disaster that breaks the heart of any human being regardless of race, religion, or nationality.

IRANdokht

Zion you are a deception

Zion you are a deception agent. Everyone knows very well that the PR machine in the western main stream media is working for the Ashke-Nazi holocaust instigators.

zion has a criminal mind

that is for sure. Also any iranian who comes here and condons acts of violence and war against humanity is either insane or evil minded as well.
The United Nations turned its head and allowed saddam attack millions of innocent iranians and at the same time some iranians like NKO were kissing saddam. So i am not surprised to see bad blood within iranians as well.
I really doubt if any real persian would come here and praise criminal actions of israelies or arabs at other times unless they are the equivalent of rajavi and his gand but with propensity to support zionists rather than criminal arabs like saddam.

if you are good, just speak of peace and justice and do not praise crnimes against humanity

Western schizophrenia toward Israel

What is the reason for a schizophrenic Western attitude toward Nazism versus Zionism? Without meaning to ignore the differences between these ideological movements, why is it that their similarities are ignored? Nazism is mostly condemned, but Zionism is embraced by many Westerners despite its inherent colonialist and racist elements. I think this may be caused by inherent racism in the West.

In (ugly) truth, genocide, as practiced by Nazism was nothing new to
the West other than in its method. Slavery, colonialism, ethnic
cleansing and mass murder were quite common in how the British, French,
Spanish and some other Europeans treated the native populations of
non-European countries. And they did this through direct dehumanisation
and commoditisation of their victims, who were seen as inferior,
dispensable races. Germany had little part in any of this up till the
1930s when they launched mass slaughter of a minority race within their
own region. But, for the first time, a white minority race was the
victim.

Nazism brought the true ugliness of racism and genocide home to
white people on their own turf. Indignation and sympathy for its
European victims was mixed with abhorrence for racism precisely by the
biggest perpetrators of racism, who were genuinely and collectively
guilty of anti-Semitism too for the longest time. Westerners latched on
to Zionism as salvation not just for their own Jewish victims, but also
for the collective conscience of Western Christians fully aware of
their own guilt. Zionism became the vehicle for collective salvation,
and its inherent racism and colonialism were ironically missed or
deliberately ignored.

The white Jewish victims of Nazism could not be imagined as
perpetrators of a racist ideology. Palestinians and Arabs thus became a
barrier to the West’s salvation from racism, and were branded as Nazi
collaborators. Thus, the West once again proved that racism was
embedded deep in its psyche even when it was looking for salvation from
racism and genocide.

The Zionists’ shockingly brutal treatment of non-Jewish Palestinians
and other Arabs in the name of alleviating Jewish suffering at the
hands of racism and fascism in Europe presented a major dilemma and
caused serious inter-faith dislocations across the Middle East. A
version of India’s partition repeated itself, and many Jewish
communities across the M. E. migrated to Israel over the following
decades, while millions of Palestinians were driven from their land and
roots when the new European colony was established in Palestine.

While many people outside the West are dumbfounded that Israel can
be such a beacon for racism and war, the flaw in expectations is
simple: the white Jewish victims of racism in Europe were Europeans,
with racism and colonialism embedded in their culture. To the Zionists
among the Jews and Christians, anti-white and anti-Jewish racism were
abhorrent. Racism toward others was quite justified or even necessary.

Peace!

Farhad. Stop being delusional

Farhad. K.

Calm down. You have turned this into a personal matter and used profanity to make your point.
We know that you love your country and supposedly will fight to the last drop of blood in your body if you have to,to defend its borders and its integrity. But do not get overwhelmed with passion and excitement and spew nonsensical acussations, as if you know precisely who is doing what and belongs to what group or organization and is of what political background. Are you some kind of A record keeper who knows everything on everyone?

You have made the MOST rediculous of all conclusions by blaming Mamad and others to be responsible for the blood of those who are killed in the ISrael and arab conflict. I am so sorry, but with all Due respect, That is a bunch of *&%$%.You don't Know for a fact whether or not heor anyone else for that matter is a true supporter. You are just taking a wild guess based on what you in his writings, that may mislead you to see him as an IRI supporter.

One thing about polling, There does not have to be an official Polling conducted in a country in order to know what and how exactly people feel. It should be obvious to you, as an educated fellow that i think you are that Official polls are only a minor reflection of the position a nation could possibly have on a certain issue and are far from being accurate. They are not to be trusted.
However, A lack of an official poll in iran, confirms the fact that freedom of speech has long been absent in iran, as you said, But that is all it means.

Anonymous8 and Mammad, 

Anonymous8 and Mammad, 

The ones who should be shamed for eternity is Iranians (and I’m reluctant to call you humans with conscience, let alone Iranians!) like you who have been standing silent in the face of the daily massacre of our people by the hands of a regime that has defined what the word “evil” means. It is you who are betraying your country its values and its great people by standing with a regime that has killed the soul of our beautiful country. And now you’re coming out bashing Israel as if we don’t know what you are up to. The reasons that people who have a conscience, compassion and a brain criticize Israel is very different that why you people, who have none of the above, criticize Israel. Yours is propaganda. Your contributing to the prolonging of the Israeli Arab conflict by contributing to the agenda of a regime that its existence depends on the prolonging of that conflict, thus, you are responsible for the blood that is being shed in Israel and Palestine.

Mammad , as far as your moronic question about “polling” is concerned, only a moron like you asks for a poll in a country that for 30 years now butchered every possible form of freedom of speech, including surveys and polling. We all know what the truth is. Iranians do not want to see any innocent Palestinian or Israeli blood being shed, but we damn know whose causing it. It’s the IRI regime.

You can continue fooling yourself thinking people don’t know what you’re up to.

Israel is a military state, not a democracy....

Israel is not a democracy. It is a military state that wont last even a week without terrorizing people in all the lands it is occupying. Israel and the IRI are the two sides of the same coin. Both murder people brutally and both are based on fundamentalist religious ideology.

Democaries do not committ mass murder like Israel does. You can fool yourself into believing that Israel is a democracy. The whole world is watching in horror and wondering how some jews have evolved into bloodthirsty maniacs who enjoy killing people and take pride in destroying life.

Just look at the faces of Israeli officials as they are brought on TV to justify their crimes. Faces full of rage and hatred for the world as they know and see that the whole world opposes their murderous ways.

Why is Israel so consumed with hatred? What causes someone, like an Israeli pilot, to drop bombs on children? This should be the subject of many psychological studies in years to come.

Democracy vs. Theocracy

Although the self defense actions of Israel are quickly condemned by hateful Muslims, Israel is still a demecracy!  There is no true democracy in the entire Muslim world. Theocratic forms of government which predominate in the Muslim countries can only resolve their problems with the rest of the world by imposition of their views and exporting terrorism.

This is not the first conflict between democracy--however imperfect it might be--and theocracy--which condemns ALL OTHERS and sees bloodshed as its only way to solve issues--and it will not be the last.

Cowardly Israeli pilots can only kill the defenseless

The thugs who run Israel are nothing but a bunch of criminals. This is not the first time they committ mass murder. It wont be the lst time either. They will continue to committ mass murder until their time is over and a stronger hand will crush them and send them to the dustbin of history.

The Israeli army commanders and their pilots are a bunch of racist, biggotted cowards who can only attack the weak and the defenseless, as they did in Lebanon and as they are doing now. They must be arrested and brought to justice in an international court of law.

Waltz with Bashir

While the entire world is looking down at the Israeli government (which doesn't usually happen) ... a great animation/film just came out made by an Israeli filmmaker/ex-soldier about the Israeli/Lebanese war during 1980's. It's probably going to win an Oscar and it reflects the anti-zion view of majority of people here and around the world. There are many good Jews who are also for human rights against their own government ... Like many Iranians!

Shalom this and shalom that, camp this and camp that ...

Hitler and his followers suffer and continue to suffer in their next lives (if there are really any 'next lives'). BUT let's hope that some of these jews stop taking advantage of this sad history of the Holocaust. If you get into an intellectuall argument with a Jew, let's hope that jew doesn't indirectly refer back to the WWII and insinuate that you are a Nazi. And lets hope that hope doesn't translate into fear, which gives the other debator an advantage. Then again, there are and have been many jews not completely honest with the rest of us. Then again, there are just so many (or maybe too many) jew-hero stories of this kind. //www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2... If israel is willing to spend all the cash (although none of the cash is israeli's, its mostly the US govt) on continuing holocaust stories, then let's hear other stories. or they all can shalom it up their you-know-what.

The Truth if I lie!

The question is not "Hey, why don't you cry when Hamas sends rockets on Israel?" - Hamas is a band of extremists created by Mossad in October 1987. According to Zeev Sternell, historian at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, "Israel thought that it was a smart ploy to push the Islamists against the Palestinian Liberation Organisation (PLO) She hence created Hamas."

Beside "why really Israel gave arms to a band of extremists?" The real question is "Why, Israel constructs walls like in Ghettos, puts up blockades, establishes curfews, and deprives people from food and water and does arbitrary killings"?

Thousands of jews demonstrated against Israel's destruction of

Gaza. Amid cries of "Jews and Arabs refuse to be enemies!" and banners reading, "Enough!" thousands of Israelis took to the streets of Tel Aviv on Saturday night to protest against the country's war on Gaza.

Protesters called for an immediate end to the Israeli attacks, in which more than 450 Palestinians have been killed and around 2,100 injured since air assaults on Gaza began last Saturday.

Organisers, a coalition of groups such as Gush Shalom, the Hadash party and the Coalition of Women for Peace, were encouraged by the turnout. anti-war protesters responding with "The army is a terror organisation!" and "Children in Gaza and in Sderot want to live!"

Dear Mr Kashani

You should feel free to support whomever you wish, but please do not speak for me. I only support human rights and I am against all violators and aggressors. And I am definitely anti-war.

Thank you

IRANdokht

Farhad Kashani

Speak for yourself. I, for one, do not think the way this shameless Zionist propagandist does.

Based on what poll, what evidence, you claim that most Iranians think like this propagandist? You have no shame. I do not believe that you have ever heard or read the word shame - the beautiful word sharm in Farsi.

Have some shame. Speak for yourself. Believe in whatever you want. That is your right. But, do not speak on behalf of others. No one gave you this mission.

Mammad

I Support Anti-Zion

Hi All,
Thanks for all your comments. Zion is only taking your time and he wants just joke around. He was one of the Collaborators from Vichy Government of France.

True Iranians, Thank You! Your voice is heard.

Thanks for taking a clear stance. Thanks for showing integrity and courage in the face of the usual dirty hooligans. A dirty mob that has no arguments, has no logic, has nothing but propaganda, propaganda and character assassination. As is well clear, not one of this mob tackled any of the arguments presented here or in the other blog: //iranian.com/main/node/52091
Not one. All you see is the repetition of the same old stuff all over like a broken record.
What is more eye opening is what is said all over the place in "demonstrations" like these:
//www.youtube.com/watch?v=j3Xl68kP4wo

"Go back to the Ovens".
The true face behind all the pretensions of "humanism" and "peace". Isn't it interesting how similar all this is with the kind of propaganda we all have been attacked by here. It almost looks as if they are all systematically coordinated.

So God bless you who spoke up clearly. Especially in contrast to some who still feel they need to save face by always condemning "both sides". By treating the legitimate defense of a responsible state of its citizens the same as the hate filled murderous attempts of Islamo-fascist terrorists. Thanks for showing them what true integrity is. That faced with the calls to "ovens" you have to take a side. Save face for who? For what?
When are you going to get serious about the world you live in?

NY GAL, Israel broke the cease fire

//transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0812/31/cnr...

...

SANCHEZ: And he said that most news organizations have ignored the possibility that the people who actually broke the ceasefire was not the Palestinians, not Hamas in Gaza. What he said — in fact, let — I think we’ve got it. Dan, play this, and then we’ll give you some more information on it. Let’s go ahead and go to that.

(BEGIN VIDEO CLIP)

MUSTAFA BARGHOUTI, PALESTINIAN LEGISLATOR: The world press community or media community is overwhelmed with the Israeli narrative, which is incorrect. The Israeli spokesperson have been spreading lies all over. The reality and the truth is that the side that broke this truce and this ceasefire was Israel. Two months before it ended, Israel started attacking Rafah, started attacking Hanunis (ph), and never lifted the blockade on Gaza. Gaza remains without fuel, without electricity, with bread, without medications, without any medical equipment for people who are dying in Gaza — 262 people died, 6 people because of no access to medical care. So Israel broke the ceasefire.

(END VIDEO CLIP)

SANCHEZ: And you know what we did? I’ve checked with some of the folks here at our international desk, and I went to them and asked, What was he talking about, and do we have any information on that? Which they confirmed, two months ago — this is back in November — there was an attack. It was an Israeli raid that took out six people.

Now, let me refer you — it’s not just us. We’ve checked in other periodicals. Johnny (ph), go over my shoulder, if you can. Here we go. "The six-month ceasefire started coming apart at the beginning of November after Israeli commandos killed a team of Hamas fighters during a raid on a tunnel they suspected was being dug for kidnapping of Israeli soldiers. That raid set off more Palestinian rocketing." That’s "U.S. News and World Report."

I got another one for you, I believe, here. OK, this is "The Guardian" — questionable, but nonetheless. "A four-month ceasefire between Israel and Palestinian militants in Gaza was in jeopardy today" — this was actually reported when it happened — "after Israeli troops killed six gunmen in a raid in the territory." That’s important to report.

And here we go, as well, from the Economist.com, and the point of contention here is this one. Johnny, one more. "The last straw came in November, when Israelis killed six gunmen it said were digging tunnels to launch a raid onto Israel, spurring Hamas to respond with a barrage of rockets."

So the question as to who started this — and we’ve been hearing that the Israelis say they had to do this because, suddenly, the ceasefire had been broken in Gaza by the Hamas and the Palestinians. Is this now a little more in question?

CLANCY: You know, that is absolutely true. But just as true is the fact that if Israel hadn’t started shooting first in this case — and Israel said, We had security reasons, imminent security reasons. There was no real deal here between Hamas and Israel. Israel still reserved the right to go in to do any attack where there was a primary security interest there. And they said, Our soldiers were going to be kidnapped. We had to do it.

SANCHEZ: But you know, I guess what it is — Americans, we like our order. We want things delineated for us. We like to see a quid pro quo. They’re saying this happened. Are they right? And they’re saying this happened. Are they right? It’s almost like we’re left — when you talk about the Middle East, you’re left with such subtleties that sometimes everything is a vagary.

I support Zion

I hope this time Isreali army destroy hamas and all other islamic terrorists. I was a political prisoner in Iran twenty years ago.everytime one of those disgusting hamas leaders or members appear on TV screen it reminds me of cruelty of iranian islamic revelotionary forces. They look exactely the same. same mentality, same unhumanity, same hatred for freedom and human rights. For those complaning about Isreal attack who first broke cease fire? it was Hamas.Hamas wanted war, so they got it. IF Pelastinian people do not like war , take to the streets of Gaza and kick Hamas forces from the Gaza. Isreal country does excist. nobody can deny it. Hamas and pelastinias must accept isreal excistance and try to live peacefully.

Mr. Kashani

Once you are done praising Zion and Israelis genocidal actions in Gaza, take a look at these two news items. Hopefully they will open your mind and heart to the truth.

//iranian.com/main/news/2009/01/03/ground-tro...

//iranian.com/main/news/2009/01/03/it-now-all...

-YT aka capt_ayhab

Palestine/Israel is the center of all issues...

The root of ALL Mid-East problems begin with the Israeli/Palestinian issue. Anyone that says worry about Iran "first" is naive and hasn't read enough or traveled in mid-east to say the least.

Stop forcing star of David down occupied muslim territories and you'll have a bit more credibility to win support. Till then this zion mion mumbo jumbo stuff only justifies the actions of Hamas and Hezbollah. No justice no peace.

Kashani, your words have no meaning

you represent no one, don't talk about what most Iranians believe. You are a disgrace to humanity.

Shame on all those who

Shame on all those who support Israeli occupation, aggression, killings, and murders. Israel has stolen Palestinians' land, has made 4 million people prisoners in their own land, has denied them the basic human needs, and is expected these people not to defend themselves!
Shame on Israel and everyone who defends this criminal state.
See "Palestine is still an issue," by John Pilger.

Zion,   I support you

Zion,

I support you 100% for putting the IRI cause at the forefront of issues we Iranians need to care about. Israel and Hamas and Ghaza shouldn’t even be in the top 5! We will support innocent people wherever they’re at, whether in Ghaza or Tel Aviv, and we all wish the killing on both sides to stop and we wish for two states living side to side in peace, but, most importantly, we know that we have a much bigger fish to fry.

I know that the reasons the few IRI supporters on this try to put Israel as the forefront issue is to divert attention from the real issue which is IRI. That’s why they are screaming on top of their lounges about Palestinians getting killed, but they are dead silent when it comes to Iranians getting massacred by the IRI.

Bottom line Zion aziz, most Iranians think like you in the sense that we have our own fish to fry, and they understand that these crying wolfs by these IRI supporters are nothing but propaganda, and they ain’t foolin anyone! So, aziz, keep up the good work, and keep speaking out against IRI’s brutal oppression of Iranian people, and always know that we all support you, and don’t let these few bad apples get to you. They are vicious, uncivilized and definitely have ill intentions, we all know that, but keep what you doing and the Iranian people will prevail at the end when the IRI regime is no longer. And also at that point, we will all see how quick Israel and Arabs will come to peace. 

Fereydoon.... Your GENOCIDAL HEROS

Fereydoon

Yet another clip about your GENOCIDAL Israeli HEROES shooting unarmed innocent people. it is a graphic video but you need to watch it to see the truth about your HEROES.

Feraydoon Demehri

Feraydoon,

For you to be so one-sided and in your assessment of the situation, tells me how detached you are form real news and events of the world.

Take a look at this video, and you will see how YOUR BRAVE ISRAELI heroes treat defenseless Palestinian youth.

All I have to tell you is shame on you and your blind ignorance about suffering of innocent people under GENOCIDAL and blood thirsty Zionist regime.

-YT

Kourosh bidar sho que ma khabim

Play the card of the Holocaust is the best way to deal with the actual problems of Israel. Boaz Evron, an Israeli writer, shows that the Holocaust is an arm in the hands of Zionists to unify Jews and to persuade Israelis not to emigrate.

The fact is that Israelis and their supporters constantly invoke the Holocaust because of the Occupation, and the horrible things that Israel has made and continues to make to the Palestinians. The Holocaust is the weapon that the Israelis and their supporters in the Diaspora, use to repel any criticism and allow Israel to continue to commit crimes against Palestinians. Everything is reduced to the Holocaust, everything is measured by the Holocaust, and therefore anything goes - be it the walls, the Wall, blockades, curfews, the platforms, deprivation of food and water, arbitrary killings. Everything is allowed, because Jews experienced the Holocaust and not the Goyims, So who will tell them what to do !

The wrong turn that Israel took returns to the 1960s, the Eichmann trial, in the Six Day War, and everything that happened in the meantime. It goes even further - remember the first intifada erupted in December 1987 - it was the decade of the transition between the mythology of the State pioneer and crimes it done. The pattern seems clear: the Holocaust was the main weapon that the Israelis (and their supporters abroad) used to cover horrors that Israel has committed (and continues to inflict) to the Palestinians in the occupied territories.

Are anti-zionism and anti-semitism related? No, absolutely not. Why:
The leaders of the Yishuv (the Jewish community in Palestine before the creation of Israel) had hardly moved a finger to address the extermination of Jews in Europe when it occurred . They didn’t want to waste energy in emotions and were focused on the construction of the Jewish state. They were zionists but were they anti-semite ? If you consider that Holocaust deniers are anti-semites (anti-humans in general) and that ignoring the reality is equivalent to its denial ... So yes, these zionist leaders were anti-semites.

Demonstration against Israel's crime against humanity grows arou

nd the world. Rallies are being held in London, Paris, Berlin, Rome, Athens and several Asian cities, following similar events in parts of the Muslim world on Friday.

In central London, protesters - including the singer Annie Lennox and former mayor Ken Livingstone - marched along the Embankment to Trafalgar Square. Some chanted "Free, free Palestine" and "Israel terrorists".
Many stopped en route to throw hundreds of shoes at the gates of Downing Street, echoing the protest of an Iraqi journalist who threw his shoes at President Bush last month.