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just stopped by to thank you MG ...

It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it 
was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness. . .

A wonderful fact to reflect upon, that every human creature is constituted to be that profound secret and mystery to every other. . . . and how the heart of a person is a true mystery.

Soosan Khanums Comment

Reality is clear

Alaaf - Proportion

Believe it or not even until two years ago I used to worship the Jewsish people and think Ahmadi was the devil himself, like so many others here.    Perhaps your current hostility to Israel can be explained by your excess love for Jewish people before. Look, who says the Jewish people should be worshoped or even 'God's chosen people'?   Israel should be treated like any other country in the Middle East with rights and obligations. It is capable of good and also deserves criticism  when it defies international law. Like all countries it has extremists as well.   All of this is about a sense of proportion. Criticise Israel all you like but when people start to question her right to exist and for Jews to live in their ancient homeland then you have crossed the line.     I agree that Israel has a kneejerk reaction towards criticism and will use its power to lobby against anything against her interest but consider at all the provocations against Israel by the Islamic Republic from weapon shipments, support of Hezbollah terror, support of Hamas terrorists, attacks of the Argentine embassy and then ask if it was your country and had some one did this to Iran what would your reaction be?    If you want to stand in solidarity with the Palestinians then fine. This is your prerogative (and there are many things wrong with Israeli policies in relation to occupied territories) but this should not be done at endangering Iran or indirectly confronting Israel by fighting a proxy war. Jews have more in common with Iranians than Paletinians. 

alaaf

The real demonstration of double standards should be laid at the door of the IRI and its supporters in beating their chests for the rights of Palestinians, while at the same time trampling all over the rights of the Iranian people.

Say what you like about Israel (and I'm no fan of their treatment of Palestinians), but at least they treat their own citizens and people decently.

hmmm

good job iIrael

thanks for helping us, in any way you can, so we can reclaim our lost motherland, Persia, from the hands of Satan.  The Islamic satanic menace must be stopped at all costs.  The Iranian nation is ready to throw out the bunch of holligans ruling it.  keep up your good work and help us bring back the glories of Cyrus and Zerrubabel.

"They are no better than IRI in many aspects"

YES Soosan Khanoom, SPOT ON. You got it right and yet Iran get's demonised on a regular basis by the western media while Israel is (more or less) the darling of the mainstream press and gets an annual 2 billion dollars of U.S tax payers. It's that kind of blatant double standards that wakes people up, including myself... Believe it or not even until two years ago I used to worship the Jewsish people and think Ahmadi was the devil himself, like so many others here. 

FYI/Signed, sealed & delivered by Fereydoun Hoveyda

Signed, sealed & delivered by Fereydoun Hoveyda. (The former diplomat participated in the drafting and voting of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights)

pictory: Iranian Jews Celebrate Constitutional Revolution

pictory: Iranian Jews Celebrate Constitutional Revolution

Recommended Readings: 

Esther's Children: A Portrait of Iranian Jews by Houman Sarshar

Signed, sealed & delivered by Fereydoun Hoveyda. (The former diplomat participated in the drafting and voting of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights)

Xerxes: A Screenplay by Ren A. Hakim in an Interview with DK 

He is Awake: Close Up on Cyrus KAR by Darius KADIVAR

We are Awake by Cyrus KADIVAR 

Well definitively more compassionate than some of you folks

Neo Nazi Revisionist Australian Socialite Michelle Renouf presented as "Human Rights" activist debates with Norman Filkenstein about the Tehran Holocaust Conference on Sahar TV. The latter (although known for his staunch critics against Zionism) explains why he dissaproved of this conference and slams Michelle Renouf credentials in the process. in 2006 President Ahmaninejad sets up international conference in Tehran to establish the Truth on the Holocaust (by Robert TAIT (Guardian))

WATCH:

HOLOCAUST A MYTH: Michelle Renouf on Iranian SAHAR TV

Recommended readings:

Iranian Diaspora Intelligentsia Unite Against Islamic Republic's Holocaust Revisionism By Darius KADIVAR

Banalization of history By Darius KADIVAR

SK, it's the worst of times, it's the best of times

It's what you make out it. Cheer up, it gets worse. Storm the reality studios.

GR, with all due respect any rhetoric totalizing of IR's repression can't take into account how for the past 2 years IR, despite its best effort, hasn't  been able to eliminate or subdue people's protests and resistance, but just made it more polarized. However, you're absolutely correct in reminding the fact,- also noted by the Italian-American philosopher Louie Prima-, that " Life Goes On Without Me," cheers

//www.youtube.com/watch?v=CodmlmxpZeQ

GR Aziz

This is the worst of time ...... the world is a mess .... everywhere you turn you see hate ....... you see killings ..... you see injustices ....... you see rape and torture..... Iran being one of them ......... what can I do ?   what can we do ?......It is such a mess that even God can not help ......... how can he ? ..... When we can not help ourselves !!

some say ...... you are poor cause you have no saviour ...  I say poor is the one who needs a saviour  ......

no one on this earth should need a saviour ....... we just need to take our time and think a little bit  .... same here with me  :)

I am signing off now ...... nice talking to you  

SK:

Without you life goes on as usual. The world is not placed on any one person's shoulders. That's a misconception. It's a delusion that can drive some so mad they stop seeing the truth. They even see themselves as saviors.

  I just jumped in the

I just jumped in the middle of unrelated discussions ........ but I am trilled and honored by wining the trophy ......   I hope the other don't mind ........

GR jan, what would you guys do without me ?  it would be very boring .... you do not want to read Fred's blog all day ?   do you ?  

: )  

SK:

I am as cool as you can get. I think you need to coo down a bit. I know what I am talking about. DO YOU? If cooling down means open or closet support for the rapists of IR, you are barking up the wrong tree. I am talking about the hypocrisy of those who try, under different guises, to shut people up by bringing in unrelated issues! I think, as a master of diversions, one trophy must go to you for bringing in other unrelated issues, all the time!

GR

When it comes to raping the trophy goes to Mossad .... other countries including Iran  are just the other nominees ...... 

if we discuss other countries besides Iran that by no means suggests that we are not against injustices that are happening in our own back yard and by that I mean Iran .......

so cool down  and show less allergy to the word Palestine 

peace 

Maybe!

Maybe, Israelis should introduce some of the laws the Islamic Republic practices, such as raping, into their legal system, as well.

Alaaf You are still a lier and Javoon- Read my question before

Making stupid comments.

First, Simorgh555 got it 100% correct. However, still, it is not "illegal"  to marry a non jew in Israel. That is a lie. The problem in Israel is that the orthodox jews have a monopoly on marriage and death issues. You can not get a civil marriage in Israel regardless of your religion you can not even have a conservative rabbi or a reform rabbi to perform a marriage ceremony or burial. So if you are jew, you must go to an orthodox rabbi (only an orthodox rabbi), if you are christian, you must go to a christian priest. If you are a muslim, you must got to a muslim to get married. Naturally, no orthodox rabbi would sanction a marriage between a jew and a non jew. However, there is no official law making such marriage "illegal" were the state would not recognize it. So if you were a jew who married a non jew outside of the country, the state would recognize it. Or, if you were a jew and converted to Islam and married a muslim, the state would recognize it as it is not illegal to convert to another religion in Israel. I don't personally agree with giving monopoly to orthodox rabbis but that is the law and I feel that that is wrong and stupid. But this is not a racial issue it is a religious issue.

Now, if you are a Muslim in Iran, can you convert to another religion and announce it to the world while living in Iran? If you are a muslim woman in Iran, can you marry a christian? Would the Iranian government recognize such marriage?

As to the rape JavoonDeerooz, I did not say the guy deserved a 2 year sentence did I? I did not say it was rape either did I? He for sure did not deserve it.  Mr. Alaaf said that it was "consensual sex". All I questioned was the statement regarding the sex being "consensual". It was not. For some in Israel, sleeping with an Arab is like sleeping with your biggest enemy. Unfortunately, that is the state of mind people have. I don't agree with that either.For some Muslims, Jews and Bahai are still considered najis. Its all wrong. But its not "racial".

Hope I made myself clear.

AI, what kind of Alaf are you smoking?

If a jewish man lies to a jewish woman that he is single and goes to bed with her, will he get 2 years prison term for non-consensual sex?

Iran Is Iranian People's Home!

Iran Is Iranian People's Home! And until the day Iranians establish a democracy and enjoy life, I respect anyone who gives voice to the oppressed Iranian people. Iranians have lost their country to a bunch of mullahs with an inhuman and barbaric ideology. Right now, I hardly find enough time to do something for Iran. Perhas after Iran is free, I'll start thinking about other issues. Arab issues with Israel are Arab issues and must not be used as an excuse to stop those voices which support Iranians. Israel's domestic politics is also an Israeli issue. As an Iranian, I highly appreciate the Israeli authorities' generosity to permit such events to take place on their soil. Unfortunately, we have not seen such gestures from our Arab neighbors. But we saw the support of some Arab countries and the Palestinians for Saddam Hossein. Iranians cannot have a voice inside Iran and many who try to raise their voices against the brutalities of the regime are either murdered in cold blood or arrested, tortured or raped by the IR's authorities.

Alaf

There are some weird laws that exist in the state of Israel as we speak ........ 

They are no better than IRI in many aspects especially concerning women ...... 

Excellent point Simorgh5555

"The reason: Because Lebanon does not want to be swamped with Palestinians and is concerned about its demographic implication if this happens. These are the same concerns which Israel has: rightly or wrongly. "

I should say Arabs did more harm and killed more Palestinians that Israel ...... with friends like this who needs enemy ......

After occupation Israel granted citizenship to all Palestinians .... some accepted and still are living inside Isreal ...... but then Arabs League warned all Palestinians not to give in and to not accept Israeli citizenship ..... They encouraged them so they became refugees.  That piece of crap , the Arab League. started, a fake war against Isreal promising Palestinians the victory ........ As it was predicated and being the joke that the war was it went down the drain. Since then Palestinians became refugees of the world. One country that truly was mean and basically tortured these poor Palestinian refugees was Lebanon.    They treated them like animal and they even have laws passed against them.

Palestinian students are denied enrollment in public educational facilities ....... Also Palestinian refugees  are forbidden from practicing in over 20 different professions. This includes medicine, law, engineering, and pharmacy ......

Payam

"All I wanna say is that - they don't really care about us!" 

Did you know that Michael got into trouble as soon as he sang this song?

and once you step out of your limit ... then they dig into your closet and pull anything out against you !

Alaaff

Why is it so important in your world, to make connections between unrelated events. Namely G to Shagheegheh.

Mardeh hessabi

No one is going to put you in jail in this country for having a one night stand with anyone. Now you say the Judge brought the RApe charge against him . That is totally different. If you go out and rape someone, Then you will get jail sentence or whatever because you raped, not because You are iranian ror from Kauauaua!

Do you Capice??

Charity starts from home!

A society (including its individuals) which is reaping the fruits of a criminal and racist state, which is daily engaging in ethnic cleansing, demolition of homes, economic and social apartheid and regular bombardment of innocent people (which kills mainly women and children) and deprives these same communities of water, sanitation, and medicines, one which systematically expands its illegal settlements through heavily armed fanatic fascist settlers, one which exacerbates the suffering of palestinian mothers who on top of losing their children to this racist machine have to live in abject poverty imposed by a brutal and merciless occupation, and one which is relentlessly pursuing military attacks on surrounding countries (including Iran) is in no place, to preach about justice. I disagree with the notion that most Israelis want to live in peace with Palestinians, I believe a small and courageous minority are, the rest are active participants of a worst kind of racism and nationalism that is reminiscent of the Nazis. It is not their individual rational choice, but the structural necessity of their society. It is the banality of this condition of racism that is most shocking. They are willing to live in peace, but WITHOUT palestinians and other Muslims. Palestinians and Muslims must all die (or somehow disappear) before Israel can live in peace. Their societal guilt is so immense that they need to demonize the "other" (the Iranian, the Arab, the Muslim, the barbarian, etc.) in such liberal events, in order to obtain some temporary calm in their disturbed and unsettling conscience. They can care less about iranian women. They would choose to nuke all of them and the rest in a split second if it was politically viable. They would watch while the women of Iran, just as those of Palestine, die one-by-one (or better yet, in mass) from the Israeli state of the art weaponry and nuclear radiation.

"All I wanna say is that - they don't really care about us!"  

Alaaf - Jewish marriages in Israel

You are  right: All Jewish mariages in Israel must conform to Rabinical laws but in the same way the country does not recognise inter-faith marriages it also does not recognise Liberal or Reform Jewish marriages so the policy is not just discrminatory towards members of other faiths. Those affected are also same sex couples. However, most Israelis who want to marry someone of a different religion will often elope to Cyrpus and then return to Israel and their marriages will be recognised as valid.

There is a difference between a law which is deliberatelty racist and then the other based on a religious law. Although interfaith marriages are not allowed it is not the same as appartheid because that would suggest separate seating areas and public places for Jews and non Jews. There is also no racial purity laws as in South Africa which stop Jews and non Jews from wishing to chose partners of different faiths. 

Finally, you mention the laws are based on race but there are many Ephiopian Jews, soem with Jewish ancestry and some converted who do get married under Jewish law. And there is absolutely no racially  similarity between Ethiopian Jews and the Ashkenazi Jews. 

You are right about Israeli law not being perfect and by no means is it the vanguard of human rights but the same laws which place restrictions on civil society on the grounds of race and religion are prevalent amongst Jordan, Turkey, Malaysia and Indonesia.

But conside this: A Palestinian/Israeli Arab living in Israel cannot enter into a marriage with a Jew but he can become a doctor, claim social security benefts, have the right to vote and become ministers in government. Compare that to Lebanon where most Palestinains are forbidden by law to claim citizenship and enter into professions such as doctors, have the right to vote and forced to live in refugee camps. And these are there Arab brethren no different from one another cutlurally, religiously or genetically. 

The reason: Because Lebanon does not want to be swamped with Palestinians and is concerned about its demographic implication if this happens. These are the same concerns which Israel has: rightly or wrongly.  

Thank You!

Very touching and sad! It is extremely hard for a bunch of barbarians who believe in having sex with little girls, stoning women and have no respect for human rights to understand the pains of Iranian people, in general, and Iranian women, in particular.

Artificial Intelligence

Alaaf, what kind of Alaaf is it that you are smoking?

You Say

"Did you know it is illegal for a none Jew to marry a Jew in Israel?"

That is an absolute lie. 

Then you say: 

"A couple of months ago an Arab man got a 2
years prison sentence for having consensual sex with a Jewish woman.
His only crime was that he lied to her that he was Jewish."

If you lie to someone to get them in bed, is the sex still "consensual" or based on a false pretense? 

Stop smoking Alaaf.