There is no question that Jews have been persecuted against throughout the history. Whether it’s been their own fault or not is not the subject of my post. All I want to find out is what’s so wrong for a group that has been discriminated against for centuries and centuries to have a place that gives them the freedom of being who they are? Muslims have their own lands, Christians have their own safe haven, Buddhists know where they are in majority, and Hindus have their homes. Then, why is it so wrong for Jews to have a haven?
You say why in Palestine? If not there, then, where? If not the UN, how would you resolve it?
If you say NO, Jews should not have their own haven, and they should accept the second class citizen status around the world and be contempt with what they have, I’ll ask, why?
If the entire world was a true democracy, (like what the US constitution provides), then, there would be no persecution for religion, ethnicity etc…But, we know that’s not the case.
So, what’s wrong with Israel and Palestine to co-exist? Why should Israel be wiped off of the map?
The colonialists decided that Jordan is “Jordan”, Saudi Arabia is “Saudi Arabia”, Syria is “Syria”, Iraq is “Iraq”, And Israel is “Israel”. Many say Israel is an apartheid state and is a racist regime? I ask, how would you protect your existence when surrounded by a whole host of nations who are sworn to your elimination?
Many on this site scream their hatred for Israel and Zionism (the movement for creation of a state for Jews). At the same time, these haters of Zionism adore, praise and worship those liberal Zionists who oppose how Israel has chosen to protect her existence.
Many Iranians (me included) are passionately against any aggression against our land. But, how can we blame someone’s rhetoric if we have clearly demonstrated and have acted on another nation’s annihilation?
Many of you guys may have read a lot more, but I’m talking from heart and common sense. Granted, I was born a Jew, but this has nothing to do with that. I would have posted the same if I was the son of an Ayatollah.
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Is it the Religion or Nationality?
by farokh2000 on Mon May 18, 2009 12:43 PM PDTThe question isn't if Israel should exist, but if they are legal on the basis of Religion only.
The origin is based on picking up Jews from Europe and putting them there because they were Jews and they were being abused because of it, no?
If so, whey don't we have nations based on Christians, Muslims, Budahs, etc., etc.?
On top of that, this Government was built on someone else's land. People who were ousted by force to make room for the new State of Israel.
How would anyone like to see a bunch of strangers taking over your home and calling it theirs because they are of certain Religion and they fear abuse by others?
The Government of Israel, has never in it's short History, even tried to make friends with the Land Lords they kicked out to build the Settlements. All they have done is kill them, rape them and steal more land and anything else they could steal.
Of course all of this has been possible, in large part with the help of US Tax Payers. The funds going to them for everything, from Weapons to Kill more, to relocation funds for new Immigrants/arrivals.
Is that fair to the original Land Lords?. That should not even be a question.
BBC your answer is:
by Abarmard on Mon May 18, 2009 11:17 AM PDTچون ما مثالی داريم كه می گه چو ايران نباشد تن من مباد.
شما اسرائيلی ها هم اگر چنين مثالی دارين كه خوب، وگرنه وضع تان با ما فرق می كند.
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by Red Wine on Mon May 18, 2009 10:34 AM PDTايران دخت جان اولن سلام به روي ماهت دوست عزيز.
من هميشه نظرات تو رو ميخونم و اكثرن باهات موافقم.از معدود افرادي هستي كه با چشم باز نظر ميدي و بحث ميكني ولي اين بار بايد بگم كه اين قضيه اسرائيل و غيره بيش از حد در اينجا صحبت ميشه و غالبن به يك نحوي به ايران وصل ميشه.
اين فقط مختص به اين بحث نيست! بحثهاي ديگر مثل اسلام، بهائيت و شيعه هم بيش از حد در اينجا صحبت ميشه و صدي نود درصد در هيچ كدام از بحثها هيچ نتيجه ائي گرفته نميشه و باقي قضايا.
من فكر ميكنم انقدر كه ما از اسرائيل و عربها صحبت ميكنيم و رخشوري مذاهب و سياسيون را ميكنيم ، انها از ما هيچ صحبتي نميكنند و اصلن علاقه ائي به سرنوشت ايران و ايراني ندارند.
هدف بي احترامي نيست ، حرمت شكني در قاموس من نيست... بايد طرحي نو بنا شود.
دست بوس هموطنان ايران پرست هستم.
روز خوبي داشته باشي ايران دخت جان.
شراب سرخ عزیز: بنی آدم اعضای یک پیکرند...
IRANdokhtMon May 18, 2009 10:14 AM PDT
شراب سرخ عزیز و گرامی و دیگر دوستان که در این مورد نظر مشابه دارید:
آخه این موضوع به ایران چه ربطی داره؟ طرف اومده وبلاگ نوشته راجع به وطنش
سوال کرده، مردم هم دارن جواب میدن.
اصلا راجع به ایران نپرسید که شما این
وسط غیرتی میشین و میگین فقط ایران و ایرانی مهمه و راجع به هیچ کس دیگه
و هیچ چیز دیگه نباید نظر بدیم...
کلی بلاگ هست که در مورد ایران و ایرانی نوشتن، یکی هم
اومده راجع به مردم خودش نوشته. در ضمن، وطن دوستی و عرق ملی جای خودش،
دفاع از حقوق بشر جای خودش
IRANdokht
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by Red Wine on Mon May 18, 2009 09:34 AM PDTبه ما چه مربوطه ؟ همشون برن زير گل.سر ايران سلامت.
To: BBC's mulla
by Bavafa on Mon May 18, 2009 09:21 AM PDTThanks but no thanks for the suggestion. My loyalty is not bound to any particular group or nation, it is first and for most bound to humanity, justice and fairness.
I agree that the Iranian's house is in some what of a disorder but that is an issue for the Iranian who live in Iran to deal with and it is an internal issue. If Iran ever occupies another country, brutalizes their people and steal their livelihood, I will be speak against it just the same.
P.S.
I agree with Nina1, I am also an atheist, what about a home land for us.
Mehrdad
Well said!!
by Anonymous BBC Duke (not verified) on Mon May 18, 2009 08:52 AM PDTThank you Captain Ayhab
you said it well.
To me, Zionist and IR are of same cloth. To me both are criminal entities which must be rectified. It is up to the nationals of both countries to take steps in correcting this disease which is called extremism, whether it is Jewish extremism or Muslim extremism.
PS: Good thinking IRANdokht! why is it that nobody speaks Farsi on this blog?
Question not defined fair!
by capt_ayhab on Mon May 18, 2009 08:40 AM PDTThis is an interesting and provocative question, however in my opinion it has not been asked properly.
First of all, EVERYONE[Muslims, Jews, Christians, Baha'is EVERYONE], have the God given right to freedom peace and security. Hence we need to separate rights of every human being from the political bodies[such as IR, Zionist, communist etc.] to be able to look at this objectively.
In past 60 years since British mandate, Israel has been in war with every single one of their neighbors. She has occupied lands, terrorized people, killed, bombed, separated, discriminated, starved, raped and ransacked everything they could get their hand on.
What has been the reaction to this by neighboring countries, in particular Palestine? Their reaction has been as any other human being would react, to defend their LIVES and FAMILIES to the best they could.
Result? 60 years of aggression[which is called self defense], 60 years of resistance[ which is labeled terrorism]. total instability in the region and the world, and 1000's upon 1000's dead from both sides., and millions displaced and homeless.
Opposition has never been toward Jews, but the Israeli and Zionist policies. Israel and extremist Zionist has stripped the people around them from right to exist and their actions in past 60 years been proof of this. Why should not Palestinians have the same right of existence? Why should not Iran have all the means to protect herself? WHY?
These are the reason why so much animosity have been directed toward Israel, and not the Jews. Israeli policy has been to silence every criticism of her policies, even when they are Israeli national. proof? Latest house bill in USA regarding hate crimes. Why criticizing Israeli actions and Zionist occupation policy should be a hate crime?
To me, Zionist and IR are of same cloth. To me both are criminal entities which must be rectified. It is up to the nationals of both countries to take steps in correcting this disease which is called extremism, whether it is Jewish extremism or Muslim extremism.
Regards
-YT
BBC
by BBC (not verified) on Mon May 18, 2009 07:54 AM PDTthe true question is should Iran exist aswell?
Yes, why not
by Tahmine1 (not verified) on Mon May 18, 2009 06:47 AM PDTI have not read the blog but my answer to the question is yes, but with Jews and Palestinians both. Both should respect each other and the Palestinians should be given all the occupied lands.
Mehrdad
by BBC's Mullahs (not verified) on Mon May 18, 2009 03:03 AM PDTI suggest you go and worry a little more about Iran and a little less about the "plight of the Palestinians!"
We Iranians are really a bunch of dimwits at times. Why not let the filthy RICH Arabs worry more about the poor Arabs? After all, during the Iran-Iraq war, your "poor" Palestinians HELPED Saddam Hussein's army rape Khoramshahr and Ahvaz!!! As Arafat famously once said, "Iranians are our friends, but Iraqis are our brothers."
Seriously, when our house (Iran) is in such disorder, why do we worry about our neighbors so much?! Let's fix our own broken home FIRST, and only then maybe we can bleed for the Palestinians who really don't give a shit about Iranian people!!!!
What about me
by Nina1 (not verified) on Sun May 17, 2009 11:30 PM PDTI am an atheist. My kind has been hated and persecuted throughout the HISTORY. We have been burned at stake, hanged, shot at, tortured …etc. Why not kill or kick out the whole population of a country and give their land to me. I deserve to have a country.
This is not an analogy; it’s a true question with the same simplistic logic as yours.
Bavafa clarified it for you in a different way, read it again.
SamSam
by Toofaan (not verified) on Sun May 17, 2009 11:11 PM PDTI am with you long live Israel marg bar IR zendeh baad Iran.
I don't know whether Israel
by Anonymoses (not verified) on Sun May 17, 2009 10:36 PM PDTI don't know whether Israel should exist or not, but the matter of fact is that it EXISTS right now and no pretending is going to make it /go away/.
"Jews should not have their own haven, and they should accept the second class citizen status around the world and be contempt with what they have..."
This is the argument that is made most often used. My problem with this is that there are TONS of people that are second class citizens around the world, people of all religions and colors and etc. You want to speak of second-class citizens? Look at women. You can't escape discrimination, you can only prolonging the time it reaches you. Just like anybody else Jews should work within their own nations to break the cycle.
I think a most comparable group might be the Jehovah's Witnesses have also been severely and horribly discriminated throughout their short history (they were imprisoned in Nazi death camps, in russian gulags etc) just like Jewish people globally, they're of different ethnicities and languages and etc. (and as much as Jewish people like to pretend, you a blonde haired, blue eyed Jew ARE NOT the same race as dark haired, dark skinned Indian Jew)...
Now say one day they all Jehovah's Witnesses decide to violently take over the birth place of the religion "Pennsylvania" and some of the surrounding states and declare it a JW state (rename it to Yehowistan) where if you are from anywhere in the world and are a JW you are granted citizenship... but if you are from the non-JW native population you are either exiled with no form of citizenship, or confined to camps along the borders along and bombed every few years. And that's just for starts.
There is something fundamentally wrong is there not? That people are prevented from living and having the basic rights in their country of birth and ancestry, and someone else from somewhere who has not had any connections with the land for a coupla-thousand-years can come and live merrily.
Anyway, here are some two articles you might find interesting:
"Do I think it ridiculous that Viennese and Russian and German scholars and doctors should have vibrated to the mad rhythms of ancient so-called prophecies rather than helping to secularize and reform their own societies? Definitely." //www.slate.com/id/2191193 (Christopher Hitchens -- not exactly a Iranophile)
"Sixty years on, the country is facing a choice of two futures: it can be Jewish or democratic -but not both... Israel approaches its 60th anniversary facing another potential war with Hezbollah and the menacing possibility of a nuclear-armed Iran. These threats tend to overshadow the fact that, unless Israel can disentangle itself from the West Bank, or is prepared to expel most of the Arabs who live there, its very future as a state that is both Jewish and democratic is doubtful." //www.macleans.ca/world/global/article.jsp?co... (A Israeli perepective)
If I was a Jew, I would have been ashamed of Israel
by Bavafa on Sun May 17, 2009 10:19 PM PDTMe and my family really deserve to have a house our own as some have, so it would be OK to come and kick the hell out of you and your family, throw you out of your house so we can have a house of our own. But that is not enough, my uncle, aunt and their kids deserve to have a house too so we can all be near one another so lets kick the rest of your relatives out too, so my clan can all be in the same neighborhood.
How do you feel?
Speaking from my heart: what really gets me, is the manipulation and the victimization game. One would have thought that after what happened to these people during the WWII, which is absolutely despicable and I can not condemn it enough, they would be after a system that never allow such things to happen to any one yet they are doing the very similar thing to the Palestinians.
Mehrdad
موضوع اصلی
IRANdokhtSun May 17, 2009 08:48 PM PDT
موضوع اصلی در این نیست که پیروان موسی حقی
دارند یا نه، موضوع اینست که تصاحب ملک دیگری و کشتار دست جمعی مردمی که
در آن منطقه زندگی میکردند بر خلاف اصول انسانیست. وقتی نواحی اشغالی را
در نظر بگیرید و ببینید که چگونه مردم را از خانه و مزرعه خود بیرون کردند
و به هر اسراییلی اجازه حمل اسلحه داده اند تا به قولی از حقوق خودشان
دفاع کنند آن هم در منطقهای که به زور و خلاف قانون غصب کرده اند،
میبینید که مشکل مذهب ایشان نیست بلکه زور گویی و خونخواریست که در حق
مردمی دیگر میکنند.
این روضه خونیها و ننه من غریبم بازیها تغییری در حقیقت مطلب نمیدهد.
IRANdokht
Yes she should & she shall
by SamSamIIII on Sun May 17, 2009 07:48 PM PDTThe Jew have sided with true Iran for a 1000 yrs up to Qadesiyeh , has been a dedicated ally & a silent guardian of our Iranic heritage & remains up to this day the most natural friend of true Iran . They deserve a land they call home & one day true Iran will resurrect and claime her land away from seeds of Qadesiyeh to side with her Jewish brothers & sisters to rebuild a better world on ashes of bloody Zahaak .
Cheers pal !!!
//www.iranianidentity.blogspot.com/
//www.youtube.com/user/samsamsia