Tara

London demonstrator: "As a Jew, it's very moving to see so many

who are so outraged at Israel's actions," Alexie Sayle said. "Israel is a democratic country that is behaving like a terrorist organization."

In London, at least 10,000 people, many carrying Palestinian flags, marched past Prime Minister Gordon Brown's Downing Street residence to a rally in Trafalgar Square. Outside Downing Street, hundreds of protesters stopped and threw shoes at the gates that block entry to the narrow road. //news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090103/ap_on_re_mi_ea/eu_europe_gaza_protests;_ylt=ApwreGdi3evRhPkLEC8SKGQLewgF

Tara

The enablers of hammas executed 2 people by stoning in beheshteh zahra few days ago, since the signing of petitions are very effective, could you please sign another one to stop it.

Thank you Tara

Right on sister. We need way more people like you in this world.

Sam, Mort / Tara

Tara I just came to thank you for the post, I am a non-Iranian American of Eastern European Jewish descent. I wanted to tell you that based on a suggestion by Irandokht in a newsfeed of hers yesterday I encouraged the people on Q's blog, which is right now the highly commented one on this burning issue, to write to Ms. Rice. It will no doubt be ineffective as lame ducks shall continue to quack very loudly but at least it IS a symbolic assertion of the will of the people.

S, M, This humanitarian crisis has been declared by Amnesty International, INCLUDING the affected Israelis, and the UN wishes to send monitors but Israel vacilates. SURELY you do not beiieve that the majority of UN members support the IRI???!!! They loathe this government. They recently came out overwhelmingly against capital punishment. Only the Shariah countries and a few little islands obviously dependent on US aid, and of course this great nation with Mr. Bush,  who as governor made Texas one of the highest execution rate entities in the world, and a couple other countriess opposed this stance. Considering this, you can imagine how overwhelming UN opinion (I think it was 70% of nations) feelss about crane hangings, stonings and the like.

If you are so concerned about the overthrow of the IRI and do not support people's involvement in this humanitarian issue you are making a grave error, because when the time comes, even IF IRI is overthrown from within, it will inevitably be the UN which is the peacekeeping force there and monitors the interim government which will be quite shakey for a time. Otherwise our goose is cooked (to extend the fowl metaphor...) because you will probably see rivers of blood.

And THE UN WILL DO THIS OUT OF HUMANITARIAN CONCERNS.

I ask you first to examine the errors in your strategic political thinking and its inherent contradictions; and next to VERY CAREFULLY examine your conscience.

Surely you have heard of the Bouramand sisters. Children of a liberal-minded member of the Shah's government and themselves at first involved in the Revolution, they DEPLORED the executions of the Shaahis and withdrew from revolutionary activity, REGARDLESS of who the executed were and god knows what tortures they may have inflicted on the left.

The Bouramand sisters did not withdraw from revolutionary activity because they'd stopped being left-leaning, it was the other way around. Their change of heart came OUT OF HUMANITARIAN CONCERNS.

Samsam I'd love to talk to you all  night about the Aryan roots of Iran and so on now that I'm (unexpectedly) here again, and defend you against the people who say this is racist or you're living in the past...and so on...but...in this case you are being thoroughly unreasonable and hard-hearted.

Best,

Roxane

it's all about humanity

Tara jan

Thank you for standing up for the victims no matter where in the world they'd be. Here is an Amnesty International petition that you could sign too.

peace for all 

IRANdokht

Gaza: Genocide of Palestinians. Zionists and their enablers....

1. "Who Is Occupying Whose Land?" First you have to get the answer to this question straigntened out in your mind. Then, the rest of the pieces will fall into place.

2. What Israel has done to the native people of Palestine is very similiar to the definition of Holocaust. It may not be the exact copy of Nazi Germany's atrocities but it is pretty close. Sending people into concentration camps, Gaza. Closing it to the outside world, Gaza. Killing them in large numbers, Gaza. Stopping the flow of food, drinking water, medicine and supplies, Gaza. Taking their property and land, Gaza.

3. We are talking about the killings of women and children by the Israeli army and it is called Genocide, war crimes and crimes against humanity.

4. Zionists and their enablers logic goes as follows: "but Israel is doing it because of Hamas. Hamas is a reaction to the occupation and not  the cause. 

5. Thank you Tara for defending human rights and exposing the hypocrites.

No, Mort

I will tell them that I was an active member of the One Million Signatures Campaign to end the unfair treatment of women in Iran, demanding equal rights for them.  I will tell them that I supported the Stop Child Executions campaign to save Iranian children from being hung.  I would tell them that I protested human rights abuses in Iran by signing petitions and contacting amnesty and human rights organizations whenever a political prisoner's life was in danger in Iran.  I can't tell them that I saved Iran or that I changed the Iranian regime, if that's what you mean.  But I will tell them that I didn't just sit on the sidelines and watch, either. 

What have you done for the world lately?

re;Wow

Iran? what  Iran? do you mean Nezamah al-Arabiatah Al-Ayaraan..heeh :)..don,t worry , Iran is being milked for Arab cause by their ommati comrades . Gaveh noh man shirdeh . cheers!!!

Wow

What would you say to your children about your stance for Iran?  You want to tell them that you stood for the likes of Hamas leader who had four wives (perhaps three of them were his cousins) when Iranians were being executed by stones.