Zionism and Iranian Jews

Just today as I was sitting in my Torts class, I was bored and I decided to read some of the blogs that belong to anti-Israel and anti-Zionists groups. There was one argument regarding how the Jews in Iran are so happy and they hate Israel and how they don’t support Israel and they love Iran more than Israel.

Then I came across people who were somehow using some foreign statistics regarding the number of the Jews who lived in Iran prior to 1979 and also the number of Jew who currently reside in Iran.

I would like to bring this subject to my own blog. See, Iranian Jews in Iran have been and will always been the biggest Zionists supporters around the globe. If under pressure, with intimidation from Iranian government, these people make statements against Israel, it doesn’t mean they are pro-Islamic republic of Iran. All my Jewish friends who live in here now or they lived in Israel, our biggest fantasy and dream was to visit Israel one day and join IDF. Even today, when most of us reside in the U.S., we still have full support for Israel.

The other side, always try to utilize an argument against Zionism and portray how Iranian Jews are against Zionism. They will utilize any tool in their hand trying to discredit the existence of Israel. One of these tools is portraying how Jews are against Zionism. My message to them is: dream on! Just because of small minority of spoiled Jews in the U.S who are against Zionist, doesn’t mean all Jews especially Jews in Iran are against Zionism.

But why do they try so hard trying to disconnect Zionism and from Jewish support? The reason is very simple: to try escape the reality that most of their view is simply anti-Semitic. They are trying to portray that their view is not anti-Semitic. Even though they hate Zionists more than anything because it is an ideology that calls for a Jewish nation that defends Jews, they still claim that it doesn’t have the right to exist. However, it is very apparent from the actions of Islamic Republic and a lot of Arab countries (for example Holocaust Denying Conference), and many of these anti-Zionist groups, that these groups ARE anti-Semitic.

Iranian Jews have flourished very well in Israel and in the United States. It is the perfect proof to show that Jews in Iran are oppressed because they are always held back in every aspect of the society. Any action to try to hide these facts is just a pathetic way of excusing their own ignorance toward Israel and Iranian Jews.

Israeli Defense Forces In Second Lebanon War

Sharon warned Bush of Saddam threat

Sharon warned Bush of Saddam threat
By HERB KEINON


Former prime minister Ariel Sharon told President George W. Bush ahead of the US-led invasion of Iraq of the dangers Saddam Hussein posed for the region, but also warned him that the Arab world would not be receptive to democracy, former ambassador to the US Danny Ayalon told The Jerusalem Post on Thursday.

Ayalon, who sat in on numerous Bush-Sharon meetings, said the US and Israel held close consultations during the run-up to the war, but that Sharon was very careful not to advocate any particular American action.

Ayalon said he served as "Sharon's watchdog," ensuring that when officials from the Defense or Foreign ministries came to Washington they would give US officials a "true analysis, but never cross the line of recommending policy."

Israel, Ayalon said, did not tell the Americans what they should do, since Sharon was "astute and careful enough" to realize that this could lead to future accusations that Israel led the US into Iraq. But, Ayalon said, Bush did receive Sharon's analysis of the situation.

According to Sharon, Saddam was an acute threat, and he supported his analysis by pointing to the Iraqi dictator's conduct during the Iran-Iraq War; his launching of 39 Scud missiles at Israel, and more than 40 at Saudi Arabia, Kuwait and Bahrain, during the first Gulf War; his material and logistical support for terrorists; and his track record of intimidating his neighbors.

In addition, Ayalon said the Saddam threat factor was driven home by the intelligence information that "we all shared" that Saddam had weapons of mass destruction, "especially in the chemical area."

Another element involved in these analyses was the fact that despite Israel's bombing of Iraq's Osirak nuclear plant in 1981, Iraq still had the blueprints and technological know-how to create nuclear weapons, "and it was just the matter of finding the right moment to put their program back on track in a fast manner."

Regarding democratization of the region, Ayalon said Sharon told Bush it would take a long time, and "the president understood that this was something that would not be done overnight.

"Based on his intimate knowledge of the Arab world, Sharon was skeptical of the idea that Arab societies were ready to receive democratic culture," Ayalon said.

Former Sharon spokesman Ra'anan Gissin, meanwhile, said Sharon "used his expertise on guerrilla warfare" during his discussions with Bush, and advised that before trying to impose democracy on Iraq it was necessary to bring about stability.

Gissin said Sharon told Bush that whatever he decided, the US would eventually leave the region, but Israel would have to stay and deal with the consequences of US action or inaction.

Gissin described one meeting where Sharon gave Bush a "lecture on how to deal with counterinsurgency," and discussed with him in detail the need to isolate Iraq, prevent the flow of money and weapons and keep the insurgents under constant pressure.

According to Gissin, Sharon was adamant that no Israeli official should speak publicly about what the US should do. However, he said, in the private meetings Sharon warned against "putting the cart before the horse, and said that there can't be democracy without stability."

Gissin said Sharon also warned Bush that democratization would drive a wedge between the US and its moderate Arab allies in the region - Egypt, Saudi Arabia, Jordan and the Persian Gulf countries - who were worried about what this democratization would mean for their regimes.


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This is for those anti-semitic and anti-Israel morons who said the U.S. went to Iraq because of the Zionists. This is for the leader of KKK, Cindy Sean and her supporters, and any of those morons who said Israel was encouraging the U.S. led invasion to Iraq. I call those people anti-semitic because anti-semites used to blame everything on the Jews; anything that would go wrong in thier plans, it was the Jews fault. These days, this group of people from extremely left to far far right (like KKK) blame Zionist for the failures in Iraq.