Anonymous wrote:There’s nothing we can do to stop the bombing of Gaza. I’ve decided that I am now a single issues voter and voting for Jill Stein. I know no one agrees with me on this, but that’s ok. I can’t support either major party.

https://www.jillstein2024.com/pledgetostopgenocide

Anonymous wrote:Hamas is disgusting. Monsters, every one of them.

TEL AVIV—The six Israeli hostages recently slain by Hamas spent their final weeks in a narrow tunnel with a ceiling too low for standing, raising concerns about the remaining captives’ chances of survival.

Israel’s military said the tunnel ran 65 feet under the Gaza city of Rafah and was between 2 and 3 feet wide and just over 5 feet high, with no bathroom, poor ventilation and a metal door at the end. 

https://www.wsj.com/world/middle-east/before-being-killed-israeli-hostages-held-in-tiny-tunnel-with-bottles-for-a-bathroom-4dd06c81?st=jj3avkfje0qhpv0&reflink=article_copyURL_share

Anonymous wrote:Jews have seats in parliament/government now in Iran but some of the Jewish Iranians who remain there don’t recognize Israelis as real Jews. They consider them Russian Jews there to take over Iran? It’s weird but the Iranian Jews and even Iranian Muslims are super patriotic to Iran. I think they even celebrate some pagan rituals that predate Islam and Judaism?? And pisses off the orthodoxy. I’m not sure what happened to Iranian Christianity but I think that always was the least popular religion of the three Abrahamic faiths because of Persia’s famed rivalry with the Roman/Byzantine empire and then the Russian tsar.

Interestingly the Arabs supported the Christian Roman Empire against the then Persian empire due to Christianity being more similar to them religious wise and the Jews supported the Persians.

The Middle East has so much fascinating drama. Because it’s the crossroads to Europe and Asia, it’s always had drama and the history of Jewish and Arab and Persian life there is like one big soap opera that keeps getting renewed with more episodes

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Anonymous wrote:Jews have seats in parliament/government now in Iran but some of the Jewish Iranians who remain there don’t recognize Israelis as real Jews. They consider them Russian Jews there to take over Iran? It’s weird but the Iranian Jews and even Iranian Muslims are super patriotic to Iran. I think they even celebrate some pagan rituals that predate Islam and Judaism?? And pisses off the orthodoxy. I’m not sure what happened to Iranian Christianity but I think that always was the least popular religion of the three Abrahamic faiths because of Persia’s famed rivalry with the Roman/Byzantine empire and then the Russian tsar.

Interestingly the Arabs supported the Christian Roman Empire against the then Persian empire due to Christianity being more similar to them religious wise and the Jews supported the Persians.

The Middle East has so much fascinating drama. Because it’s the crossroads to Europe and Asia, it’s always had drama and the history of Jewish and Arab and Persian life there is like one big soap opera that keeps getting renewed with more episodes

This guy thinks someone in Iran can openly support Israel without any significant consequences….talk about naive.

There used to be lots of Jews in many Middle East countries, you can’t be safely Jewish in any of them anymore. Maybe a small contrarian group for propaganda but not if you want freedom of thought and speech.

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Anonymous wrote:Jews have seats in parliament/government now in Iran but some of the Jewish Iranians who remain there don’t recognize Israelis as real Jews. They consider them Russian Jews there to take over Iran? It’s weird but the Iranian Jews and even Iranian Muslims are super patriotic to Iran. I think they even celebrate some pagan rituals that predate Islam and Judaism?? And pisses off the orthodoxy. I’m not sure what happened to Iranian Christianity but I think that always was the least popular religion of the three Abrahamic faiths because of Persia’s famed rivalry with the Roman/Byzantine empire and then the Russian tsar.

Interestingly the Arabs supported the Christian Roman Empire against the then Persian empire due to Christianity being more similar to them religious wise and the Jews supported the Persians.

The Middle East has so much fascinating drama. Because it’s the crossroads to Europe and Asia, it’s always had drama and the history of Jewish and Arab and Persian life there is like one big soap opera that keeps getting renewed with more episodes

This guy thinks someone in Iran can openly support Israel without any significant consequences….talk about naive.

There used to be lots of Jews in many Middle East countries, you can’t be safely Jewish in any of them anymore. Maybe a small contrarian group for propaganda but not if you want freedom of thought and speech.

Anonymous wrote:Jews have seats in parliament/government now in Iran but some of the Jewish Iranians who remain there don’t recognize Israelis as real Jews. They consider them Russian Jews there to take over Iran? It’s weird but the Iranian Jews and even Iranian Muslims are super patriotic to Iran. I think they even celebrate some pagan rituals that predate Islam and Judaism?? And pisses off the orthodoxy. I’m not sure what happened to Iranian Christianity but I think that always was the least popular religion of the three Abrahamic faiths because of Persia’s famed rivalry with the Roman/Byzantine empire and then the Russian tsar.

Interestingly the Arabs supported the Christian Roman Empire against the then Persian empire due to Christianity being more similar to them religious wise and the Jews supported the Persians.

The Middle East has so much fascinating drama. Because it’s the crossroads to Europe and Asia, it’s always had drama and the history of Jewish and Arab and Persian life there is like one big soap opera that keeps getting renewed with more episodes

Anonymous wrote:Who kicked out the democratically elected government of Prime Minister Mohammad Mosaddegh in Iran in the mid 50s? Oh yeah!! Our favorite three-letter agency.

Prior to that, in the Qajar dynasty--not the last fake, short-lived Pahlavi dynasty, but the actual centuries long Qajar dynasty, the Jews along with other minorities in Iran had a seat in the royal government.

I'm not Persian. I'm just paid attention in my college classes.

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Anonymous wrote:American students are brought up to believe that diversity, equity, and inclusion are fundamental values.

Israel is a fascist ethno-religious state that grants special status to one religious group and oppresses everyone else in the region who is not part of their tribe.

Of course the American youth protest against Israel. There is no reason for them not to, if they are being true to the values on which they were raised.

If Israel is prepared to defend itself on its own, let it have a go. But it shouldn’t be our role to bankroll its special status. Currently we have a government where the two major parties are bought and sold by AIPAC. Jewish leaders boast about this openly so it’s not anti-Semitic to acknowledge the reality.

Tell me about all the non-muslims that live freely in any of Israel's neighborhood (Iraq, Iran, Syria, Egypt...). A significant number of non-Jews (muslim/christian/druze) are Israeli citizens and participate fully in Israeli society. So go ahead and bash Israel... we know what you are doing..

You do not know the history of Iran and Jews.