After the millennia of the Exile, Jews are not used to sovereignty. Jews developed a habit of appealing to policeman: to protect their ghetto before, to protect their state now. And so the Israeli lobby bends over backwards to garner international support for sanctions against Iran. Just in case someone has missed it: Iran lives under sanctions for the last 29 years, since its Islamic revolution. The touted third round of sanctions is as senseless as the other two: it would freeze some empty bank accounts and impose travel ban on those who can travel under any name they choose. The sanctions are illegal, too: why should Iran, a member of Non-Proliferation Treaty, be punished for acquiring civic nuclear technologies if the US officially acknowledged that Iran has no military nuclear program? In the interconnected world, sanctions are never efficient, especially the import sanctions: Iran can transship its imports through UAE, Syria, or any other country, and use UAE banks and even havala money changer networks for financial transactions. The only efficient sanctions against Iran would be export sanctions, banning oil purchases from that country, but no one cares so much about the Jews as to pay extra at gasoline stations.
Indeed, why should anyone care about Jews? Does any Jew who read about Holocaust honestly cares about Gypsies killed in the death camps? Why should a French company refrain from making a quick buck in transactions with Iran? We the Jews had no problem cooperating with South Africa in developing nuclear bomb, or helping Latin American dictatorships to keep their population in check. When Russia sells missiles to Syria, and America – advanced weapons to Saudi Arabia, why should not Siemens build a telecom network in Iran? Besides, if Siemens won’t do that, Samsung will, or one of the telecom start-ups in Eastern Europe.
Jews can claim Holocaust, compassion, basic human decency – and even make the Western governments pay lip service to those notions, but in the end the governments know they have no fiduciary obligation to the Jews. In fact, most of their constituents would even enjoy if the Jews are fried in the nuclear blast.
Other countries need not fear nuclear Iran. There is no way that Iran would nuke America, Russia, France, or Egypt – both for the fear of overwhelming retaliation and simply because it has no reason to attack. The horror tales of Iran selling nukes to international terrorists are nonsense: Iran did not even allow Hezbollah to use Zelzal-2 rockets in the 2006 Lebanon war. The only countries which have a good reason to fear nuclear Iran are Israel and Iraq.
Sanctions against Iran are a classic example of “quiet diplomacy,” the quintessential Judenrat policy which invariably failed: it did not stop pogroms in tsarist Russia, caused Allies to save the European Jews, or freed the Soviet Jews. Quiet diplomacy requires Bismarck’s brains and Germany’s stature. Jews should loudly pound at the doors, preferably with bombs.
Israel can bomb Iran, suffer the consequences, and reestablish her international stand and deterrence for another twenty to thirty years. Or she can rely on the foreign powers to do the job they don’t have to do, and appear in disregard, surrounded by nuclear Arab states and eventually fried by one of them.
The biggest problem, however, is not Iran, but the nuclear weapons of Islamist Pakistan and rogue North Korea.
We must stop evil .Were ever It is; stop It In its tracks .Iran threatens the jewish state We will go In and yes we will take their nuclear arms .And set the people of Iran free by we I mean America we will fight Its just around the corner .
How do we stop Pakistan with it's 55 nuclear bombs????
Underneath all ideologies and religions are just human beings. All have the same longings, hopes, fears, pains and pleasures. We also share the same anger, hatred, the same hypocrisy, selfishness, egoism, ambition ignorance and stupidity. We love life, and are suicidal at the same time.
Religions and ideologies are like clothes they can be changed. They are not our essence, in fact they are all garbage, they are all related to the past, not to the present moment.
The only thing that can save humanity is a new religion, one that replaces all those old tribal religions with one truth that is recognizable by all.
A new religion has to acknowledge everything that is beautiful and valuable in the old religions and discard of all garbage. 90% of all religions is garbage, but people are not ready to let it go, because of the 10%.
The 10% which is true, is universal. Just like Geometry is for all humans, not just Greek, so is anything spiritually true for all people, not just Hindus, Jews, or Christians.
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If we try to stop Islamic fascists by force alone, we will fail.
With that comment, we present to you Ray Bright, president (appointed by "pope" ) of the NWO One-World-Religion.
Ray — Would you look at my "Premises" in "Judaism, Christianity, Jesus and Moses" in the Forum and tell me if you agree? It would be a minor start in developing your new religion. Or maybe just post a statement of what you think the universally accepted 10% "truth" is. Unfortunately, I believe one truth is that, in this world, only force, or the credible threat of force, accomplishes anything politically.
I can't even see why western countries and Israel fear my homeland Iran… And why Iraq should.
We have jews living in harmony with other Iranians in Iran itself.
And YES, the controlled mass-media has misintepretated Ahmadinejad regarding "wipe Israel off the map"…
That's an illusion the controlled media want's the people of the United States of America to yet once more live in fear.
Can't you see the repeating pattern, especially ever since their dearest inside-job 9/11?
Israel, fear not. I know my people too well and I am a guy with great sense of this world. (yes, laugh all you can if that seems amusing)
Btw, do you really think either Pakistan or North-Korea would just "use" their nuclear weapons in any way they see fit?…
People ARE not that crazy, at least not governments…
North-Korea wouldn't stand a chance and neither would Pakistan.
But the Bush-regime is, and all they care about is money, money, money… and yet more money.
Oh, I got a good laugh out of this.
Yes, the Americans are always the evil ones.
Just tell me, Hammid - If Iran is such a responsible and well-wishing country, why are you living in Sweden?
Hammid — Are you saying that Ahmadinejad did NOT say "wipe Israel off the map"? If he said it, I don't see how there is much room for misinterpretation.
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As for what governments would do and how crazy they are, that is the good thing about the godless communists, like the Soviet Union, the Chinese and the North Koreans: They do not believe in an afterlife, so they really do not want to blow up the planet. Ahmadinejad, however, not only believes in the afterlife, he also believes that he can help hasten the return of the "Mahdi" by starting Armaggedon. He is insane.
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Also, for those who are somehow unaware, let me point out the obvious: The US mainstream media HATE President Bush and were and are still against the war in Iraq (and anything else the President does). This is why we can be sure 9/11 was NOT an inside job — the media would expose it to take Bush down.
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I personally do not like President Bush's policies on many issues. That being said, money, in and of itself, is not evil. Even if that were his only motivation (which I do not believe), that cannot be compared to a nut-case like Ahmadinejad's motivation to bring about the end of the world so his "Savior" can climb back out of a well.
The bush administration has spent more money than all the previous administrations put together. War is expensive. It is irrational to say they are fighting to get rich. The USA is in serious, maybe terminal; debt. Iran and Iraq arn't exactly kissing cousins. There is a serious sh'ite -sunni rift there. One faction…the one going nuclear, believe that they must create an apocolyptic event before there future leader climbs out of a well (Mohammed returning?). These things are not a secret. Iran funds terrorism, but not quite as much as the E.U through funds paid to the P.A.
Israel needs to be proactive because the rest of the world is too easily manipulated by being told that we arn't being very nice. God be with you, Israel. [MODERATED]
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Why is the worlds fourth largest producer of oil needing to go nuclear to generate electricity?
The world does not hate the Jews; Israel enjoys a very strong position among American Christians. That said, I do agree that pagan, liberal Europe has their heads firmly in the sand as do liberal dhimmis in the US. The above new religion chump is a prime example of how relativist values blind such arrogant morons to anything close to the truth; quite unwilling to bow to a Superior authority, they pretend that truth does not exist. And because of their moral irresponsibility and vast mis-judgment of human nature, the nature of Islam (pure evil, wicked lie) they are also unwilling to confront it because, after all, why lose my life for something that is not true, they say. Moral cowards and physical cowards.
As for the Swedish Iranian, what kind of a culture seeks to attempt to cast fear into the hearts of Americans? Great religion, there, loser. How about apologizing for taking Americans hostage back a few decades ago? And guess what? Iran doesn't scare us. We can and will throw Iran out with the trash that it is.
I love this site. I'll be back.
I can't really tell for Christians, but from my experience American Protestants, Baptists, and Catholics are very anti-Semitic generally. Now that's called anti-Israeli. The Evangelicals are different in that regard.
Basically, I don't see a reason why Christians would cease being anti-Semitic by a mere act of moving from Europe to North America two centuries ago.
Hammid, don't be a lying joker. The Iranian press reported on Achmedinejad's comments and translated them as "wiped off the map" just like the western translators did. This was and still is available on the Iranian state media website. I won't bother posting the link because you already knew this was true, you deceptive coward.