Pro-Israel Jewish activists and Free Iranians making common cause? Not surprising at all.
Would regime change in Iran mean a complete turn around from Iran's culture of hate? Well, not overnight (depending on who takes over), but any turn toward freedom of expression can't help but to have long term positive effects.
It at least presents a future, while the present reality presents none.
Pro-Israel Jewish activists and Free Iranians making common cause? Not surprising at all.
Three years ago, on the eve of the 5th anniversary of 9/11, Mohammad Khatami (Shoah denying Ahmadijihad's predecessor) lectured Harvard's pointy-headed dhimmis on tolerance. Yep. The same mullah who brutally suppressed student protests but whom the Harvard crowd still consider to be a progressive reformer.
There was a demonstration in front of the Kennedy School of Gummint where Khatami spoke. The protesters were evil Zionists together with some Iranian students and ex-pats. Plus the antisemitic, Jew-hating Michael Graham, who spoke briefly with some impromptu remarks. Nappy loved his sign: I'm only in it for the virgins.
I can see that Jews are making common cause with Iranians, but are Iranians making common cause with the Jews, including the Zionists? That I don't know.
I've heard that Iranians don't mind the Jews and they don't like the Arabs. There is more of a chance, perhaps, of good relations with Israel. But I don't assume that they're particularly pro-Zionist. Anti-Islamism does not necessarily mean pro-Zionism, though it helps.
In the 2006 protest against Khatami, Z's & the Iranians planned separately and discovered each other at the demonstration. While there is the possibility of an opening between Israel and Iran because longstanding rivalry between Arabs and Persians and also between Shia (most Iranian Muslims) and Sunni (most Arabs), Iranians are they're still Muslim. Even if not Islamist, their sense of their need to dominate and the accursed, devilish nature of Jews come to them in their mothers' milk. Even if they don't like the Supreme Leader or Ahmewackjob and take a lot of what they say with a grain of salt, it's still the case that they believe a lot of the bad press about Israel, that the "Palestinians" were dispossessed out of Euro-guilt for the Holocaust, etc.
Were Israel to attack Iranian nuke facilities -- Remember the missile-carrying submarines that sailed through the Suez recently? -- Nappy believes that Iranians will rally behind the government; it's a simple matter of nationalism. Iranians are proud of their Persian culture and heritage. Iran's nuke program is nothing new, even if the mullahs kicked it up into high gear in recent years. It was started under the Shah.
Apropos Iranian-Jewish cooperation and solidarity, check out this video from The New York Board of Rabbis about their protest at the UN last week.
Most of it's more of a slide show (still images and text) with a soundtrack than video. Stick it out to the end for the "special message." The music following the shofar blasts is not credited; Nappy guesses it's the Miami Boys' Choir. Nicely done, if you're into that sort of thing. If not, you can always turn down the volume.
There was a demonstration in front of the Kennedy School of Gummint where Khatami spoke. The protesters were evil Zionists together with some Iranian students and ex-pats. Plus the antisemitic, Jew-hating Michael Graham, who spoke briefly with some impromptu remarks. Nappy loved his sign: I'm only in it for the virgins.
I can see that Jews are making common cause with Iranians, but are Iranians making common cause with the Jews, including the Zionists? That I don't know.
I've heard that Iranians don't mind the Jews and they don't like the Arabs. There is more of a chance, perhaps, of good relations with Israel. But I don't assume that they're particularly pro-Zionist. Anti-Islamism does not necessarily mean pro-Zionism, though it helps.
No disillusions or wishful thinking here.
In the 2006 protest against Khatami, Z's & the Iranians planned separately and discovered each other at the demonstration. While there is the possibility of an opening between Israel and Iran because longstanding rivalry between Arabs and Persians and also between Shia (most Iranian Muslims) and Sunni (most Arabs), Iranians are they're still Muslim. Even if not Islamist, their sense of their need to dominate and the accursed, devilish nature of Jews come to them in their mothers' milk. Even if they don't like the Supreme Leader or Ahmewackjob and take a lot of what they say with a grain of salt, it's still the case that they believe a lot of the bad press about Israel, that the "Palestinians" were dispossessed out of Euro-guilt for the Holocaust, etc.
Were Israel to attack Iranian nuke facilities -- Remember the missile-carrying submarines that sailed through the Suez recently? -- Nappy believes that Iranians will rally behind the government; it's a simple matter of nationalism. Iranians are proud of their Persian culture and heritage. Iran's nuke program is nothing new, even if the mullahs kicked it up into high gear in recent years. It was started under the Shah.
Apropos Iranian-Jewish cooperation and solidarity, check out this video from The New York Board of Rabbis about their protest at the UN last week.
Most of it's more of a slide show (still images and text) with a soundtrack than video. Stick it out to the end for the "special message." The music following the shofar blasts is not credited; Nappy guesses it's the Miami Boys' Choir. Nicely done, if you're into that sort of thing. If not, you can always turn down the volume.
Nappy, I don't see the video. Is it still there at your link?
My bad. A brain-fart. Meant to linkify the words "this video."
Here it is: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KTtL-VKwL-s