Iranians Are Friends of the Jews
26 Dec, 2006
Is there anyone left in the world that does not know the
president of the Islamic Republic of Iran, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad,
hates the Jews? His welcoming of representatives of an extremist
branch of Orthodox Judaism to his conference denying the Holocaust
reminded us of the Nazis' use of some Jewish community leaders to
facilitate the deportation of the Jews to the death camps.
This devout man of Allah, Ahmadinejad, known affectionately by
Iranians as “The Monkey” for his non-stop silly and embarrassing
antics should be given a fair hearing, never mind the fact that he
would not even think of doing the same for others. What makes The
Monkey more than a laughing stock is what he represents and the
power he wields at arousing millions of his co-Islamofascists
against the “undesirables” of the world.
For some reasons, Jews are on the top of The Monkey’s hit list as
they have been in the same position of “honor” with other past
fascists of the world. Perhaps precedence by itself constitutes
the basis for arriving at a verdict, as is sometimes the case in
the law.
And when it comes to the Jews’ guilty verdict, there is no
shortage of precedence. Jews have been around for a long time and
have been a convenient target of scapegoating. People being people
have a difficult time looking at themselves for their problems. It
is by far easier to find others to blame than to try to mend one’s
own ways. So the Jews became convenient scapegoats for bigots, the
fascists, and all manners of malevolent louts.
This is neither the place, nor is it necessary for the purpose of
this article to provide an exhaustive documentation of the
historical suffering of the Jewish people. The main purpose of
this article is to tell the world that Iranians are proud of their
historical friendship with the Jewish people. The bond of
friendship goes back to the landmark action of King Cyrus the
Great of Persia. In 537 B.C., having conquered Babylon, the
benevolent King Cyrus freed the Jews from captivity and empowered
them to return to the Promised Land and build their temple.
For his acts of kindness, Cyrus the Great is immortalized in the
Bible in several passages and called “the anointed of the Lord.”
The Jews throughout the recorded history looked to Cyrus’ people,
the Iranians, as their friends and protectors against oppressors
such as the Seleucids and the Romans. There existed, in the
ancient world, a universal admiration for the beliefs and
practices of the Persians as enshrined in Cyrus Charter of Human
Rights. Even the Greeks, the traditional adversaries of the
Persians, called Cyrus “The Lawgiver.”
The return of the Jews to the Promised Land did not mark the end
of their ordeal. Successive waves of ill-wishers, notably the
Romans and then the savage Muslims unleashed their unjustified
wrath on the Jews.
The Jewish people, in spite of suffering huge losses at the hands
of their enemies, remained resilient and, with one exception,
outlived their tormentors. The Pogroms in Russia, the
ghettoization in much of Europe, and even the genocidal Hitlerism
failed to wipe out the Jews.
One diehard enemy, Islam, has been hard at work for some 1400
years to complete the work of finishing off the Jews that Muhammad
himself had started.
Iranians are saddened and ashamed by the appearance of Ahmadinejad
on the international scene and his declared intent to wipe out the
Jewish homeland from the face of the earth. Ahmadinejad is not an
Iranian. Numerous photos show him proudly donning the Arab
headscarf around his neck—a Palestinian headscarf that presently
stands as a symbol of Arabo-Islamic genocidal hate campaign
against the Jews as well as non-believers of all stripes.
Ahmadinejad does not represent the Iranian people any more than
his turbaned-colleagues presently ruling Iran do. What needs to be
understood is that in fact Ahmadinejad and the Mullahs, above all
else, are true Muslims and despise anything “Iranian” and its
ancient “pre-Islamic” heritage.
You can tell a true Muslim by the ferocity of his hatred. Islam is
driven by hate. And the Islamic hate is so intense and blind that
it consumes even its own adherents. Just consider, for instance,
the rocketing of mosques full of Friday worshippers by one sect of
the religion of peace against another sect of the same religion.
Or, the raging gun battle between the Hamas thugs and the Fatah
murderers in the Palestinian territory.
Iranian Muslims are victims of the Islamic virus that has
destroyed in them their traditional respect for diversity. It is
the Iranian ancient fundamental belief in the validity and value
of diversity that has held the nation together over the millennia.
The diverse people who give Iran its enduring strength include
Persians, Azaris, Kurds, Baluchis, Torkemans, Arabs and more: one
and all have their allegiance to Iran as an idea and a nation.
Iranians are spiritual children of Cyrus the Great and adherents
of his Charter—the first Charter of Human Rights—that clearly
proclaims the equal rights and worth of the beliefs and practices
of all people.
Islam overtook Iran and brutally strived to replace the
traditional lofty Iranian belief in human rights with its barbaric
exclusionary dogma of the primitive Bedouin Arabs. Regrettably,
the forced subjugation of the Iranians succeeded to some degree in
transmitting the Islamic psychosocial virus to many Iranians. The
virus transforms the person into a bigot—one who sees only his way
and his belief as the right way and the only right mandate. Any
and all people who do not see things his way are wrong and must be
reformed by whatever means, including eradication, if the bigot
sees fit.
True Iranians have remained friends of the Jews by both belief as
well as deeds. During the shameful Hitlerian campaign of
exterminating the Jews, for instance, Iranian missions in Europe,
notably the one in France, issued Iranian passports to facilitate
the flight of French and other European Jews from the claws of
Nazis and their gas chambers—the very gas chambers that the true
Muslim, disgracing Iranians, Ahmadinejad, denies ever existed.
Iranians stand for the right of the Jews as well as the equal
rights under the law for any and all religious and secular people.
Iranians believe that Islamofascism is a present and imminent
danger and call on all free peoples of the world to do all they
can to frustrate its “Pogrom,” heeding Martin Niemoller’s warning:
"They came for the communists, and I did not speak up because I
wasn't a communist; They came for the socialists, and I did not
speak up because I was not a socialist; They came for the union
leaders, and I did not speak up because I wasn't a union leader;
They came for the Jews, and I didn't speak up because I wasn't a
Jew. Then they came for me, and there was no one left to speak up
for me."