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UniverseSeven (OP) User ID: 119903 United States 08/08/2006 01:32 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Israel and Iran: The bonds that tie Persians and Jews Stanley A. Weiss International Herald Tribune July 10, 2006 Excerpt: LONDON As an American Jew visiting Iran, I apparently made an irresistible target. "Zionist Israel," an Iranian official instructed me, was the root of all problems in the Middle East; a Western "colonial imposition" on Muslim lands that must be reversed. "It's Iran's own fault," I replied. "If Cyrus the Great hadn't freed the Jews from Persian slavery 2,500 years ago and told them to return to Jerusalem and rebuild their Temple, there wouldn't be an Israel." The official chuckled and changed the subject. Today, it's hard to imagine two more bitter enemies than Iran and Israel. Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad calls for Israel to be wiped off the map. Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert calls a nuclear- armed Iran an existential threat to Israel. Yet animosity between Iran and Israel is an historical aberration. Before Iran's 1979 Islamic Revolution, ancient cultural bonds and common strategic interests between Persians and Jews made Iran and Israel close allies. Even today, enduring strategic interests suggest that a revived Persian-Jewish partnership, while by no means imminent, is inevitable. If he knew his history, Ahmadinejad would recall that Iranian diplomats in Europe saved thousands of Jews from the Holocaust and that Iran served as an escape route for Iraqi Jews fleeing to Israel after the 1948 war for Israeli independence. In fact, Iran was one of the first Muslim countries to establish diplomatic and trade relations with the state of Israel. Common Sunni Arab enemies made Persians and Jews close friends for the next three decades. Iran's Shah Mohammed Reza Pahlavi depended on Israel for a steady stream of arms and intelligence. Israel depended on Iran as part of its "periphery policy" of security alliances with non-Arabs on the Middle Eastern periphery along with Turkey, Ethiopia and Lebanese Christians. Persian Iran sat out all three Arab-Israeli wars and even during the Arab oil boycott of the 1970s, continued supplying Israel with oil. The 100,000 Jews in Iran helped sustain robust Iranian-Israeli trade. pg.1 FULL [link to www.iht.com] Let both grow together until the harvest: and in the time of harvest I will say to the reapers, Gather ye together first the tares, and bind them in bundles to burn them: but gather the wheat into my barn. |
UniverseSeven (OP) User ID: 119903 United States 08/08/2006 01:48 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | New Iraqi Prime Minister Has Jewish Origins and is Loyal to Iran Maliki: a Jew from Babylon Rules Iraq "According to most Muslim sources and indications from the Koran, the Jewish tribe Beni Quraydha, now Maliki's Graydhat tribe in Iraq, pledged several neutrality treaties with Prophet Muhammad. They betrayed each one of them by abandoning neutrality and joining the enemy troops in the middle of war when the enemies of the Muslims were attacking them, besieging them and seeking to exterminate them. The last betrayal almost led to the extermination of the Muslims because this Jewish tribe was situated above the Muslims. To make an example for all repeat traitors, all the adult fighters of this tribe were executed, including a woman who killed a Muslim man by dropping a millstone on him." --Cyte [link to cytations.blogspot.com] --------------------------------------- Who is Jawad Al-Maliki? (pdf) [link to www.nogw.com] Let both grow together until the harvest: and in the time of harvest I will say to the reapers, Gather ye together first the tares, and bind them in bundles to burn them: but gather the wheat into my barn. |
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UniverseSeven (OP) User ID: 119903 United States 08/08/2006 01:58 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | e). “Jawad Al-Maliki” (real name “Nuri Kamil Al-Ali”) is a member of the same (Dawa) party as outgoing Premier Ibrahim Jaafari Ashayqar. He comes from the village of Jalaajil, in the district of Tawayreej (Al-Hindiya), which is between the cities of Hilla (Babylon) and Karabala. He is reportedly from the tribe of Graydhat (originally Beni-Quraydha). Some of the members of this tribe include the famous songwriter Salih Al-Kuwaiti (who wrote the well-known folk song “Khadiri Chai Khadiri”) who later fled to Israel, and famous news announcer Rushdi Abdel-Sahib. [link to www.faair.org] Let both grow together until the harvest: and in the time of harvest I will say to the reapers, Gather ye together first the tares, and bind them in bundles to burn them: but gather the wheat into my barn. |
UniverseSeven (OP) User ID: 119903 United States 08/08/2006 02:18 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Jewish-Iranian Hostility is a Charade While the world is focused on Lebanon, Iran-backed Shiites have accelerated their slaughter of Sunni Arabs in Iraq. I do not see that Hezbollah "rockets" are hitting anything of substance in Israel. The whole rocket thing may be an Israeli propaganda lie that is made credible by Hezbollah's false claim of responsibility. Also, Hezbollah militants and locations are not being hit by Israel, although they are mostly known and visible. Israel's bombs are focused on Arab civilians, mainly poor Sunni "converts" to Shiism who rely for their survival on generous Iranian social services managed by Hezbollah. Arab Shiites are acceptable "collateral damage" to Iran, both in Iraq and Lebanon. Although these poor people look up to the Ayatollahs, their slaughter is facilitated by edicts to punish traitors (in Iraq) or by Hezbollah's false claims of responsibility for hundreds of fictitious rockets that are supposedly falling on Israeli civilians. In other words, Hezbollah's mother Iran and Israel are still de facto allies, if only Arabs and Americans would understand this fact. On CNN, Robert McFarlane told the world that Caspar Weinberger overrode President Ronald Reagan's order to punish Hezbollah for bombing the Marine barracks in Beirut and killing hundreds. Why would a Jewish secretary of defense do that? Weinberger said that it would damage relationships with allies! Iranian-Jewish hostility has always been a charade. Arabs, Muslims and Christians who admire Hezbollah are missing the point. [link to cytations.blogspot.com] Let both grow together until the harvest: and in the time of harvest I will say to the reapers, Gather ye together first the tares, and bind them in bundles to burn them: but gather the wheat into my barn. |
UniverseSeven (OP) User ID: 119903 United States 08/08/2006 03:11 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Your not paying attention --------------------------------------- Israel and Iran: Covert friends? 2 nations possibly cooperating in opposition to Iraq Posted: September 3, 2002 but other theories suggest themselves. Israel and Iran engaged in intense intelligence and military cooperation during the shah's rule. The fall of the shah and the rise of an Islamic regime shattered any formal ties between the two countries, but it did not obliterate their shared geopolitical interests. Under the shah, Iran and Iraq fought a war that ended in 1975. After the establishment of the Islamic Republic, that war resumed and continued until 1988, more intensely and brutally than before. Israel did not want to see Iraq defeat Iran – not because it held any affection for the regime in Tehran, but because a triumphant Iraq would have been disastrous for Israel. And Tehran, facing an Iraq whose attack had tacit U.S. support – and with a military equipped almost exclusively with American weapons – lacked access to American spare parts and newer weapons. Without that, Iran could have lost the war. Therefore, ideology aside, geopolitical interest kept the channels between Israel and Iran open. At one point, with the Iran-Contra affair, Washington deliberately used those channels. Phase 1 of the affair involved selling arms to Iran; Phase 2 involved using the money from the sales to fund the Contras. The United States used Israel to transship arms to Iran not only for plausible deniability (which was never really plausible to begin with), but because Israel had an open channel with Tehran. Israeli leaders knew the professional military in Iran and maintained liaisons with Iranian intelligence and some Iranian factions. That channel has never completely closed, although the level of activity has varied. Israel and Iran remain enemies of Iraq. Tehran was delighted when Israel destroyed Iraq's nuclear facilities in 1981, since officials knew perfectly well that Iran would have been the first target of Iraqi nukes. There were even rumors of some Iranian assistance to Israel at the time of the attack. The United States has found the channel between the two countries useful both for intelligence purposes and for making certain that the military balance between Iran and Iraq is maintained. The idea that Israel and Iran could have active, covert relationships that both would deny – and that the United States actually might encourage – is strange, but only if one takes absolutely seriously the ideological pronouncements of all sides. In a world where Stalin could be allied first with Hitler and then with Churchill, the idea of Israeli-Iranian relations is not as insane as it sounds. In fact, it is one of the critical features of the Middle East. Iran and Israel have a common enemy in Iraq. They are not enemies only of Saddam Hussein, but also of the various groups that he has created. The fact that Iran sponsors Hezbollah does not change the fact that Iraq also sponsors anti-Israeli groups. If Iran will help destroy those groups while still supporting Hezbollah, Israel is a net winner. And if Israel can help Iran defend itself, Iran is a net winner. FULL [link to www.worldnetdaily.com] Let both grow together until the harvest: and in the time of harvest I will say to the reapers, Gather ye together first the tares, and bind them in bundles to burn them: but gather the wheat into my barn. |