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Titolo: Israele vuole cancellare la comunita' Ebraica Iraniana dalla mappa del medio oriente

http://weekly.ahram.org.eg/print/2007/856/op56.htm#1
Sacrificed to Zionism
Just as Jews in Egypt and Iraq in the 20th century were manipulated by
Israel, so now Iran's Jewish community is in peril, reflects Jonathan
Cook*
Iran is the new Nazi Germany and its president, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad,
the new Hitler. Or so Israeli officials have been declaring for months
as they and their American allies try to persuade doubters in
Washington that an attack on Tehran is essential. And if the latest
media reports are to be trusted, it looks like they may be winning the
battle for hearts and minds. US Vice-President Dick Cheney is said to
have diverted the White House back on track to launch a military
strike.
Earlier this year former premiere Binyamin Netanyahu, Israel's
opposition leader and the man who appears to be styling himself
scaremonger- in-chief, told us: "It's 1938 and Iran is Germany. And
Iran is racing to arm itself with atomic bombs." Of Ahmadinejad, he
said: "He is preparing another Holocaust for the Jewish state."
A few weeks ago, as Israel's military intelligence claimed -- as it
has been doing regularly since the early 1990s -- that Iran is only a
year or so away from the "point of no return" on developing a nuclear
warhead, Netanyahu was at it again. "Iran could be the first
undeterrable nuclear power," he warned, adding: "This is a Jewish
problem, like Hitler was a Jewish problem... The future of the Jewish
people depends on the future of Israel."
But Netanyahu has been far from alone in making extravagant claims
about looming genocide from Iran. Israel's new president, Shimon
Peres, has compared an Iranian nuclear bomb to a "flying concentration
camp". And Prime Minister Ehud Olmert told a German newspaper last
year: "[Ahmadinejad] speaks as Hitler did in his time of the
extermination of the entire Jewish nation."
There is an interesting problem with selling the "Iran as Nazi
Germany" line. If Ahmadinejad really is Hitler, ready to commit
genocide against Israel's Jews as soon as he can get his hands on a
nuclear weapon, why are some 25,000 Jews living peacefully in Iran and
more than reluctant to leave despite repeated enticements from Israel
and American Jews?
What is the basis for Israel's dire forecasts -- the ideological
scaffolding being erected, presumably, to justify an attack on Iran?
Helpfully, as George W Bush defended his Iraq policies last month, he
reminded us yet again of the menace Iran supposedly poses: it is
"threatening to wipe Israel off the map".
This myth has been endlessly recycled since a translation error was
made of a speech Ahmadinejad delivered nearly two years ago. Farsi
experts have verified that the Iranian president, far from threatening
to destroy Israel, was quoting from an earlier speech by the late
Ayatollah Khomeini in which he reassured supporters of the
Palestinians that "the Zionist regime in Jerusalem" would "vanish from
the page of time".
Ahmadinejad was not threatening to exterminate Jews or even Israel. He
was comparing Israel's occupation of the Palestinians with other
illegitimate systems of rule whose time had passed, including the
shahs who once ruled Iran, apartheid South Africa and the Soviet
empire. Nonetheless, this erroneous translation has survived and
prospered because Israel and her supporters have exploited it for
their own crude propaganda purposes.
In the meantime, the 25,000-strong Iranian Jewish community is the
largest in the Middle East outside Israel and traces its roots back
3,000 years. As one of several non-Muslim minorities in Iran, Jews
there suffer discrimination, but they are certainly no worse off than
the one million Palestinian citizens of Israel -- and far better off
than Palestinians under Israeli occupation in the West Bank and Gaza.
Iranian Jews have little influence on decision- making and are not
allowed to hold senior posts in the army or bureaucracy. But they
enjoy many freedoms. They have an elected representative in
parliament, they practice their religion openly in synagogues, their
charities are funded by the Jewish Diaspora, and they can travel
freely, including to Israel. In Tehran, there are six kosher butchers
and about 30 synagogues. Ahmadinejad's office recently made a donation
to a Jewish hospital in Tehran.
As Ciamak Moresadegh, an Iranian Jewish leader, observed: "If you
think Judaism and Zionism are one, it is like thinking Islam and the
Taliban are the same, and they are not." Iran's leaders denounce
Zionism, which they blame for fuelling discrimination against the
Palestinians, but they have also repeatedly avowed that they have no
problem with Jews, Judaism, or even the State of Israel. Ahmadinejad,
caricatured as a merchant of genocidal doom, has in fact called for
"regime change" -- and then only in the sense that he believes a
referendum should be held of all Israelis and inhabitants of the
occupied territories, including refugees from war, on the nature of
the government.
Despite the absence of any threat to Iran's Jews, the Israeli media
reported recently that the Israeli government has been trying to find
new ways to entice Iranian Jews to Israel. The Maariv newspaper
pointed out that previous schemes had found few takers. There was,
noted the report, "a lack of desire on the part of thousands of
Iranian Jews to leave". According to the New York-based Forward
newspaper, a campaign to convince Iranian Jews to emigrate to Israel
caused only 152 out of these 25,000 Jews to leave Iran between October
2005 and September 2006, and most of them were said to have emigrated
for economic reasons, not political ones.
To step up these efforts -- and presumably to avoid the embarrassing
incongruence of claiming Iran's genocidal intent while thousands of
Jews live happily in Tehran -- Israel is now backing a move by Jewish
donors to guarantee every Iranian Jewish family $60,000 to settle in
Israel, in addition to a host of existing financial incentives that
are offered to Jewish immigrants, including loans and cheap mortgages.
The announcement was met with scorn by the Society of Iranian Jews,
which issued a statement that their national identity was not for
sale. "The identity of Iranian Jews is not tradeable for any amount of
money. Iranian Jews are among the most ancient Iranians. Iran's Jews
love their Iranian identity and their culture, so threats and this
immature political enticement will not achieve their aim of wiping out
the identity of Iranian Jews."
However, this unwelcome financial gesture may not be as innocuous as
it seems. Israel introduced a similar scheme a few years ago, when
Argentina's economy plunged into deep recession, broadcasting an offer
of $20,000 to every Argentinean Jew who settled in Israel. Months
later the Israeli media reported a rise in anti- Semitic attacks in
Argentina, only adding to the pressure on Jews there to leave. Of
course, there was no mention of a possible causal connection between
the attacks and Israel's generous offer to Jews to abandon their
homeland as other Argentineans sank into poverty.
But if financial enticements fail to move Iranian Jews, there is every
reason to fear that Israel may resort to other, more dubious ways of
encouraging them to emigrate. That is certainly a path Israel has
chosen before with other communities of Arab Jews, whom it has
regarded either as a pool of potential spies and agents provocateurs
to be used when needed, or as "human dust", in the words of Israel's
first prime minister, David Ben Gurion, to be recruited to Israel's
"demographic battle" against the Palestinians.
In "Operation Susannah" of 1954, for example, Israel recklessly
recruited a group of Egyptian Jews to stage a series of explosions in
Egypt in a bid to discourage Britain from withdrawing from the Suez
Canal zone. When the plot came to light, it naturally cast suspicion
of disloyalty over Egypt's wider Jewish community. Following Israel's
invasion and occupation of Sinai two years later, the government of
President Gamal Abdel-Nasser expelled some 25,000 Egyptian Jews and,
after others were imprisoned on suspicion of spying, the rest soon
left.
Even more notoriously, Israel went to greater lengths to ensure the
exit of the Arab world's largest Jewish population, in Iraq. In 1950 a
series of bombs targeting Jews in Baghdad forced a rapid exodus of
some 130,000 to Israel, convinced that Arab extremists were behind the
attacks. Only later did it emerge that the bombs had been planted by
members of the Zionist underground, supported by the Israeli
government.
Now, Iran's Jews may find themselves treated in much the same manner
-- simply as human fodder. Stories are growing of Israel exploiting
the free movement between Iran and Israel enjoyed by Iranian Jews and
their Israeli relatives to carry out spying operations on Iran's
nuclear programme. Such reports have come from reliable sources such
as the American investigative journalist Seymour Hersh, citing US
government officials.
The fallout from such actions is not difficult to predict. Besieged by
the US and the international community, Tehran is cracking down on
dissent and minority groups, fearful that its own grip on power is
shaky and that the well-publicised subversion being carried out by US
and Israeli agents is likely only to be stepped up. So far most
officials in Tehran have been careful to avoid suggesting that Iran's
Jews have dual loyalties, as has the local Jewish community itself,
both of them aware of Israel's interests in provoking such a
confrontation. But as the strains increase, and Israel's need to prove
Tehran's genocidal intent grows ever stronger, that policy may end up
being forfeited, and with it the future of Iran's Jews.
More important than the welfare of Iranian Jewish families, it seems,
is the value of Iranian Jews as a propaganda tool in Israel's battle
to persuade the world that coexistence with the Muslim world is
impossible. For those who want to engineer a clash of civilisations,
the 3,000- year-old Jewish legacy in Iran is not something to be
treasured, but is merely an obstacle to war.
* The writer is a journalist based in Nazareth, Israel, and author of
Blood and Religion: The Unmasking of the Jewish and Democratic State
(Pluto Press).

 and American Jews?
CUT
Ma che razza di domanda tendenziosa e provocatoria fa?!
Pure questo è ovviamente un rossobruno antisemita, che maschera il suo
odio sotto queste domande apparentemente logiche e conseguenti!

 (Pluto Press).
ROTFL
Tb
-- 
Libertą per i comunisti siriani in carcere: Fateh Jamus, 'Isam Dimashqi,
Basel Hurani, 'Abd al-Halim Rumieh, Ratib Sha'bu, and Doha 'Ashur
al-'Askari 
http://snipurl.com/1oqtm

 Pure questo è ovviamente un rossobruno antisemita
E' molto probabile, sì. Hai pestato l'ennesima merda, persiconzolo.
Tb
-- 
Libertà per i comunisti siriani in carcere: Fateh Jamus, 'Isam Dimashqi,
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 (Pluto Press).
insomma, quel che si dice una fonte attendibile.

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Jonathan Cook non e' mai stato condannato per frode aggravata e
cospirazione a delinquere.   Il proprietario del Jerusalem Post si.
Chi e' la fonte attendibile?
(Aspetto, per riderne, il pistolotto di Toni sulle fallacie logiche
che riconfermera' la sua profonda ignoranza della stessa).
GT

andrea...@gmail.com
 wrote:
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Beh, dai, sempre meglio di angryarab.
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 Jonathan Cook non e' mai stato condannato per frode aggravata
Irrilevante.
Tb
-- 
Libertą per i comunisti siriani in carcere: Fateh Jamus, 'Isam Dimashqi,


 Chi e' la fonte attendibile?
non ne esistono, siamo tutti entità socialmente costruite.

 ma ha scritto un libro 
e questo è un reato adesso? <g>
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 e questo è un reato adesso? <g>
Dalle sue parti puo' esserlo.  Chiedi a questi tizi qui:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Victor_Ostrovsky
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michel_Warschawski
(Non e' ancora successo a Jonathan Cook.  Tuttavia, e' stato
minacciato di arresto, per "diffusione dei segreti di stato", quando
ha riportato le lamentele dei capi di villaggi Arabi in Galilea, che
dicevano che l'Esercito Israeliano sta mettendo attrezzature militari
nei loro villagi, e coinvolgendoli nella guerra con Hezbollah)
GT

Cook*
Un altro *COGLIONE* antisemita a 'la Torrieri.
-Stefano

 l'Esercito Israeliano
entità socialmente costituita, ricordiamolo

On 7 Ago, 18:36, 
andrea.na...@gmail.com
 wrote:
qualcuno dovrà spiegare perchè un'entità socialmente costruita che è
immigrata in Israele continua a rompere i coglioni su IPi....

immigrata in Israele
Un'entita' ... e' *IMMIGRATA IN ISRAELE*?
*ROTFL*
Se tu non esistessi dovrebbero inventarti :)
-Stefano