Iran’s Anti-Israel Protest Reveals Regime Fearful of Domestic Opposition
Iran managed to hold its annual anti-Israel Quds Day rallies this year in relative peace, as the opposition stayed away from the streets. Thousands of hard-line supporters of the Iranian government flocked to the streets of the capital Tehran and elsewhere in the country to denounce Israel, and to demand that Jews leave the Middle East. The numbers were a far cry from the rallies in past years that attracted millions, a good indicator of the government’s waning popularity.
Even though opposition activists had quietly indicated that they would hold rallies against the government, no one showed up after the government filled the streets with thousands of security forces. Their decision to not show up was also affected by the government’s brazen attacks on the house of opposition leader Mehdi Karroubi for the past two days.
The main government rallies in Tehran were marked by supporters marching through the streets in different parts of the city, carrying anti-Israel and pro-Palestinian placards and chanting anti-Israel slogans. By far the largest crowd gathered in Tehran University, which was under tight security, where President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad gave another of his anti-Israel speeches. This time, he managed both to denounce Israel and to call the current round of peace talks between the Israelis and Palestinians in Washington “a failure from the start.” He also accused the West of blatant pro-Zionist policies.
Quds Day is held on the last Friday of the Islamic holy month of Ramadan in Iran. Initiated by Iran’s revolutionary leader Imam Khomeini, the protest was meant to show solidarity with Palestinians. It has now largely turned into a platform for Iran’s theofascist regime to promote its own version of anti-Semitism, anti-Americanism, and anti-everything the mullahs in power seek to denounce — including their domestic opposition.
The opposition spent the day tending to the attack on their leader, and according to some activists, enjoyed the degree to which the government has become frightened of their activities. One activist opined:
The government had to put thousands of security forces on Tehran’s streets under scorching heat for most of the day. Logistically speaking, this is a great blow, since not only did they spend a lot of money to contain a ghost, but also fatigued their thugs.
Another lamented that if the government hadn’t put too many security forces on the ground, they might have held a rally.
What the day proved, however, was that the government is indeed troubled by the opposition, and is ready to go to any lengths to control their activities. This is a hard blow to a regime that has recently boasted that it has crushed the opposition, and that the Green Movement — a coalition of anti-government opposition groups — is not a threat. The streets of Tehran today were a witness to how much of a threat they expected.
tell you what i think josh about you joining a conservative news org..u just lost a follower ,this group you joined are nothing more than radical and conservative fundamentalists who divide up social groups for their own entertainment – i want no part of conservatives and totally despise them
Maliheh,
With literally millions of news and opinion sites and blogs to choose from, you might want to find a Website that better matches your worldview, rather than one that you “despise.” You’ll find that it’s much easier on your blood pressure that way.
Ed
Great article – especially like the quote about “spending a lot of money to contain a ghost”
Why should the people have gone to the streets today? This is a regime day, let them have it, and by all accounts they couldn’t even manage that very well.
Agreed re; they did the right thing by staying home. I couldn’t agree more. By not going out, but still dragging the security forces on the streets, they showed just how fragile the government in Iran is.
josh,conservatives and their news organizations are what were fighting against in iran & abroad ..i do not agree with this move at all and your conservative friends are in the minority..no need to side with them
Maliheh, I’m not a liberal. I’m a libertarian. That’s A. B, I also write for the Huffington Post and I write for Enduring America as well. HP is ultra-liberal and EA is brazenly anti-US interventionism. Have you, however, seen me write about anything but human rights? The issue here is not writing for websites because you agree with everything they say. The issue here is getting everyone involved in a debate in which they rightfully belong.
Conservative Americans and liberal Americans are the two sides of the same coin which make up the fabric of this country. You cannot despise a group simply because they have a political belief that you disagree with. If you stopped being friends with people because you had issues with their beliefs, I’m sure you’d be left with you alone.
As for me, I have socialist friends, I have capitalist friends, hell, I might even have some communist friends who aren’t telling me what they belief in. I have evangelical, atheist, Muslim, Jewish, Hindu, Buddhist all kinds of friends. I work with people who are anti-abortion, I work with people who’re pro gay-marriage and I work with people who are strongly against immigration.
What’s dividing us is not our ability to alienate, but our inability to compromise. As for you being a follower… I have never considered anyone on Twitter or Facebook that I am friends with or who ‘follow’ me as followers or fans. I look at them as friends. So understand your value and try to see the bigger picture.
If we want US foreign policy geared towards helping the Green Movement in Iran or human rights anywhere, we need help from everyone – liberals, conservatives, Christians, Muslims, Jews, gays, straights.. This is the way it’s going to work. I’m not going to pinpoint media organizations that adhere to my set of beliefs. If you don’t like this, then you’re welcome to disagree, but if you disagree with who I am simply because I write for an organization that adheres to political beliefs you oppose, then I’m very dismayed.
“debate” masquerades as a temporary deterrent, “compromise” postpones the vivid shape of things to come
Very well David P. So what’s your point?
compromise & debate are facades, pointless exercises
David,
Compromise means, “It’s okay. I’ll bite this bullet. I know I and you can’t stop hating each other. But hate is a bad thing. Both our children deserve to live in a world free of ate. Let’s get over our egos and work together for the sake of our kids.
Josh you cannot bite a bullet that’s aimed to explode in your mouth, it must be extirpated with deeds, not words.
Wayne, Gesta, non verba
David P.,
What would you advocate in its stead?
Preoccupation with audacious tasks such as debate and compromise undermines resolve. It’s a feeble attempt at shelving the inevitable in exchange for a false peace of mind.
Hi Josh,
I’m not sure that compromise is the answer. However, I think we would all benefit from a bit of mutual respect. I don’t think I’m about to change my beliefs, but I’m certainly willing to listen to a liberal point of view, or refrain from automatically judging a liberal to be evil or corrupt, rather than simply mistaken, because of their beliefs.
…Ian
Well said Ian.
David P.,
What is the inevitable… in your opinion?
Compromise is the answer most of the time. However, there of course are times when you can’t compromise. It’s sort of like being in a fight. You try avoid it until the person makes it clear he is in no mood to let it go without one. Then, if you don’t do anything, it’s stupid.
I’m not Gandhi. Neither am I Jesus. The issue is violence costly. Remember, if you break someone’s jaw, your hands is going to hurt too. So if you are going to use that fist, make sure it’s saving your jaw. Not put the blame squarely on you for initiating a fight. Self-defense is very different from aggression.
I enjoy your writing Josh. I hope to read more from you.
If you stopped being friends with people because you had issues with their beliefs, I’m sure you’d be ……………… A MUSLIM
Maliheh,
So what are you fighting for? What kind of conservative’s are you against? Do you consider Fundamentalist Muslims to be conservative?… or Right Wing Republicans? I think you would agree there is quite a difference.
Good article . . . thanks! One question I’d like to know the answer to is . . . just how finite is their financial resources when it comes to paying off the Basij?
As finite as any other country’s.
Josh, it is truly disappointed to see you publishing on Pajamas considering its connection to Michael Leeden.
I am also very disappointed by your opening paragraph were you state: “Thousands of hard-line supporters of the Iranian government flocked to the streets of the capital Tehran and elsewhere in the country to denounce Israel, and to demand that Jews leave the Middle East.” You know as well as I do that these rallies never call for Jews to leave the middle east. They are against Israel and Zionists not against Jews.
Oh Really Afshin? And what happens to the Jews who stay behind when you drive their government into the sea? Do they become Dihmmi’s like the other infidels?
time for Jews to Dhimmi up again, right Afshin?
I expect the Jews will be treated about as well as Iran’s Sufis and Baha’is.
I imagine the Jews will be treated about as well as Iran’s Sufis and Baha’is.
Afshin, and I’m truly disappointed you don’t see what the article is about: HUMAN RIGHTS.
As for this,
“You know as well as I do that these rallies never call for Jews to leave the middle east. They are against Israel and Zionists not against Jews.”
I never said the rally was against Jews in that sentence. Secondly, who do you think lives in Israel?
hi Josh! I can see by your last name that you are Iranian. and also someone who is know amomg Iranians who are upset by you posting a blog here. I too am from Iran. while the two Iranians disagree for a different reason, I must tell you that this site like Huff post are made up of only intolorant people. they are only intrested to hearing what the want to hear. although most people who write for this blog are consevative and very good and descent Americans, there are a few that have a clear bias and are racists. one of them is Phyliss Chesller whose obsession with women being deprived of every rights in moslem countries are well know here. in fact 90% of she posts are about this subject. as though all otheer women in the worls are nbeing treted like gold. while both she and I work in NYC do you think she has taken a trip to Crown hights to see and right about the plight of Jewish women being treated like pieces of s… by orthodox Jewish men? or how about plight of women by the mormon church? here too the minute you disagree with the policies of the murderous Israeli government, they call you anti Jew, anti semite and anti Israel while they call any Jews who critisize the Israeli government as self hating Jew! or they call you a troll. this sit instead of focusing on radical Islam, is fixated by focusing on muslims. however that being siad, i do like to read posts here about Iran specially by Michael Ledeen. I find him very informed and totally unbiased.
AZADI!
Miriam,
A couple of things. First, yes, my name is Persian, but I’m not from Iran. Phyllis can defend here. Now, coming back to me. I write about human rights and disasters that affect poor people. I am very apolitical in my stances when I write. If you have objections what I am writing about, please let me know and I will answer in detail. Otherwise, I’m not sure I can really answer a question that I’m not involved in.
Hey, you didn’t get called an anti-Semite!
Ms Rove,
It is good to see you on this site, in spite of your reservations about it. I agree that women are mistreated in many parts of the world… including the USA. Mormon women have it much better than they once did… with the exception of the fundamentalist Mormons. Hispanic women are not treated very well, but I don’t think we can blame Christianity on that… their oppression is truly cultural. Same with the Latin countries in Europe, although women have made great strides in those cultures. I’ve also heard bad things about orthodox Jewish men and how they treat their women. Hindu Siiks have a very poor track record in some parts of India. However, when I think of the plight of women in the Muslim dominated countries, it is difficult to find a moral equivalent to compare. Nor does it seem plausible that this plight can be dismissed as purely cultural and devoid of any religious influence. The Koran, the example of Muhammed, and the Shariah Haditha are replete with harsh disdain for women. Would you care to engage further in this discussion with me? Although Phyllis Chesller is fairly focused in her condemnation against Islamization, I fail to see where anything she has written can be called racist.
Europeans and New Yorkers.
Maliheh, can you tone the language in your comments? I’m sure we can all get our points across without calling each other names.
Josh, don’t know you but looks like you illustrate the problem of any Westerners supporting the Iranian resistance. Immediately those of us who might be sympathetic to the ‘revolution’ find its ranks infested with MeK types and others who ‘like Jews’ but deny Israel’s right to exist – a state which has more right and need to exist than perhaps any in the world. I personally have seen enough of this, and have enough personal experience with ‘anti-Zionist’ Iranians in the US who, like ‘anti-Zionist’ Americans (of which the percentage is smaller), turn out to be rank anti-Semites and nothing else.
Interesting too that these folks are allergic to Michael Ledeen, when it certainly seems he is rather romantic about Iran in general and pro-Green.
My experience and reading suggests that nearly all Muslims, ‘religious’ or ‘secular’, are Jew-haters. It’s deep, deep in the blood and culture.
Couple of points here:
A) The sentiment of hardliners are not shared by many moderates. As a matter of fact, the Green Movement’s top slogan during last year’s opposition protests on Quds Day was, “Na Ghazeh, Na Lobnan, Janam Fadaye Iran” (No Gaza, No Lebanon – I’ll Sacrifice My Life ONLY for Iran).
B) I think making a general statement like that really doesn’t help a lot of Muslims who are otherwise not just okay with the state of Israel remaining where it is, but are also quite anti-anti-semites.
C) Finally, I do agree that most anti-semitism in Muslims is rooted in culture – not blood, though. That’d be taking evolution to a whole new level. One of the main reasons I write about the Green Movement and the Middle East in general is because once one gets to enjoy human rights, one becomes much more open to giving it to other people. Anti-semitism can only disappear from the Middle East and the Isalmic and the non-Islamic world through education and furthering of human rights.
Josh, I should not have written ‘in the blood’ – I did not mean it literally. I meant it non-literally, as ‘passed on through the culture.’
I hope Iran develops a decent gov’t; that it has stayed mired with a truly murderous regime for thirty years is no doubt frustrating to many good Iranians.
larry: please keep you vile hatred to yuorself
M
Miriam, I’m just reporting the sentiments expressed freely by Iranian-Americans that I overhead or were directed at me: ‘yahudi.’ Stop lecturing us about the ‘murderous Israeli gov’t’ and then try again. You regularly revile the existence of Israel itself….
sorry. bbut I am not buing this. un;less you live in the city of Qum in Iran, or in egypt, Jordan, yemen, I am not buying this period. you may have heard it once from a dooche but do not generalize and brush everones withe same thing. my being against the policies of the Israeli government does not make me anti Jews. the same thing as Michael Ledeen who despises the Iranian government, and does not hate Iranian. so I am sorry not buying it. and i also sorry that they called you this name.
Miriam, did you know that Michael Ledeen is Jewish? And how about not attacking Larry and telling him how you are an Iranian who is NOT anti-semitic? How about fostering understanding when you get a chance to?
“larry: please keep you vile hatred to yuorself”
Sure “miriam”, as soon as you keep *your* vile hatred to yourself. You claim the regime is only against Israel, not Jews, but they sponsored a Holocaust denial conference and invited David Duke. And they are the main sponsors of genocidal antisemitic savages like Hezbollah and Hamas. It’s possible to be anti-Israel without being antisemitic. It just doesn’t happen very often, and you are one of the prime examples, “miriam”.
Josh,
Nice to meet you. I’m looking forwadr to reading more of your work.
Not a problem. Looking forward to writing more here.
@afshin yes i am a liberal “and proud of it” so are majority of iranians wanting freedom ,it don’t surprise josh siding with these feeble minded conservatives since he is a libertarian..they are basically the same thing,just one less religious than the other…and josh..you are wrong..conservatives in iran and in usa have simularities one wants to rule iran in accordance to quran the other in accordance to the holy bible..i am a secularist “seperation religion from state” conservatives in the west believe in ruling america in accordance to bible..this is against my policies
Which is why you won’t get your freedom. So enjoy your dictatorship forever. The only realistic chance Iran has for freedom is if American conservatives chose to use American military force to invade Iran and impose democracy on the country. And this is not going to happen. Therefore dear Maliheh you are going to live in a Islamic dictatorship ruled by mullahs for the next 1000 years. Congratulations.
Josh is a nice well meaning guy. But like Ledeen he’s not realistic. Like ledeen he takes any small event and use it as evidence of “the crumbling regime”. But what they both ignore is how easy it is to rule an Islamic country. They don’t need a very powerful regime to stay in power. All they need to do is claim the Islamic Banner. And they can stay in power forever. Which is exactly what they are going to do.
JL, you make an interesting and correct observation, however, your reasoning in the end is I should say is flawed.
Yes, claiming Islam and flying its banner does get you followers. And yes, you are able to rule in relative peace for a few years, but every regime must satisfy its people in order to govern. That is something the Islamic regime in Iran has not done.
if millions can come out to protest against it, then don’t you think they have lost the ability to govern using the Islamic banner? The problem is, instead of helping the dissenting voices inside Islamic countries, some of us think not only are those country a lost cause, but the only way to ‘liberate’ them is through force. Where did force get us in Iraq? The country is ever more conservative!
Democracy is not system, it’s a culture. Me and you here are engaging in democracy. Democracy as a culture allows you to peaceably sit down and discuss your differences, then, leave the table and live and let live. Democracy means not being able to see your candidate win a free and fair election and waiting patiently for 4 years until there is another election for you to vote in. Democracy means that even though you are the majority, you are not going to deprive minorities of their rights.
All these things cannot be enforced. These things can only be gradually realized through education. And trust me, it’s far more cost effective.
Josh,
Good points about democracy. However, I disagree that it is a culture and not a system. It is a system. And it a more fragile system than even most Americans (or Europeans) suspect. It can be voted out, and it is on the verge of being voted out, in America and Europe. Once we vote to give up our freedoms to a giant Central Govt., those freedoms can only be gotten back if the giant Central Govt. decides to allow it.
Wayne,
I misspoke regarding Democracy not being a culture. What I meant to say was that democracy is both a system and a culture. However, the latter is equally as important as the former if not more. Democracy can never work if the people who are engaging it do not believe in the cultural aspects of it.
Why are we fighting here about where I or you or this website stands in the political spectrum? Why are you here? Why am I writing for this website? Why does this website publish it? The answer doesn’t lie in the political spectrum chart, it lies in the UN’s Declaration for Human Rights. The Iranian people need their basic human rights to be respected and given a government that is by the people and for the people. Then, they can choose if they want to be liberal or conservative. It’s not my or your decision to make sitting in our comfortable couches and sipping our AriZona ice tea.
Josh,
Welcome to the toxic left/right fracture in the U.S.
The media/culture/education system has been so poisoned by hateful ’60s leftism that it doesn’t matter a jot what facts are presented: to a liberal, all conservatives are evil. period. Just by associating with a conservative site, you are now being tarred as hateful and racist.
…Ian.
I’ll give you one thing: my conservative friends NEVER hated on me because I wrote for overwhelmingly liberal sites. However, I must say what I see here is misguided individuals who cannot get beyond themselves to see the issue that happens to be the most basic and most important one in our. So important that the Founding Fathers of America tried to base the constitution upon: Human Rights.
At the same time, you will find me ready to fight to the bitter end against anyone attempting to divert attention from the real issue.
Maliheh,
I find that most of the more devoutly religious people (Christians) in the US align themselves with the Right Wing (Republicans). Libertarians and Liberals (Democrats) tend not to be all that religious although they do align themselves with non Christians to a much greater degree. Liberals tend to be anti American. Would you agree?
Wayne,
I disagree that libertarians are liberal. Libertarians are mostly split in America between the GOP and the Dems.
I agree with you about liberals and libertarians. I tend to think libertarians have more in common with Repubs…. at least domestically. However, they are less interventionist, more isolationist, than the Dems.
MALI said)conservatives in the west believe in ruling america in accordance to bible..this is against my policies
PROVE IT – show the party or person who fights for religion dominated govt-
WHAT EVIDENCE SUPPORTS this?? uSA cONSERVATIVES LIKE THE CONSTITutioN JUST fine as is! THaT IS THE POINT of the tea party- no one!!!! not even the most fundy Christians has tried to make a theocracy of USA and not one group or party has such as it’s goals. PROVE YOUR LIES
Abortion? that is not just a topic people divide by religion- many anti abortion are secular or athiest-and our laws provide avenuse for people to support or overturn the laws they don’t like
Your ignorance on this topic proves you know little of and most likely never been in the USA.
While I would be happy to support automonmy for Kurds and Greens in IRAn-would be happy for anyone to see freedom FROM the totalitarianism that is ISLAM — I like others here are realistic about thier jewhater mentality- ZIONISM is a PRO JEWISH movement and you jewhaters can try and play your word game but we SEE YOU for what you are- and you fool NO ONE
since you like conservatives josh..why dont you make a blog over there on fox news or that other feeble mind of glenn beck…BTW glenn beck made a mockery of mlk last week in dc
First of all, I don’t write about US domestic policy. Secondly, I have never said I liked conservatives – OR liberals. That is not the issue here. The issue here is informing the public about goes inside Iran in Iranians’ fight for human rights and democracy. That is what I have done here. Now, as you know, any audience is formed by people of differing political opinions. They all deserve to be addressed on their terms. If you are going to write for liberal blogs where liberals read about the issue, you need to extend the same courtesy to conservatives.
Did you know that I’ve been told perhaps more than a dozen times by people who read what I write that even though they are conservative, they regularly read my work in the Huffington Post because they CARE about human rights in Iran? Did you know how many people on Twitter, Facebook and YouTube are conservative who nonetheless support Iran there?
How about those people who have stood by Iran for years? Let’s not do the Iranian regime’s job for it and divide each other up instead of coming together to fight the great evil.
MALI-gnant continues to spew – the tumor is terminal- diagnosis – braindead
Dr. King said, “When people criticize Zionists they mean Jews, you are
talking anti-Semitism.”
YEAH read and weep MALI-GNANT the ZIONISTS stole MLK too LOL
Sad that few people know about this…
my point is this josh..if i want to see a conservative “point of view” i would go on fox news or michelle malkins,glenn beck ,sean hannity websites ..i absolutely despise conservatives ..iran,middle east ,usa…it is all the same political ideology
But my point is neither conservative nor liberal. My point is human rights for Iran.
@josh iranians in iran are liberal and on the left “so is mehdi sararkhiz”.just like me josh…conservatism is what were trying to get rid of there ..it is saddening you do not see it that way…but being a libertarian like yourself josh it dont surprise me..
Conservative can mean different things in different countries.
Conservative in Iran means supporting a dictatorship. It means stealing peoples rightful rights. It means forcing women to cover themselves in thick chadars, giving them half the property rights of a man and taking our their ability to freely express themself.
Conservative in Iran means you have no regard for the life and liberty of your fellow citizen. It means you are perfectly okay with Evin, Kahrizak and the likes of them.
Conservative in Iran means you are against freedom of speech. It means all you ever care for is what the regime feeds you.
It does not mean you support the Republican Party.
Maliheh,
It seems that the liberals here in the US are almost always lining up with oppressive Mullahs and Imams who would oppose the Great Satan USA. They’re wigged out by anything Christian. They loath the Jews. But they are unconcerned over the rapid spread of Islam. Are you one of those kind of liberals?
Michael Leeden is a ultra conservative BTW and is a part of pajamas media
Yes? And he supports Iranians getting their human rights. What’s better than that?
Damn, there’s sure a lot of trolls today. It’s sad that they came here with they guards up against the “ultras” and “radicals” that seemingly visit PJM. It’d be nice if they tried to explain constructively some of their views. Alas, that may be asking much. Not that we “conservatives” deserve better, right? *sigh*
Good article and welcome, Josh. May there be freedom in Iran soon.
Oriol, thank you.
And trust me, I get the same kind of heat when I write for liberal publications. People are just super passionate about this and sometimes, there is too much heat.
Oriol,
Can you please educate me as to what a troll is? Or trolling? I’m somewhat new to the blogosphere and I want to be sure I’m not a troll or trolling.
Wayne,
Troll is someone who’s only purpose is to purposefully distract the participants from the original conversation and cause mischief.
Thank you Josh. I best stay on topic.
Also, malileh and the rest, please, PLEASE try to write a bit more clearly. It’s a pain just trying to understand what you’re trying to say. I hope it’s not asking too much.
It would be helpful if there were some definition of terms. To me a conservative is someone who has the tragic view of man – we cannot escape our nature, part of which is to strive to overcome our fate. To be liberal is to have the therapeutic view of man – we can perfect ourselves and become divine. Here’s a question for Josh – where would you put Israel? Mars?
Israel is just fine where it is. However, If I had some divine powers, I’d just make it so that everyone got along just fine. Let’s focus our energies to fighting those Green aliens who are about to come get us. They are inferior and must be destroyed!!!
Mr. Libertarian. Barring an intervention by your divine powers, should the Israeli’s wait to be nuked before defending themselves, or should they facilitate a means to prevent they’re own destruction ahead of time?
Mr David Who-doesn’t-like-giving-his-last-name,
I think all avenues of diplomacy should be explored before another war is started in the Middle East. However, if Iran does get close to getting nukes – and we actually have very solid proof of this – every country who feels threatened by Iran has the right to take actions it deems necessary to protect itself and its citizen.
Considering the fact that Iran’s theofascist regime continues to supply arms to Hamas, Hezbollah and the Taliban, it’s foolish to expect them to keep their nukes to themselves. Look at what Pakistan did with its nuclear technology.
I love it that you came back with the best cultural reference possible. Do you suppose that Israel has Slim Whitman in its arsenal?
Slim Whitman? Bah, I could tolerate that. Feed your enemies some of this:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YuhB72bJ-Us
What we have here is a failure to communicate.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-MhgnMX73Pw&feature=related
Porkov,
Your definitions of Liberal and Conservative could be from Mars. Are you serious?
As a heart attack. Of course both terms suffer from everyone using them to mean whatever they want them to mean, like Humpty Dumpty in Alice. But I don’t buy that one is good and the other is evil, or vice versa. Almost everyone I know has a mix of views, some liberal and some conservative, whether they have examined themselves enough to figure that out or not. So my take is that Liberals believe that utopia is attainable (or at least perfection in some areas is) and Conservatives believe that harmatia is intrinsic to the human condition.
What do YOU think?
I mean hamartia.
Porkov,
I think the human condition is far from perfect. However, I don’t think that makes me a conservative or a liberal. Thank you for explaining your premise though. I suppose you could say that liberals favor change and therefor improvement; whereas conservatives favor the status quo and are therefor satisfied. On the other hand, liberals would throw the baby out with the bathwater while conservatives would maintain what’s working until convinced that something better is possible. I don’t think that is what bloggers like Miriam or Maliheh are thinking when they refer to conservatives. But perhaps they will correct me.
Josh has written a good article. I just wish those who would criticize him would take him to task on specifics of what he wrote about instead of dismissing him for writing on a conservative site. Those of us who have never lived in the Middle East would appreciate it. The liberals who weigh in here make this site interesting if they could swallow their anger long enough to make a little sense.
Wayne,
*sigh*
“I just wish those who would criticize him would take him to task on specifics of what he wrote about instead of dismissing him for writing on a conservative site.”
^ Thank you. I could not ask for a better conservation. I honestly don’t write for people to read and then forget about it. I like to write so that I could have a conversation with people. That’s why I try to reply to all the comments.
Wayne,
The vitriol spilled by some of the posters here regarding conservatives is hardly liberal. John Locke is rightly called the father of Liberalism. His philosophy was incubated in the Age of Reason and the Age of Enlightenment. The Founding Fathers (and documents) of the United States knew his work, found it convincing, and embedded its ideas in the Constitution of the United States.
When I encounter such rabid language one of my first thoughts is that I have encountered a “true believer” in the Eric Hoffer sense of the word. People in this category are so invested in an ideology or religion that any reasonable challenge is a threat to the center of their being. It is certainly a conundrum that individuals who consider themselves liberal have such a negative reaction to the challenge of reasoned debate.
One final point – on a visceral level, which characters in this clip do you think represents today’s social definitions of liberal and conservative? -
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wM1DgihKHVI
conservatives like to create the fascist communist socialist liberal boogeyman to promote their own radical paranoid conservative political agenda.
and @oriol Keep on going kid,you are very entertaining for people like myself who know better. It is just scary that many of your feeble minded conservative friends seem to follow your advice and don’t listen to people like myself that actually know something about fighting for human rights and iranians social issues.
“your feeble minded conservative friends seem to follow your advice and don’t listen to people like myself that actually know something about fighting for human rights and iranians social issues.”
What exactly do you “know” about “fighting for human rights”? Based on your posts here you don’t know much of anything except how to troll.
“They are against Israel and Zionists not against Jews.”
Right, Afshin, that’s why the regime staged a conference promoting Holocaust denial and invited David Duke, and aided Hezbollah’s murderous attack on a Jewish community center in *Argentina*. You’re just another antisemitic propagandist, pal.
You can’t ask for moderate Islam in Iran. The only solution to Iran’s problem is getting rid of Ahmadinejad and his crazy mullahs and form a secular government. Anything less than this is doomed to failure. There are too many things in Islam that contradict democratic and human rights.
Oh, most people already know that the majority of Iranians are good people and would rather not be ruled by fear and religious creeds suppressing individual freedom.
Good sense is neither left or right – it is having the freedom of expression and civil rights. Who gives a damn if one is a conservative, liberal or whatever. Freedom does not exist in either corner. It is a measure of ones ability to express their views and opinions without being jailed.
Agreed, David.
Ba Dorood Josh
Again you are using the word “opposition” to apply to the Islamic Theocracy’s own people. The real opposition is Iran first.
Josh,
You wrote,
“B) I think making a general statement like that really doesn’t help a lot of Muslims who are otherwise not just okay with the state of Israel remaining where it is, but are also quite anti-anti-semites.”
Josh, if it is, in fact, true that many Muslims are, as you said, “okay with the state of Israel remaining where it is” (not opposed to the existence of the country of the Jewish people, Israel), and are against anti-Jewish bigotry in general, then that would make me feel better and would give me hope. I hope that that is true.
I am Jewish – my ethnic background is Jewish. I am American.
I am very distressed about the current situation in the world and I think that most Israeli Jewish people are also very distressed about the current situation in the world, and I think that many diaspora Jewish people (non-Israeli Jewish people) – diaspora Jewish people (non-Israeli Jewish people) who are not deluded and who are not deranged – are also very distressed about the current situation in the world.
Please try to understand how those of us who are Jewish feel. Please be kind and patient.
I think that what Larry wrote, he wrote in distress and vexation and not in malice.
I think that I know that what Larry wrote, he wrote in distress and vexation and not in malice.
I appreciate your support for the Jewish people and for the country of the Jewish people. I means a lot to me.
The political views that I hold can, I think, be accurately described as a balance between Classical Liberalism and Social Liberalism. I used to, but I no longer do, consider myself to be politically “Liberal”. The political Left has become immoral – as, I have come to learn that, the political Left did so in the 1930′s. The political Left, in general, as a whole, is now a political ideology and political movement consisting of the following things.
O Ignorance (ignorance of facts of historical worldly events and ignorance of facts of current worldly events; ignorance of one’s own mind; inability to discern and understand things as they really are)
O Low base emotions (self-infatuation (strong holding of very egocentric wrong self-view (thinking “I am superior.”)), malice, fear (fear of the very egocentric wrong self-view being shattered))
O Lack of being taught how to reason
resulting in, and involving
O Imperviousness to rational presentation of facts
O Susceptibility to being manipulated by, and prone to employing, verbal and visual lies – verbal lies of omission, visual lies of omission, blatant verbal lies, and blatant visual lies
O Sanctimonious vilification of people whose views oneself views as being wrong
O Fear of being socially outcast
O Attraction to fashionable (popular) views; aversion to unfashionable (unpopular) views
O Worship of charismatic leaders
O malicious, sanctimonious, totalitarian censorship of views which oneself views as being wrong
and resulting in bigotry consisting of the following (which I apologize for describing in an unclear and inelegant way; I do not have the ability, at this time, to express the following in a way that would be more clear which would not be a way that would involve an expression of the following description that would be much longer than the way that I have expressed it as the following)
O sanctimonious intransigent holding of indoctrinated [[Saudi-funded]-[Middle-Eastern-Studies-Department]]-and-[Saudi-Funded-[Political-Science-Department]-[Western-academia]-produced, [legacy-of-[Soviet-1960's-"intellectual-exchange-program"-anti-Israel-propaganda]-produced]-[Western-academia]-produced, resultant [Western-media]-produced, [partially-ignorant-deluded-Stockholm-Syndrome-affected-Jewish-people]-produced, [immoral-deranged-Stockholm-Syndrome-affected-Jewish-people]-produced, bigoted antipathetically racist obscene perverse wrong views about, and the feeling of vicious genocidal antipathy toward, the country of the Jewish people – and, involved with that, anciently, and continuingly, culturally engrained Western (culturally Christian-European Christian and post-Christian) anti-Jewish bigotry
O sanctimonious holding of indoctrinated sanctimoniously sympathetically racist condescending wrong views about, and toward, ethnically non-Jewish, and ethnically non-European, people
O sanctimonious holding of obscene perverse sympathetic wrong views about, and sanctimonious feeling of sympathy for, and excusing of, and collusion with, the adherents of the modern Islamic-Supremacist political movement (which is a political movement that began in the 1920′s, and which is a political movement of which the core, strategically central, part is the “Palestinian” movement – which was founded by Amin al-Husseini)
Amin al-Husseini – the founder of the “Palestinian” movement
O Starting in 1920, Amin al Husseini incited murderous riots against Jewish people in the part of the British Mandate of Palestine which British officials did not, subsequently, make into Transjordan (in 1919, at the Paris Peace Conference of 1919, Emir Faisal ibn Husseini and Haim Weizman signed the Faisal-Weizman Agreement of 1919 to establish one Arab state in, and one Jewish state in, the area of land that was, subsequently, in 1920, named the British Mandate of Palestine by British officials, and which was an area of land that included all of what is now Jordan, and included all of what is now Israel, and included all of what is now called “The West Bank”, and included all of what is now called “The Gaza Strip”; in 1920, Jack Philby was appointed as one of the most influential officials in charge of the management of the British Mandate of Palestine; Jack Philby (St. John Philby), also known by his Arabic name, Sheik Abdullah, was a British intelligence officer, a self-professed Socialist, a fluent speaker of Arabic, was well-known to his associates as being an fervent hater of Jewish people, and, in 1930, converted to Islam, and during the 1930′s, illegally supplied the National Socialist (Nazi) regime of Germany with petroleum from Arab states, and, during the 1930′s, illegally profited from illegally supplying the Nazi regime of Germany with petroleum from Arab states, and, during the 1940′s, praised Adolf Hitler and the Nazi regime of Germany and disparaged the British war effort that was, at that time, ongoing against Nazi Germany; between around 1922 and 1924, British officials, in contravention to the Faisal-Weizmann Agreement of 1919, created the Arab state of Transjordan, which is now Jordan, in the British Mandate of Palestine and, in contravention to the Faisal-Weizmann Agreement, officially explicitly excluded Transjordan from the terms of the Faisal-Weizmann Agreement
O In 1920, Amin al-Hussein was appointed, by British officials, to the position of Grand Mufti of Jerusalem
O In 1928, in Egypt, Hassan al-Banna founded the Muslim Brotherhood, which Amin al-Husseini joined later that year, and of which Amin al-Husseini became a prominent leader; the Muslim Brotherhood was, and is, a political organization whose ideology was based on, and is based on, the ideology of the orthodox Wahabi sect of the Sunni branch of orthodox original Islam, and on the European anti-Jewish hate-inciting fictional propaganda book “The Protocols of the Elders of Zion” (“The Protocols of the Learned Elders of Zion”), and was the officially founding political organization of the modern Islamic-Supremacist political movement, and was, and is, the central political organization of the Sunni branch of the modern Islamic-Supremacist political movement
O In 1935, Amin al-Husseini founded the Palestinian Arab Party, as part of the German-Nazi-inspired German-Nazi-allied Arab Nationalist political movement; Amin al-Husseini, using the Palestinian Arab Party, created al-Futuwa, a youth corps terrorist militia, which Amin al-Husseini officially called the Nazi Scouts, and whose members, during the 1930′s, murdered Arab leaders in pre-Israel, and in pre-The-West-Bank, who opposed him
O By 1938, Amin al-Husseini was opposed by most British officials
O From 1941 to 1945, Amin al-Husseini resided in Germany and, from 1941 to 1945, was an adjoined official of the Nazi regime of Germany
O Amin al-Husseini was a confidant of Adolf Hitler
O Amin al-Husseini was a colleague of Adolf Eichmann
O Amin al-Husseini, with his colleague Adolf Eichman, was the co-architect of the Nazi “Final Solution” – the mass-murder of almost all of the Jewish people in Europe – the mass-murder of approximately 6 million Jewish people – that was committed by the members of, and by many of the German and non-German European supporters of, and by some of the Arab supporters of, the Nazi regime of Germany
O During World War II, Amin al-Husseini created several Nazi Muslim S.S. divisions in the balkans, which were called the Hanzar divisions, and which participated in mass-murdering several hundred thousand Serbian people, and over ten thousand Jewish people, and over ten thousand Roma (Gypsy) people
O From 1941, to 1945, from the most powerful shortwave radio station that existed in Germany at that time, Radio Zeesen, Amin al-Husseini broadcasted “The Protocols of the Elders of Zion”-Jewish-conspiracy-theory-based, orthodox-original-Islam-based, genocidally anti-Jewish, and anti-American, anti-British, anti-democracy, pro-Nazi, Islamic-themed radio programs in Arabic, Turkish, and Farsi, to all of the countries in the Middle East, which were programs that became popular in Muslim countries in the Middle East, and which were programs to which Ruhollah Khomeini, the then-future founder of the Shia branch of the modern Islamic-Supremacist political movement, was, as a young man in Iran, a dedicated and regular listener
O In 1945, at the end of World War II, Amin al-Husseini was captured by Allied forces and was held France
O In 1946, Amin al-Husseini was allowed to escape to Egypt by British and French officials; Amin al-Hussieni received as a hero in the Middle East by Muslim Arab leaders and by Muslim Arab people, as a whole, in Muslim Arab countries in the Middle East
O Subsequently, in 1946, Amin al-Husseini took the position of head of the the Arab Higher Committee, the main official Arab coalition organization that existed at that time
O In 1947, the newly-founded United Nations proposed the creation of one Arab state, consisting of a majority of fertile land, and one Jewish state, which consisted of a minority of fertile land, in the part of the British Mandate of Palestine that had not become Transjordan. That proposal was accepted by the representatives of the Jewish liberation and national self-determination movement, the Zionist movement, which was headed, at that time, by Haim Weizmann, but that proposal was refused by the leaders of all of the leaders of the Arab states in the Middle East and by the representatives of the Arab Higher Committee, which was headed, at that time, by Amin al-Husseini
O In 1948, Amin al-Husseini, as head of the Arab Higher Committee, coordinated the Muslim Arab self-proclaimedly intendedly genocidal attack on Israel by the armies of five Arab countries, launched several days after Israel was voted a country in the United Nations by a majority vote
O Amin al-Husseini was the mentor of, and an uncle of, Egyptian-born Yasser Arafat
O Soon after World War II, the then-head of the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) of the United States, Allan Dulles – who was a friend of, and business associate of, Jack Philby, and who, with Jack Philby, had, in the 1930′s, illegally provided petroleum from Arab countries to the Nazi regime of Germany, and who, with Jack Philby, had, in the 1930′s, illegally profited from illegally providing petroleum from Arab countries to the Nazi regime of Germany – recruited several thousand German former Nazi officials into the CIA; those German former Nazi officials formed the bulk and core of the founding membership of the CIA; in 1952, in Egypt, at the behest of Amin al-Husseini, CIA officials who were German former Nazi officials trained the Egyptian Arab Nationalist army of Arab Nationalist then-General Gamal Abdel Nasser and trained Arab Nationalist commandos, including Yasser Arafat
O In 1957, Amin al-Husseini founded Fatah with Yasser Arafat and Mahmoud Abbas
The PLO, Yasser Arafat, the 1967 Muslim Arab war against Israel, and Hamas
O In 1964, in Egypt, then-President of Soviet-supported Egypt, Gamal Abdel Nasser, with members of the Soviet KGB, created the Palestinian Liberation Organization (the PLO). The 1964 PLO charter states that the goal of the PLO is the ending of what the PLO charter calls “the Zionist occupation of Palestine” and the destruction of, by any means necessary, what the PLO charter calls the “Zionist entity”. The 1964 PLO Charter explicitly states that “The West Bank” and “The Gaza Strip” are not included in what the PLO charter calls “the Zionist occupation of Palestine”. At that time, Jordan was occupying “The West Bank”, and had been occupying “The West Bank” since 1948, after the 1948 Muslim Arab attack on Israel, and, at that time, Egypt was occupying “The Gaza Strip”, and had been occupying “The Gaza Strip” since 1948, after the 1948 Muslim Arab attack on Israel
O During the 1960′s, Yasser Arafat was trained in the Balashikha KGB special-ops school in Russia by members of the KGB, and was groomed to become the head of the PLO.
O From 1966 to 1967, President of freshly Soviet-armed Egypt, Gamal Abdel Nasser, engaged in a campaign to militarily ally Arab countries together to militarily attack against Israel to destroy Israel – to commit genocide against Israel – and Gamal Abdel Nasser simultaneously launched, and engaged in, a genocidally-themed anti-Israel propaganda campaign in Arab countries in the Middle East.
O In 1967, after the armies of four Arab countries, including Egypt and Jordan, aligned along the borders of Israel in preparation to attack Israel, the army of Israel attacked and defeated those Arab armies, and took “The West Bank” from Jordan and took “The Gaza Strip” from Egypt.
O In 1968, the PLO Charter was changed to explicitly state that “The West Bank” and “The Gaza Strip” is part of what the 1968 PLO Charter calls “the Zionist occupation of Palestine”
O In 1969, Yasser Arafat, as the leader of Fatah, took the position of leader of the PLO.
O In 1988, Hamas was created. Hamas was created as an official arm of, and is an official arm of, the Muslim Brotherhood.
The Refugees from the 1948 Muslim Arab Attack on Israel
The 1948 Muslim Arab attack on the country of the Jewish people caused 600,000 to 700,000 Arab refugees from Israel. The 600,000 to 700,000 Arab refugees from, and the, currently, several million, descendants of the 600,000 to 700,000 Arab refugees from, the 1948 Muslim Arab attack on the country of the Jewish people, have been kept as refugees for over 60 years by Arab leaders and by the United Nations. The still living members of the 600,000 to 700,000 Arab refugees from, and the, currently, several million, descendants of the 600,000 to 700,000 Arab refugees from the 1948 Muslim Arab attack on the country of the Jewish people are not citizens of Israel.
The 1948 Muslim Arab attack on the country of the Jewish people caused 800,000 to 1,000,000 Jewish refugees from Muslim countries in the Middle East, where the families of those Jewish refugees had lived, as less than second class citizens, for centuries. The majority of the 800,000 to 1,000,000 Jewish refugees from Muslim Arab countries in the Middle East fled to, and found refuge in, Israel. The majority of the still living members of, and the majority of the descendants of, the 800,000 to 1,000,000 Jewish refugees from Muslim countries in the Middle East constitute approximately 50 percent of the Jewish population of Israel – approximately 50 percent of the Jewish citizenry of Israel.
Since 1945, there have been tens of millions of refugees in the world. Almost all of those refugees have been permanently relocated and absorbed into the populations of the countries to which they fled or were expelled (such as approximately ten million nationally Polish ethnically German people who were expelled from the Sudetenlands of Poland after World War II, and such as tens of millions of Muslim Indian people who relocated to Pakistan, and such as 800,000 to 1,000,000 Jewish refugees from Muslim countries in the Middle East who were forced to flee for their lives from Muslim countries in the Middle East to Israel after the 1948 Muslim Arab attack on Israel, and such as many other refugees who have been created in the world since 1945).
There exist two United Nations refugee organizations in the United Nations. One of the two United Nations refugee organizations is UNRWA. The sole official function of UNWRA is the aid and management of the Arab refugees from, and the descendants of the Arab refugees from, the 1948 Muslim Arab attack on Israel. The other of the two United Nations refugee organizations is UNHRC. The sole official function of UNHRC is the aid and management of all other refugees in the world.
Israel
The still living members of, and the descendants of, the Arab people who did not follow the instructions of Arab leaders to flee from Israel before, and who did not flee from Israel before, and who did not flee Israel during, and who were not expelled from Israel during, the 1948 Muslim Arab attack on Israel, are citizens of Israel and constitute approximately 20 percent of the population of Israel – approximately 20 percent of the citizenry of Israel.
Approximately 80 percent of the Arab population of Israel – approximately 80 percent of the Arab citizenry of Israel – are Muslim. Approximately 20 percent of the Arab population of Israel – approximately 20 percent of the Arab citizenry of Israel – are, in some cases, Druze, and, in other cases, Christian.
The still living members of, and the descendants of, the Jewish refugees from Arab countries in the Middle East do not refer to themselves as being Arab. They refer to themselves as being Mitzrahi (meaning Middle Eastern – non-European Middle Eastern; and literally meaning “Eastern”). They refer to themselves as being Jewish. The still living members of, and the descendants of, the Jewish refugees from Arab countries in the Middle East refer to themselves as being Mitzrahi Jewish in the same way that Jewish people from Europe – Jewish people whose ethnicity is Jewish and European – do not refer to themselves as being European but, rather, refer to themselves as being Ashkenazi Jewish and Sephardi Jewish (Ashkenazi meaning West-European and East-European, and literally meaning “German”, and Sephardi meaning Mediterranean-European, and literally meaning “Spanish”).
All citizens of Israel have equal rights and equal protection under the law in Israel.
The population of Israel is approximately 7.5 million people.
There are approximately 7.5 million citizens of Israel.
Approximately 6 million of the citizens of Israel are Jewish.
Approximately 1.5 million of the citizens of Israel are Arab.
Israel provides the water and electricity for the “Palestinian” Arab people in “The West Bank” and “The Gaza Strip”. Israel supplies the “Palestinian” Arab people in “The Gaza Strip” with tens of tons of food and medical supplies every week.
Israeli doctors treat “Palestinian” Arab people from “The West Bank” and from the “The Gaza Strip” in hospitals in Israel.
Throughout the past several decades, Israeli Jewish people and American Jewish people have created many Arab-Israeli, “Palestinian”-Israeli, Arab-Jewish, dialogue groups and peace-groups.
O The government of the United States provides 3 billion dollars of aid per year to Israel.
O The governments of European countries, and the government of the United States, and the government of Israel, and UNRWA, the United Nations refugee organization whose sole official function is the aid of and management of the Arab refugees from, and the descendants of the Arab refugees from, the 1948 Muslim Arab attack on Israel, have given the leadership of the “Palestinian” movement, Fatah-PLO-PalestinianAuthority and Hamas, trillions of dollars of aid.
O The government of the United States provides a total of over 3 billion dollars of aid per year to Muslim Arab states in the Middle East.
O The government of the United States provides 2 billion dollars of aid per year just to Egypt alone.
O The government of the United States gives more military aid – including more military armaments and more military protection – to the Saud family regime of Saudi Arabia than the government of the United States gives to any other state in the world.
O The largest, and controlling, voting bloc in the United Nations is the Organization of the Islamic Conference – a coalition of 57 Muslim governments – consisting of 56 Muslim states and Fatah-PLO-PalestinianAuthority.
Israel provides more intellectual academic resources, and life-saving and quality-of-life-improving medical technology, and earth-saving technology, and high-tech technology, to the world than does any other country in the world.
The Current Situation and What Needs to Be Done to Make the Situation Better
The Jewish people are a wounded people. Almost all Jewish people are afflicted, to varying degrees, as a psychological coping mechanism, by a deep profound form of Stockholm Syndrome.
Most of the members of the governing political classes of, and many members of the academic classes of, and most of the members of the journalistic, and so-called “intellectual”, classes, of Western countries, and especially of European countries, out of anciently and continuingly culturally engrained Western (Christian and post-Christian) anti-Jewish bigotry, and out of greed for petroleum from Muslim states, and out of greed for corrupt revenue from petroleum-producing Muslim states, and out of greed for revenue from petroleum trade with, and technological trade with, and much other trade with, with the Islamic-Supremacist regime of Iran, and out of fear of the modern Islamic-Supremacist political movement, are, in some cases, non-consciously, and, in other cases, consciously, engaged in a process of committing genocide, by proxy, against the country of the Jewish people, and are, non-consciously, endangering the well-being of the whole world. Their bigoted antipathy toward the Jewish people hinders their ability to perceive reality as it really is.
Currently, Western journalists, and especially European journalists, out of normal normative Western anti-Jewish bigotry, and, in the case of many European journalists, out of hatred toward Jewish people, and out of amoral immoral greed for Western bigoted sensationalistic stories of “Evil Jews Persecuting Beatific Innocent Victims”, which are untrue stories, and out of fear of murderous censorious Fatah-PLO-Palestinian-Authority and Hamas, have been, by lying by omission, with words and with images, and by lying blatantly, with words and with images, propagating lies that vilify the country of the Jewish people, Israel, and that utterly obfuscate the reality of the situation, which is the military, diplomatic, terroristic, propagandic, intendedly genocidal, racist Arab and Islamic-Supremacist, and colluding racist Western, war on the country of the Jewish people, Israel, which is a war that has been waged since several decades before the country of the Jewish people was officially established approximately sixty years ago, and which is an engagement of war that those journalists have become colluders with and members of. Those Western journalists have been indoctrinating the world with lies and have been inciting the world to genocide-by-proxy, via the adherents of the modern Islamic-Supremacist political movement, and, involved with that, via the adherents of the Pan-Arab Nationalist movement, and most recently, and most dangerously, via the Islamic-Supremacist regime of Iran, against the country of the Jewish people.
Malicious dishonest sanctimonious non-Jewish Western people decry that they hold no bigoted views about, and feel no bigoted antipathy toward, the Jewish people, and say that they are merely righteously outraged at the crimes that they accuse – wrongly and falsely accuse – Jewish people of having committed and of committing, and that, most fervently, and most influentially, immoral delusional non-malicious Jewish people and immoral deranged malicious Jewish people, accuse – wrongly and falsely accuse – Jewish people of having committed and of committing, and those malicious dishonest sanctimonious non-Jewish Western people prop up, as shields and weapons, the immoral delusional and deranged Jewish people who join them in wrongly and falsely accusing the Jewish people – in this era, wrongly and falsely accusing the country of the Jewish people. Nothing has changed in culturally Christian-European societies. Things in culturally Christian-European societies are as they have always been. Theobald of Cambridge – the ethnically Jewish Christian convert who, in England, in the 1100′s, invented and propagated the cannibalism-of-and-murder-of-Christian-European-children-libel (the “Blood Libel”) that was, for many centuries, propagated against the Jewish people by Christian European people – would feel at home in the current era and would have a seat of honor in the United Nations and in the European Union. European people recently, in their most recent mass-murder of Jewish people, mass-murdered almost all of the Jewish people in Europe, and they are currently holding perverse evil wrong views and doing perverse evil wrong actions in order to again feel comfortable in holding the obscene perverse culturally engrained wrong self-view that they hold that “The Jews are Evil; And (Therefore) We Are (I Am) Good”.
What is happening now is similar to what happened in the 1930′s.
What is untrue is believed to true, and what is true is believed to be untrue, by almost all people in the world.
In the 1930′s an obscene false narrative of there being “The Malevolent World-Controlling Exaggerating Warmongering Jews and The Maligned Victimized Germans” was believed by most people in Western countries, including most people in the United States, and was believed by most politically Liberal people in Western countries, including most politically Liberal people in the United States, and was believed most especially by politically Liberal and Leftist and Socialist self-professed “Pacifists”, including politically Liberal and Leftist and Socialist self-professed “Pacifists” in the United States.
Today an obscene perverse false narrative of there being “The Evil World-Controlling Lying Warmongering Ehtnically Cleansing War-Crime-Commiting Jews – no, rather, The Evil World-Controlling Lying Warmongering Ethnically Cleansing War-Crime-Commiting Israelis – no, rather, The Evil World-Controlling Lying Warmongering Ethnically-Cleansing War-Crime-Commiting ‘Zionists’, and The Beautific Noble ‘Palestinians’ Who Represent The Victimized Downtrodden Muslims, and The Noble Muslim Warriors Who Are Avenging The Persecution of The Beautific Noble ‘Palestinians’, and The Tough No-Nonsense Iranian Leaders Who Will Put The Evil Jews – no, rather, The Evil Israelis – no, rather, The Evil Zionists – in Their Place” is believed by most people in the world, and, in Western countries, is believed especially by self-professedly politically Liberal people.
For the well-being of the Jewish people, and for the well-being of all of the people in the world, decent aware people need to start joining together and need to start telling the truth – the factual history and current reality of the situation – to the world.
I am distraught and vexed and enraged about the situation that Jewish people are in. I am distraught and vexed and enraged about the evil actions of the people who are putting, and who have been putting, and whose ancestors have been putting, Jewish people in the situation that Jewish people are in, and that people who have been born Jewish in this world have been in for several thousand years. However, I strive to not be distressed and angry. I try to remember that, and keep in mind that, and I feel relieved when I remember that, and when I keep in mind that, every living being experiences the results of their own actions. Every living being is the owner of their own actions and is the inheritor of the results of their own actions. Harmful actions – unskillful actions – are actions that harm oneself or that harm others or that harm both oneself and others. Beneficial actions – skillful actions – are actions that do not harm oneself and that do not harm others. I strive to keep in mind that the suffering that I am experiencing may be the results of harmful actions that I may have done in the past – maybe in previous births. I strive to keep in mind that I have the ability to make the situation that I am in better by doing beneficial skillful actions, and I strive to be mindful of my actions and cautious with my actions and I strive to avoid doing harmful actions. I strive to not do any harm.
Dear Mr. Shahryar,
I read your articles with interest and thank you for your efforts. However, a couple of observations regrading your most recent article. First of all you refer to popularity of this regime…this regime has never been popular…and has ruled Iran by force….there are only in-circles who have benefited immensely since the advent of Islamic Republic…their numbers hardly reach a 10%…hardly a significant number. This regime has its paid civilians who are at the service of Islamic Republic and respond to any orders from the regime….Basij is such a group, people who lost love ones in war and are receiving government stipens and are afraid of losing their financial aid are another group….many other regime paid sympathizers are a part of that clan. Keyword being “paid”.
Also, I do not consider Karrubi and Mousavi the opposition. (They are one and the same and can and will do anything to help regime survive). A review of Iran’s election process will reveal that elections are nothing but a sham and orchestrated and therefore not valid and legitimate by any democratic standards. Regime hand picked only 4 candidates during the last presidential elections and “disqualified” the rest….so it was inevitable that one of the 4 would be selects by default. They are playing musical chairs and call it elections.
Hope I am making my point clear…there is no difference between Ahmadinejad and Mousavi or Karrubi. Mousavi wants to take us back to Khomeini days…that is his vision for Iran.
Regime spends millions to pour people on the streets. Many are government employees who are ordered to attend otherwise, they will face harassment and salary cuts if they refuse. Hardly a show of support for this regime.
Agreed. The problem is, the opposition needs leaders that are not tied to the government. However, they will be summarily rounded up and imprisoned. The advantage Mousavi and Karroubi have – even though they are tied to the establishment – is that they can remain free and continue giving the opposition some form of leadership.
I hope nothing discourages you from writing for PJM again, Josh. Great stuff. Keep it coming.
J.E.,
Au contraire, the more people fret and cry, the more it motivates me to write. So expect more stuff here from me soon. And thank you for the warm welcome.
Josh, I think your article is spot on and that you summed up the events of the day perfectly using that quote at the end from the dissident who said: “They held a small rally to make more enemies. We didn’t show up, but we’re making more friends every day.”
Although all of us who are opposed to this brutal regime would have loved nothing more than to see significant numbers of “greens” on the street drowning out the voices of regime supporters, it’s unrealistic and unfair to expect Iranians to face off against the brutal tactics of regime security forces. We all have nightmares of what happened in the past when they did, and it’s not something any of us want to re-live. I was disappointed with the results of Qods Day, but not because of the turnout. What disappointed me was that Mousavi and Karoubi, as the current “leaders” of the opposition, again remained in their homes, contrary to statements prior to the event stating they would go out no matter what the risk. That’s where I consider Qods Day a fail for the opposition.
Like you, I believe the opposition needs leaders not associated with the government. Unfortunately, however, Mousavi and Karoubi are currently the only ones inside Iran who seem to be able to garner attention from the international media when they speak out against the regime and point out its brutality. They are also the only ones inside Iran at the moment who can speak against this regime without being thrown in jail. So those opposed to the regime should recognize they need to work with what they have, not what they wished they had. And what they have currently, like it or not, are Mousavi and Karoubi.
As for where you publish, I don’t give a fig. I care about what you say and what you stand for…nothing else. Hate starts by putting labels on people…conservative, liberal, republican, democrat, jew, Iranian, etc….rather than judging people individually. Seems to me the world could do with fewer labels all around.
Jo,
Can you articulate for me a coherent synopsis of what the Iranian Opposition stands for… or against. Many of us, here in the West, want to see the opposition succeed but are reluctant to support a “different” Islamic Theocracy in Iran. We don’t know what the opposition wants to achieve other than the overthrow of Ahmedinajad and a few mean faced Ayatollahs. Are not Mousavi and Karoubi devout Muslims?… Imams in their own right? Are they fundamentalist in their beliefs? Do they treat their wives like slaves? Many, like me, don’t know… but would like to.
Wayne,
I don’t hear much about Karoubi’s wife but Zahra Rahnavard, Mousavi’s wife is very outspoken, active in the women’s rights movement in Iran and has made many statements criticizing Ahmadinejad. I doubt she could be considered anyone’s slave. As for Mousavi and Karoubi themselves, it was pointed out earlier they were and probably are still part of the regime. They are for reforming the current regime not replacing it. They still believe in the Islamic Republic but they want to give the people more voice and cut back on government powers. I, myself don’t trust them one bit but so long as they continue being a thorn in the regime’s side I’m all for the Green Movement using them. They both hold enough power and know where a lot of skeletons are buried so that they are not easily shut up.
Wayne, sorry for the late response but I just saw your question. Perry summed it up nicely, but I’ll just add my two cents. As a non-Iranian, all I know is what I’ve learned from my Iranian friends and others who have been actively involved in publicizing the human rights issues and atrocities committed by the current regime. They want a secular Iran where the government respects each individual’s basic human rights, is tolerant of different religious beliefs, doesn’t intrude on their daily lives, and doesn’t throw them in jail, torture or murder them for expressing themselves. They also want to be thought of as partners in this global existence of ours rather than pariahs. They want an “Iranian Republic” rather than an “Islamic Republic.”
However, not all Iranians opposed to the regime feel as my friends do. Some believe that the government can be reformed…that Iran should remain an “Islamic Republic,” just a less dictatorial and more tolerant version of the one currently in existence. I don’t know if that’s possible, because I personally don’t see how any government based on religious dictates can be tolerant, but even a reformed government that treats its citizens humanely would be an improvement over the regime they currently have. But it’s not up to me to decide what type of government they should have, it’s up to them. Sometimes you can only move forward by taking baby steps.
Aww, thank you, sweetie.
Agreed re; labels.
Correction:
I wrote,
“I means a lot to me.”
which should be,
“It means a lot to me.”
Noted, Dan. Thank you for putting your opinion out there. I appreciate it. We need more people opening up about what they think and what they believe in. We need people to know what people who disagree with them think, believe and honestly… FEEL.
Hey Josh,
Great article. Strange website this. I guess if I can read your work on Huff Post and EA I can read it here. The main thing is to get the word out to as many different people as possible. The people of Iran need as much support as they can get. Most of what I’ve read shows they are wanting a secular government, free of religious leaders forcing their views on them. They just want to run their own country the way they see fit. Those I’ve seen posting couldn’t care less what your religion is, if you are against the regime you are welcome. I see it pointed out many times that at one time Persians were great friends of the Jews and the people of Iran most likely would be again without their present government. An open, secular Iran could possibly be the best thing to ever happen in the Middle East.
Thank you Perry,
For your previous explanation as well.
Thank you, Perry. I know most people who read what I write about human rights care more about human rights than where it gets published. But, since most don’t usually comment, it might alarm some people here.
And you are spot on re; Persian/Jewish past relations.
The founder of Iran’s first empire, Cyrus the Great, actually freed captive Israelites from Babylonian captivity where they had been transported en masse by the brutal kings of Babylon. He also allowed them to go back to their homeland and build the Temple. While most Jews returned, the Temple wasn’t built for a few decades until Darius I helped build it. Because of Cyrus’ actions, he is the only non-gentile that is mentioned in the Bible as “the anointed one”.
I want to share some thoughts about the discussion re “conservative/liberal”:
1. there are different value systems leading to different world views and political stances
2. each of these value structures has a specific quality, e.g. if we had no postmodern cultural creatives, we would miss a lot of support for environmental and civil rights activism, if we had ONLY postmodern cultural creatives, nobody would get up at 4 am to produce our wheat.
3. each of these value structures can become pathologic, e.g. conservatives becoming racist or postmodern cultural creatives becoming culture-relativistic and thus not being able to see the oppressive face of islamist ideology.
4. from 1) and 2) I conclude that we should allow each individual to have it’s world view without dismissing it
If we want to address today’s urgent problems, I think we can’t afford to focus on our differences. Even with people having worlviews very close to mine, I surely could debate for hours about some differences we have.
But if we want to solve problems, we have to focus on our common interests. What is the common interest of conservatives, liberals, libertarians and leftists in regard to the political situation of Iran? Could we agree on some lowest common factor? Maybe “a political system granting civil rights to Iranian citizens”?
That leads me to what Josh said: he just engages for human rights, no political fixation, welcoming everybody joining the issue, no matter what worldview this individual may have.
Focusing on commonalities is equal to gaining maximum support for a cause, because more people will understand it being a cause of theirs.
Leo,
Thank you for your post. You make some good points. But if most Iranian advocates of regime change are also Jew hating Muslims, that is a non starter for me. And I’m not even Jewish. And I don’t buy it that you can be for the elimination of Israel, or the Israeli Gov’t, and not be a Jew hater. Josh, what say you?
Wayne,
Tell me if you buy this. When the Civil Rights Act was passed, those Whites that were racist, didn’t stop hating blacks. However, in time, many Whites who would have picked up racism simply because they saw it happening all around them gradually stopped being indoctrinated into becoming racists.
Anti-semitism in Iran is institutionalized because the government is Islamic. Once Iran has a secular government and the institutionalization of anti-semitism in Iran is halted, you will have fewer and fewer people being indoctrinated and, hopefully, fewer and fewer people becoming anti-semites.
One thing is fairly well-established. Once you have a government in Iran that does not want to be burdened with sanctions, you will see Iran cutting support to Hamas and Hezbollah. This will directly save lives. Both the main opposition leaders have pledged to re-establish ties with the West and I don’t think that is possible if Iran continues supporting Jews. So there’s a huge gain.
What do you think?
I see your point…… thank you.
Wayne, I read it as suppress the first time too because I’ve been following Josh for awhile but kept thinking something didn’t look right. I’m glad Josh corrected it as I would hate to have new readers get the wrong idea.
One other thing I noticed in a comment from another reader was that they lumped the Jews in with others such as the Baha’i in the way they treat them. Actually, the Jews in Iran are treated better than the Baha’i. At least they aren’t hanging the Jews for their religion as they are doing to the Baha’i.
Ok, enough from me for now. Wayne I hope you get to feeling better and I look forward to your next article.
[quote]Both the main opposition leaders have pledged to re-establish ties with the West and I don’t think that is possible if Iran continues supporting Jews. So there’s a huge gain.[/quote]
I think one of us missed your point. What do you mean by “I don’t think that is possible if Iran continues supporting Jews.”? Why should they not continue supporting Jews? The Israeli government has done some things I personally feel are pretty dumb but that doesn’t mean I would stop supporting the Jewish people. ( And no I’m not Jewish, Christian or Muslem, I’m pretty much agnostic.)
Sorry, Perry.
I was on a strong painkiller last night because of my back and many comments – including some above – are badly worded.
[quote]Both the main opposition leaders have pledged to re-establish ties with the West and I don’t think that is possible if Iran continues supporting Jews. So there’s a huge gain.[/quote]
What I meant was “I don’t think that is possible if Iran continues OPPOSING Jews.” IF Iran’s future leaders want the West to reciprocate their attempts at forging better ties, then they need to put their faith in peaceful negotiations between Israelis and a Palestinian government that also simultaneously isn’t an organization supporting terror.
Perry,
I read this word “supporting” as “suppressing”. Good catch. Perhaps Josh will clarify.
I am a liberal who believes in social justice, which is completely tied into human rights and helping out our fellow man. I want no dicrimination and believe society must not let women, children, and the elderly suffer. It is a crime to have such human rights violators on the council of the U.N. and to support the Islamists that abuse women, children, and all freedoms. It is inconceivable that leftists and journalists support those self-named “freedom fighters” that blow up people all over the world and demonize Israel with lie upon lie. Those who choose to believe the narrative and not look at history, are guilty of blind political correctness or outright cynicism for monetary or political gain. It is sad how the masses can be manipulated so easily.
cynthia,
Do you think the reason so many liberals support Hamas/Islam/Palestinians over Israel is that they are so focused on opposing Conservatives/Republicans/Capitalists that “the enemy of my enemy is my friend”? I am especially dismayed by the feminist left and their silence in the face of Shariah and The Misogyny of Islam. I expect more out of them when there is a Stoning of a woman. At least Carla Bruni had the courage to speak up. Where was NOW? I heard nothing out of them. Did I miss it?
wayne, if you read my comments on this and other blogs you would know that I nearly always attribute anti-Zionism to antisemitism and usually find little distinction between them regardless of the protestations of those who claim it’s “unfair” to attribute antisemitism to someone “merely” because they are hostile to Israel. However I do think there is another factor in play with the left – their opposition to Israel is based on their opposition to America and the West. Israel represents the West while her Arab and Muslim enemies are the nonwhite Third Worlders who are *always* the victims/good guys in their cosmology no matter how brutal, repressive and racist they are. I read an intriguing comment once that Chomsky, the archetypal left-wing anti-Zionist, did not care much about Israel one way or the other prior to the 6-day war which is when Israel was cemented as an American ally while the Arabs (until Sadat) sided with the Soviet Union (acutally it’s a bit more complicated than that but 1967 was a turning point). Having said that I *still* think antisemitism is a major component of anti-Zionism whether from the right, left or center.
Gary,
I am tending to agree with your position on this more and more. I have heard no coherent argument from anyone one critical of Israel. I know that no government is perfect, but the expectation (mostly form the American Left and certainly form the Islamists) is for Israel to voluntarily place their necks on the chopping block. They don’t even try to debate it. It’s just unequivocal support for any attack made by the Islamists, no matter how depraved or brutal, and immediate condemnation for any response by Israel. From O’Bama on down, the American Left is no friend to Israel.
We will defend ourselves by any means necessary.
Menachem,
I understand how you feel. However the situation is not hopeless. There are things that can be done to get Israel out of the very difficult situation that Israel is currently in. I apologize if some of what I wrote in my previous comment caused you to feel distress, and I apologize if some of what I wrote in my previous comment caused anger to arise in your mind. I was distressed and angry when I wrote some of the things that I wrote in my previous comment, and I think that some of those things that I wrote when I was distressed and angry were unbeneficial.
The situation is very hard and very difficult.
It will be very difficult for Israel to get out of the situation that Israel is in, but it is possible for Israel to get out of the situation that Israel is currently in. It will require skillful action for Israel to get out of the situation that Israel is currently in.
The following are unskillful harmful actions that Israeli leaders need to stop doing, and skillful beneficial actions that Israeli leaders need to do, in order to get Israel out of the situation that Israel is in, and in order to and protect the people of Israel from harm.
Israeli leaders – officials of the government of Israel – need to stop doing the following unskillful harmful actions.
Israeli leaders need to not do actions that are harmful to the people of Israel.
The following harmful actions are harmful actions that Israeli leaders have been doing, and are harmful actions that are very harmful to the people of Israel, and are harmful actions that Israeli leaders need to stop doing, and are harmful actions that Israeli leaders have been doing appeasingly – out of timidity toward Western leaders, and out of timidity toward Arab leaders, and increasingly, out of having internalized lies about the history and current reality of the situation, out of ignorance and delusion, and Israeli leaders have been doing the following harmful actions out of, as part of that, wrongly-acted-upon compassion that they feel toward the Arab refugees from the 1948 Muslim Arab attack on Israel.
O Israeli leaders need to stop accepting the untrue narrative about the situation.
O Israeli leaders need to stop falsely confessing to crimes of which Israel is falsely accused by obscenely immoral, surreally hypocritical attackers of Israel.
O Israeli leaders need to stop aiding, and co-operating with, and supporting, the racist, intendedly genocidal, political organizations Fatah-PLO-PalestinianAuthority and Hamas, which are political organizations both of whose official goal is the destruction of the country of the Jewish people, Israel, and which are political organizations whose members consciously use deceit as a strategic tactic in their effort to destroy Israel.
The following harmful action is a harmful action that Israeli leaders have been doing, and is a harmful action that is very harmful to the people of Israel, and is a harmful action that Israeli leaders need to stop doing, and is a harmful action that Israeli leaders have been doing passive-agressively – out of indignant anger that they feel toward Western leaders.
O Israeli leaders need to stop refraining from verbally defending Israel from false accusations which Israeli leaders know are false accusations, and which are false accusations that are a part of the untrue narrative about the situation.
Israeli leaders – officials of the government of Israel – need to do the following skillful beneficial actions.
Israeli leaders need to protect the people of Israel from harm. Israeli leaders need to protect the people of Israel from harm by doing the following skillful beneficial actions.
O Israeli leaders need to non-appeasingly, honestly, accurately, and clearly, effectively tell the factual history and current reality of the situation to the leaders of Western countries.
O Israeli leaders need to honestly, accurately, and clearly, effectively, with words and with images, communicate the factual history and current reality of the situation to the world.
O Israeli leaders need to reach out to leaders of Arab countries, and to Arab people in Arab countries, and need to do so with self-confidence, with non-appeasing honesty, and with loving kindness; Israeli leaders need to non-appeasingly, honestly, accurately, and clearly, effectively communicate the factual history and current reality of the situation to Arab leaders and to Arab people; Israeli leaders need to tell leaders of Arab countries, and Arab people in Arab countries, the experiences of the Jewish people throughout the past two thousand years, and Jewish Israeli leaders need to communicate to leaders of Arab countries, and to Arab people in Arab countries, how important the country of the Jewish people, Israel, is for the well-being of the Jewish people; Israeli leaders need to communicate to leaders of Arab countries, and to Arab people in Arab countries, that they, Israeli leaders, and Israeli people, want to be accepted into the community of the Middle East, as members of the community of the Middle East, and that they, Israeli leaders, and Israeli people, want to be a part of the community of the Middle East, and want to contribute to helping the community of the Middle East, and want to contribute to the well-being of the community of the Middle East.
O Israeli leaders need to reach out to “Palestinian” Arab people, and need to do so with self-confidence, with non-appeasing honesty, and with loving kindness; Israeli leaders need to non-appeasingly, honestly, accurately, and clearly, effectively communicate the factual history of the situation to “Palestinian” Arab people; Israeli leaders need to tell “Palestinian” Arab people the experiences of the Jewish people throughout the past two thousand years, and Israeli leaders need to communicate to “Palestinian” Arab people how important the country of the Jewish people, Israel, is for the well-being of the Jewish people; Israeli leaders need to communicate to “Palestinian” Arab people that they, Israeli leaders, and Israeli people, do not want to hurt “Palestinian” Arab people, and that they, Israeli leaders, and Israeli people, want to help the “Palestinian” Arab people.
O Jewish Israeli leaders – Jewish officials of the government of Israel – need to reach out to Arab Israeli people, and need to do so with self-confidence, with non-appeasing honesty, and with loving kindness; Jewish Israeli leaders – Jewish officials of the government of Israel – need to non-appeasingly, honestly, accurately, and clearly, effectively communicate the factual history and current reality of the situation to Arab Israeli people; Jewish Israeli officials need to tell the Arab Israeli people the experiences of the Jewish people throughout the past two thousand years, and Jewish Israeli officials need to communicate to Arab Israeli people how important Israel, the country of the Jewish people, is for the well-being of the Jewish people; Jewish officials of the government of Israel need to communicate to Arab Israeli people that they, Arab Israeli people, are full, welcome, members of Israeli society, and Jewish officials of the government of Israel need to respond properly to the needs of Arab Israeli people.
The facts that I listed (under the heading “Amin al-Hussein“, and under the heading “The PLO, Yasser Arafat, the 1967 Muslim Arab war against Israel, and Hamas“, and under the heading “The Refugees from the 1948 Muslim Arab Attack on Israel“, and under the heading “Israel“) in my previous comment (comment number 21 (#comment-626383) are facts of the factual history and current reality of the situation that Israeli leaders – officials of the government of Israel – need to communicate to the world.
Many of us liberals are totally put off by the leftists who have debased the ideals of human rights by blindly believing that Islam is peaceful and that Israel is the aggressor. I am for women’s rights and gay rights and am disgusted that the horrifying abuses in the Arab world are not brought to light every day in the media. The leftists groups, especially on campuses, are being used by the Islamofascists and they will be the first to be stoned or beheaded or “honor killed” by their downtrodden brothers! I am no longer affiliated with any political party as I cannot stand any form of prejudice or funding that controls politicians.
@josh maybe this video will help you out on what im referring to when i say about the sort of conservatives im against http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ms45EzMR0f8
if you take a glance on your right josh you will find other hate blogs from pajamas media and their tea bagger conservative blogs..and they support people like sarah palin ,glenn beck and dick armey who is the founder of the tea party..tea party is also funded by koch brothers.aka..”john birch society”
@josh i have done more for iranians inside iran than you will ever do in a lifetime so save your insults.your nothing more than just another feeble minded conservative blogger
maliheh,
Compare the people whom you are referring to as being bad with the people with whom the members of the political Left, as a whole, are colluding with.
I see that, in some cases, some of, and in other cases, many of, the views that are held by the people who you are referring to as bad are wrong. But the views that are held by the those who you are refering to as being bad that I see are wrong are much less harmful than the views that are held by the people who you are referring to as bad that I see are good are good.
There are other people who are politically contemporary-Conservative who hold less views that I see are wrong, and who hold more views that I see are right.
The views that are held by, and the actions that are being engaged in by, and the course of action that is being engaged in by, the people with whom the members of the political Left, as a whole, are colluding with, are unparalleledly and unsurpassedly evil.
I would have joined with Winston Churchill, who was politically Conservative, in opposition to the National Socialists (Nazis).
The Nazis in the 1930′s, were, in most cases until, and in some cases even after, the beginning of World War II, joined by politically Liberal self-professed “Pacifists”, and in the 1930′s, were, until Stalin and Hitler broke their alliance with each other, joined by many Socialists, and were mainly supported by – were hugely supported by – the ethnically West European, wealthy, governing, industrialist, financier, classes of the societies of Western countries – including of the United States.
maliheh, discerning discrimination is important. Discernment is important.
Discern what is evil and what is good.
Avoid and non-violently, skillfully, oppose evil. Avoid evil people. Seek out, and join with, good people.
cynthia,
Thank you for your support for the country of the Jewish people and for your support of the Jewish people. It means a lot to me. It is a support for me.
I used to, but no longer do, consider myself to be politically Liberal, and I used to, but no longer do, associate myself as being a member of the Democrat party (I now feel averse to saying “Democratic” party), of which I am still technically registered as a member. I, too, am no longer affiliated with any political party, and I am no longer affiliated with any political party for reasons that are similar to the reasons that you wrote that you are no longer affiliated with any political party.
I am averse to the contemporary political Left for reasons that, I think, may be more personal than the reasons that you have written that you are averse to the contemporary political Left.
I, unlike the vast majority of the members of the contemporary political Left (including criminally ignorant delusional Jewish people, and deranged Jewish people), know factual history, and am aware of current reality, and, therefore, do not believe obscene perverse lies that vilify the country of the Jewish people, Israel, and I am Jewish, and I, unlike the vast majority of the members of the contemporary political Left (including deranged people who are Jewish), am opposed to, and do not collude with, racist intendedly genocidal anti-Jewish totalitarian supremacist political movements.
maliheh,
In my previous comment to you, when I referred to the people who I referred to as being the people who you referred to who you implied were bad (who you were most likely implying were ignorant, and bigoted, and malicious), I was referring to the people you mentioned – Sarah Palin, Glenn Beck, Dick Armey. I hadn’t watched the video that you listed a link to. I just recently watched a little bit of the video that you listed a link to. The video is just a video clip of Janeane Garofalo talking (talking to Keith Olbermann). What Janeane Garofalo says in that video clip is mainly and essentially not true and what is presented in that video clip means nothing other than that Janeane Garofalo bigotedly holds wrong views, and feels sanctimonious malice toward people about whom she (and that Keith Olbermann bigotedly holds wrong views, and feels sanctimoneous malice towards people about whom who he) holds bigoted antipathetic wrong views about. That is mainly and essentially all that what is presented by the video to which you listed a link means.
There is a wide range of views among people who are politically conservative. maliheh, believe me, the members of the political Left, in general, as a whole, are currently much more ignorant, in general, than, and are much more ignorant especially about the most important issues of the present time than, and are currently much more bigoted than, are contemporary political Conservatives, in general, as a whole.
The following video presents information about what is presented in the video that you listed a linked to. I hope that you will watch the following video. If you watch the following video, I recommend that you watch at least all of the first several minutes of the video.
“The Narrative”, (Video) by Bill Whittle of PJTV (Pajamas Media TV)
http://bankoran.com/?p=83
In the following video, Thomas Sowell, a prominent contemporary Conservative political thinker, presents views that are essentially an overview of the general views of American contemporary Conservatism.
“Thomas Sowell — Dismantling America”, (Video) an interview with Thomas Sowell
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5SDLBqIubCs
In the following converstaion, Ibn Warraq and Tom Paine present an accurate critique of the wrong views that are held by the members of the contemporary political Left, in general, as a whole, about, and the wrong attitudes that are had by the members of the contemporary political Left, in general, as a whole, about, and the wrong actions that are engaged in by the members of the contemporary political Left, in general, as a whole, in response to, the modern Islamic Supremacist political movement (which is a political movement that began in the 1920′s and which is a political movement that is a resurgence of original authoritative Islam).
Ibn Warraq & Tom Paine – Western Civilisation One of the Greatest Inventions of Mankind” (Video (in audio-content-only video; three part video; the link is to time placement 5:05 in Part 2 of the video)) Interview with Ibn Warraq, hosted by Tom Paine (The name Tom Paine is not the real name of the host. The name Tom Paine is a pseudonym that the host uses.)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O6XfkmBMPUI&p=238A6CAE6A1034D8&index=2&playnext=2&t=5m5s
In the following video, Evan Sayet, who is a politically Conservative thinker and a politically Conservative political activist, expresses an accurate critique of the ideology of the members of the contemporary political Left, in general, as a whole, which is a critique that is an overview of the views that are held by contemporary political Conservatives about contemporary political Liberals, and which is a general overview of the views that are held by contemporary political Conservatives in general, as a whole. This talk accurately presents the views that are held by contemporary political Conservatives, in general, as a whole, about members of the contemporary political Left, in general, as a whole, and this talk accurately presents the general views that are held by contemporary political Conservatives, in general, as a whole.
“Evan Sayet at The Heritage Foundation”, (Video (length: 01:02:31)) The second talk given by Evan Sayet at The Heritage Foundation
http://www.viddler.com/explore/tonykatz/videos/1/