A side to Iran you don't hear about
13-Jul-2007, 10:37 AM
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A side to Iran you don't hear about
you won't hear about this or anything of the sort of Jewvision (CNN, Fox, etc)
it shows that Iran isn't necessarily the crazy place you think it is...
Iran's Jews reject cash offer to move to Israel
· Expats offer families £30,000 to emigrate
· Our identity is not for sale, say community leaders
Robert Tait in Tehran
Thursday July 12, 2007
Guardian Unlimited
Iran's Jews have given the country a loyalty pledge in the face of cash offers aimed at encouraging them to move to Israel, the arch-enemy of its Islamic rulers.
The incentives — ranging from £5,000 a person to £30,000 for families — were offered from a special fund established by wealthy expatriate Jews in an effort to prompt a mass migration to Israel from among Iran's 25,000-strong Jewish community. The offers were made with Israel's official blessing and were additional to the usual state packages it provides to Jews emigrating from the diaspora.
However, the Society of Iranian Jews dismissed them as "immature political enticements" and said their national identity was not for sale.
"The identity of Iranian Jews is not tradeable for any amount of money," the society said in a statement. "Iranian Jews are among the most ancient Iranians. Iran's Jews love their Iranian identity and their culture, so threats and this immature political enticement will not achieve their aim of wiping out the identity of Iranian Jews."
The Israeli newspaper Ma'ariv reported that the incentives had been doubled after earlier offers of £2,500 a head failed to attract any Iranian Jews to leave for Israel.
Iran's sole Jewish MP, Morris Motamed, said the offers were insulting and put the country's Jews under pressure to prove their loyalty.
"It suggests the Iranian Jew can be encouraged to emigrate by money," he said. "Iran's Jews have always been free to emigrate and three-quarters of them did so after the revolution but 70% of those went to America, not Israel."
Iran's Jewish population has dwindled from around 80,000 at the time of the 1979 Islamic revolution but remains the largest of any country in the Middle East apart from Israel. Jews have lived in Iran since at least 700BC.
Hostility between Iran's Islamic government and Israel means Iranian Jews are often subject to official mistrust and scrutiny. In 2000 10 Jews in the southern city of Shiraz were jailed for spying for Israel, which Iran refuses to recognise.
A Jewish businessman, Ruhollah Kadkhodah-Zadeh, was hanged in 1998, apparently for allegedly helping Jews to emigrate.
Jews generally avoid political controversy, but Mr Motamed wrote a letter of protest to Iran's president, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, last year after he called the Holocaust "a myth". Mr Ahmadinejad had earlier said that Israel should be "wiped off the map".
Jews are free to practise their religion and have their own schools, although they are forced to open on Saturdays, the Jewish sabbath.
Despite the absence of diplomatic ties with Israel, Iranian Jews frequently go there to visit relatives.
it shows that Iran isn't necessarily the crazy place you think it is...
Iran's Jews reject cash offer to move to Israel
· Expats offer families £30,000 to emigrate
· Our identity is not for sale, say community leaders
Robert Tait in Tehran
Thursday July 12, 2007
Guardian Unlimited
Iran's Jews have given the country a loyalty pledge in the face of cash offers aimed at encouraging them to move to Israel, the arch-enemy of its Islamic rulers.
The incentives — ranging from £5,000 a person to £30,000 for families — were offered from a special fund established by wealthy expatriate Jews in an effort to prompt a mass migration to Israel from among Iran's 25,000-strong Jewish community. The offers were made with Israel's official blessing and were additional to the usual state packages it provides to Jews emigrating from the diaspora.
However, the Society of Iranian Jews dismissed them as "immature political enticements" and said their national identity was not for sale.
"The identity of Iranian Jews is not tradeable for any amount of money," the society said in a statement. "Iranian Jews are among the most ancient Iranians. Iran's Jews love their Iranian identity and their culture, so threats and this immature political enticement will not achieve their aim of wiping out the identity of Iranian Jews."
The Israeli newspaper Ma'ariv reported that the incentives had been doubled after earlier offers of £2,500 a head failed to attract any Iranian Jews to leave for Israel.
Iran's sole Jewish MP, Morris Motamed, said the offers were insulting and put the country's Jews under pressure to prove their loyalty.
"It suggests the Iranian Jew can be encouraged to emigrate by money," he said. "Iran's Jews have always been free to emigrate and three-quarters of them did so after the revolution but 70% of those went to America, not Israel."
Iran's Jewish population has dwindled from around 80,000 at the time of the 1979 Islamic revolution but remains the largest of any country in the Middle East apart from Israel. Jews have lived in Iran since at least 700BC.
Hostility between Iran's Islamic government and Israel means Iranian Jews are often subject to official mistrust and scrutiny. In 2000 10 Jews in the southern city of Shiraz were jailed for spying for Israel, which Iran refuses to recognise.
A Jewish businessman, Ruhollah Kadkhodah-Zadeh, was hanged in 1998, apparently for allegedly helping Jews to emigrate.
Jews generally avoid political controversy, but Mr Motamed wrote a letter of protest to Iran's president, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, last year after he called the Holocaust "a myth". Mr Ahmadinejad had earlier said that Israel should be "wiped off the map".
Jews are free to practise their religion and have their own schools, although they are forced to open on Saturdays, the Jewish sabbath.
Despite the absence of diplomatic ties with Israel, Iranian Jews frequently go there to visit relatives.
13-Jul-2007, 01:10 PM
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Re: A side to Iran you don't hear about
Originally posted by Bruce Fee
Jews are free to practise their religion and have their own schools, although they are forced to open on Saturdays, the Jewish sabbath.
Jews are free to practise their religion and have their own schools, although they are forced to open on Saturdays, the Jewish sabbath.
13-Jul-2007, 03:17 PM
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praise the infidel dogs!
praise the heretics!
praise anyone who cares more about life than a stupid religion that doesn't nothing but keep us stupid and separates us further from on another!
praise the heretics!
praise anyone who cares more about life than a stupid religion that doesn't nothing but keep us stupid and separates us further from on another!
13-Jul-2007, 03:44 PM
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Originally posted by Bruce Fee
praise the infidel dogs!
praise the heretics!
praise anyone who cares more about life than a stupid religion that doesn't nothing but keep us stupid and separates us further from on another!
praise the infidel dogs!
praise the heretics!
praise anyone who cares more about life than a stupid religion that doesn't nothing but keep us stupid and separates us further from on another!
19-Jul-2007, 08:41 AM
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you can't look at 'jews' as all the jews at once.
they're human. they're been ****** throughout the world because of they've been harassed by so many regions.
where you grow up, and what you call home has stronger attachment than a place your ancestors lived. It is not familiar to you.
Iran, has been home to many Jews for a long time, and they don't want to move or leave their home.
now, Iran is starting
executions of homosexuals and adulterers , but that's of the Allah, not the peaceful and loving population of Iran.
Zionism involves a great deal of evil and politics. Most people just want to live their lives.
they're human. they're been ****** throughout the world because of they've been harassed by so many regions.
where you grow up, and what you call home has stronger attachment than a place your ancestors lived. It is not familiar to you.
Iran, has been home to many Jews for a long time, and they don't want to move or leave their home.
now, Iran is starting
executions of homosexuals and adulterers , but that's of the Allah, not the peaceful and loving population of Iran.
Zionism involves a great deal of evil and politics. Most people just want to live their lives.
19-Jul-2007, 09:49 AM
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Originally posted by nnniiiccckkk007
do people still buy that line?
you're right, can't generalize....
zionists would like to think they speak on behalf of all jewry.
do people still buy that line?
you're right, can't generalize....
zionists would like to think they speak on behalf of all jewry.
offering Jewish ppl money to move to Israel is nothing new....why else would the Israeli Gov find the need to take over Palestinian land, demolish it, then build settlements for their ppl...all while confining the Palestinians to an area to which they are forced to live in tents and ish...
On-going conflict that will never end
19-Jul-2007, 11:26 AM
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Originally posted by Bruce Fee
dude.. they have been... that's cause no one likes them
if we gave jewish people israel, maybe we should give toronto to the natives.
dude.. they have been... that's cause no one likes them
if we gave jewish people israel, maybe we should give toronto to the natives.
Jews to Israel (or so they claim) is like Natives to CANADA not just Toronto.
We took over their land and they enjoy certain privelages we don't...thats fine
but in Israel...they took over the land (thanks to the Brits via Balfour Agreement) and they don't even enjoy the freedom to live!!!
