CMike
Zionist, proud to be
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Big deal, even Iran has Jews in their parliament.Blah blah blah. There are also Israeli Arabs who serve in the Israeli military and are part of the Israeli parliament.
That is much more than Arab countries do for Jews.
Like who?
I'll go first. Here is a list of arab members of the Israeli parliament.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Arab_members_of_the_Knesset
Here is a bit of how jews get treated in Iran.
http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/anti-semitism/iranjews.html
On the eve of Passover in 1999, 13 Jews from Shiraz and Isfahan in southern Iran were arrested and accused of spying for Israel and the United States. In September 2000, an Iranian appeals court upheld a decision to imprison ten of the thirteen Jews accused of spying for Israel. In the appeals court, ten of the accused were found guilty of cooperating with Israel and were given prison terms ranging from two to nine years. Three of the accused were found innocent in the first trial.5 In March 2001, one of the imprisoned Jews was released, a second was freed in January 2002, the remaining eight were set free in late October 2002. The last five apparently were released on furlough for an indefinite period, leaving them vulnerable to future arrest. Three others were reportedly pardoned by Iran's Supreme Leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei.6
At least 13 Jews have been executed in Iran since the Islamic revolution, most of them for either religious reasons or their connection to Israel. For example, in May 1998, Jewish businessman Ruhollah Kakhodah-Zadeh was hanged in prison without a public charge or legal proceeding, apparently for assisting Jews to emigrate.7
Today, Iran's Jewish population is the second largest in the Middle East, after Israel. Reports vary as to the condition and treatment of the small, tight-knit community, and the population of Iranian Jews can only be estimated due to the community’s isolation from world Jewry.
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