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All Hollie can come up with is:
The links are out of date.
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Is that NaZIONist for "thank you"?
Emanamana,
Hollie is not capable of a substantive response to any post, there is always some excuse offered as to why she does not address the substance of posts. Don 't take it personally.
I was reading an article on Israel Hayom last week addressing a US billionaire, a Jewish man born in Iran, Izak Parviz Nazarian. He claimed many feats, from traveling to Europe, to traveling back and forth between Iran and Israel. It was unreal, all he claimed to have done in his life. He also claimed as a child Muslim kids threw rocks at him every day on the way home from school, and he claimed the Jews who wished to stay in Iran were all brainwashed, all 25,000 of them. He claimed he had no love or loyalty for his country of birth. And my husband grew up in Broujerd, I was reading the article to him out loud, and he said that man is lying. My husband went to school with Jewish kids, there was never that kind of hate between Muslim and Jewish kids. And there were and are Jews in Iran who see Iran as their home and who have no desire to leave their homes. A people's love for their homeland is natural, not an act of being brainwashed.
Israel Hayom | Nazarian
Sherri
Oh my, you're upset. If you scour the web, I'm sure you can find something from Robert Fisk to defend any silly claim you hope to promote.
Point of no return: Why do 20,000 Jews still live in Iran today?
It seems Sherri has found some selective data to support her rabid Jew hating. It seems not all is dates and camel's milk in the land of the Iranian Mullocrats.
Jews worldwide have been worried about what will happen to the nearly 20,000 Jews still living in Iran should a military conflict arise between the two countries.
Karmel Melamed of the Jewish Journal of Los Angeles put the question to Frank Nikbakht, one of a handful of experts. As director of the Committee for Religious Minorities in Iran, his research has been used by US government officials in the State Department and by other prominent community leaders to shed light on the Iranian regime’s treatment of Jews, Christians and Baha'is still living in that country.
Listen to Melamed's podcast here.
Nikbakht rightly points out that the 20,000 who are left are the remnant of a much larger community. These are the people who either have most wealth or status to lose if they leave - or are too old or poor to contemplate starting over outside Iran.
But what about the discrimination faced by Jews? A Jew's life is worth half of that of a Muslim according to Shari'a law. Here Nikbakht makes an especially interesting point. Jews no longer notice the fact they are discriminated against. They are so used to saying good things about the regime that this submissive and delusional mindset stays with them a good decade after they have left Iran. I suppose Bat Ye'or would call it dhimmitude.