@ CK MacLeod:
The Shah, like all Iranian rulers going back to Cyrus, understood that Israel and Iran were natural allies. Khomeini changed that. Allies-shmallies, thought Khomeini. Virtue is what matters.
The most dangerous of all hatreds are those that have no motivation. Hitler is the best example.
@ fuster:
1967, the year of the National Conference on the New Politics, was the year the far left swung into the ferociously anti-Israel position it has held ever since. In the days between the closing of the Straits of Tiran by Egypt and the start of the Six-Day War, the members of the Columbia Independent Committee on Vietnam, which I belonged to, suddenly began wishing for Israel's defeat. I had never heard anything like this before, and I still don't understand how they all became anti-Israel the same day. Then the war happened, and Israel won. The leftists never got over the bitterness of their disappointment.
Your comment about Lansky is a lie and a slur. In a world desperate to believe ever more bad things about Israel, it is also a danger.
Iran and Cuba have always hated Israel and have always persecuted homosexuals. Castro has now apologized for his anti-gay policies:
http://blabbeando.blogspot.com/2010/08/fidel-castro-on-persecution-against.html
Castro has also begun to question Iran's ambitions and made some favorable remarks about Israel. He is no longer in power, but maybe he can influence his little brother to recognize Israel.
@ CK MacLeod:
The Shah, like all Iranian rulers going back to Cyrus, understood that Israel and Iran were natural allies. Khomeini changed that. Allies-shmallies, thought Khomeini. Virtue is what matters.
The most dangerous of all hatreds are those that have no motivation. Hitler is the best example.
@ fuster:
1967, the year of the National Conference on the New Politics, was the year the far left swung into the ferociously anti-Israel position it has held ever since. In the days between the closing of the Straits of Tiran by Egypt and the start of the Six-Day War, the members of the Columbia Independent Committee on Vietnam, which I belonged to, suddenly began wishing for Israel's defeat. I had never heard anything like this before, and I still don't understand how they all became anti-Israel the same day. Then the war happened, and Israel won. The leftists never got over the bitterness of their disappointment.
Your comment about Lansky is a lie and a slur. In a world desperate to believe ever more bad things about Israel, it is also a danger.
Iran and Cuba have always hated Israel and have always persecuted homosexuals. Castro has now apologized for his anti-gay policies:
http://blabbeando.blogspot.com/2010/08/fidel-castro-on-persecution-against.html
Castro has also begun to question Iran's ambitions and made some favorable remarks about Israel. He is no longer in power, but maybe he can influence his little brother to recognize Israel.