Iranian Aliyah

I've recently been very taken by the whole Iranian Aliyah issue that has popped up in the past week, sparked by the secret Aliyah of some 40 Jews from Iran to Israel.

I remember last year, in my English class (with the anti-semitic, anti-Israel teacher) showed us a slideshow of someone's trip to Iran, and tried to show it off as some moder, hip, really cool place to live.

The slideshow was of course sparked by the recent academic dialogue about whether the United States should attack Iran because of the influx of terrorists that are fighting American troops in Iraq, as well as their violation against stopping their nuclear weapons program.

So my teacher, always wanting to portray terrorists in a "equal" light, showed us this video in the hopes that we would think differently about Iran. As the video ended she asked us who we thought the video was aimed for, in my annoying habit of ALWAYS answering a teachers question, I answered "hardcore conservatives."

She said she didn't think so, and I realized she was right, the point of this slideshow had a much more dangerous consequence, the audience was everyone, and the goal of it was to make the idea of attacking Iran an unappealing option in the average American's eye.

Now to be honest with you I think what is going on in Iraq is just a pathetic quagmire, that will have the United States military there for a long time, all the while sucking money from China to pay for the high costs of it. But when it comes to Iran there's another agenda to consider, that namely being that they want to destroy the State of Israel.

It's funny, because they are planning to do it with nuclear weapons because of the "Zionist Occupiers," and to "save" the Arabs who live there, yet do they not realize that a nuclear weapon will kill the Arabs as well?

Oh, and regarding Iran's capability to destroy Israel with nukes, a report on Arutz Sheva last week discussed what a nuclear war with Iran would look like on the causalities side. If Iran were to C"L shoot a nuke at Israel, they would have maximum 800 thousand causalities (one Jewish life is too much but we're talking theoretically".

The response from Israel would be the complete annihilation of the entire Iranian population, and the Israeli causalities are assuming that Israel isn't able to destroy Iran's nuke while it's in the air, either way Iran would be completely wiped off the map.

But, regarding Aliyah. . .According the article posted above, the Jews of Iran left in secret under the dead of night, to escape, via a third country, to Israel.

One of the sick things that Muslim controlled countries do, and particularly to Jews, is that they do not let all the members of a family leave at one time. This enables the government to keep a hold of the tongue of the absent family member from telling what life, really is like under a Muslim leadership.

I know someone from Iran who is unable to speak about what life was like there, because he fears that if his statements were ever tied to him, the Iranian government would kill the family he has there,.

Some of the Jews who came this week, were the last members of their families to leave Iran and they explained what life is like in Iran know, they have shut down all Jewish schools, it is forbidden to learn/speak Hebrew, Jewish children are forced to go to Muslim schools and that includes Jewish holy days like Yom Kippur.

The Jewish leadership of Iran came out against the Aliyah, and were opposed to it. I think, and others agree with me, that they were just saying it to keep the dogs of the government at bay so they won't start an influx of antisemitism.

One day the curtain will fall in Iran, just like it fell in Germany, Russia, and various Muslim countries, and I'm telling you it will be just like other cases when Jews were being persecuted, just for being Jewish, and the world found out how they were being treated. They'll show sympathy for about a week, then it'll be business as usual, and they'll ignore that this ever happened.