Israel, Iran & US Relations

in response to a well thought out post by Gary Patrick Garry at Obama and Dialogue With “Enemies”

Very well put.

Sadly, there is a huge Dichotomy in who we can talk to without knowing and who we must support without questioning.

Speaking out against the US Israeli lobby’s de facto “we can do no wrong, don’t question our actions” brands you a Nazi sympathesier. The atrocities of the past are never far from the perceptions of the present and the “right” to offer objective dissent or tempered criticism is treated as an attack on their very existence.

Advocating communication with the “enemy“ Iran is the equivalent of treason. Iran is the same country, where a majority of the people themselves love the principle of America & who also held vigils in the streets of Tehran mourning the atrocities of 9-11, where the Iranian government held out a hand in support to hunt down Osama bin Laden and rid Afghanistan of the true terrorists, al-queda, but had their outstretched hand of reconciliation from decades of tension, sliced off in the slammed shut door of ideology courtesy of George Bush & his administration. Who is the true “enemy” here? The country and people we know little about, by design courtesy of our very own government, or our government that does everything in its powers to make sure we know nothing of our supposed “enemy“?

This is the atrocity of US-Isreali & US-Iranian relations. One is “do as I say and you have no right to question”, the other is “listen to what I know even though I have nothing to base my ‘knowledge’ on!”

As one is reminded ad nausea of the past & hardships of the Jewish people via movie, text & speech, there is no information available to either prove or disprove that the “enemy” is in fact an enemy. I would encourage all who have not already done so to either read the book Persopolis or see the movie. Ignorance and blind following is not the answer. This is the basis of war & hatred, not peace & understanding.