If you’re an anti-semitic regime that wants to annihilate Israel, then why would your president be tweeting New Year’s greetings to the world’s Jews? In Hebrew, no less.
May our shared Abrahamic roots deepen respect & bring peace & mutual understanding. L’Shanah Tovah. #RoshHashanah pic.twitter.com/UheJPrjuVx
— Hassan Rouhani (@HassanRouhani) September 13, 2015
In a similar spirit, President Obama has issued Nowruz greetings to the people of Iran.
Rouhani’s photo is presumably from an Iranian synagogue. Larry Cohler-Esses lately filed this report for the Forward on the 10,000-20,000 Jews of Iran, saying they are discriminated against for government positions but not in business, and
are basically well-protected second-class citizens — a broadly prosperous, largely middle-class community whose members have no hesitation about walking down the streets of Tehran wearing yarmulkes.
And speaking of inter-religious relations, look at this sad report from occupied Jerusalem. Israeli police stormed Al Aqsa mosque courtyard today as a “security measure.”
Ah U know, those Iranians, they lie like a rug, can’t be trusted, and are skilled at rug negotiations. As far as I know, the Jews didn’t invent Chess, the Persians did. Sorry, Jewish Geography.
RE: “If you’re an anti-semitic regime that wants to annihilate Israel, then why would your president be tweeting New Year’s greetings to the world’s Jews?” ~ James North and Philip Weiss
LIKE THE CHRISTIAN RECONSTRUCTIONISTS/DOMINIONISTS SAY: That Satan is oh so clever! Oh so devious! Oh so deceptive! He works in such mysterious ways! ! !
North Asks:
If you’re an anti-semitic regime that wants to annihilate Israel, then why would your president be tweeting New Year’s greetings to the world’s Jews?”
I dunno you’d have to ask Iran’s incarnation of Doktor Goebbels and he’d probably tell ya the same reason the Nazis took the Red Cross to Theresienstadt for show ‘n’ tell.
Why don’t ya go to the Iran Hebrew Congregation in Skokie and find out what they think about Rouhani’s Shana Tova? They know how much peril those Jews who remain in Iran are in. The Iran Hebrew Congregation is famous for the bilingual (Hebrew and Farsi) Siddurim and Chumashim that are used there.
The imams of Iran do not wish to annihilate Israel. But if the worldwide Palestinian vote results in exiling all but 5% of the Jews from Palestine, that will be all right with the imams. Meanwhile they (the imams) will lead the crowds in chants of “death to israel” or do they only chant “death to the zionist entity”. (and they will continue covering up the bombing of the Buenos Aires Jewish community center.)
Well, how much does Obama’s annual Nowruz greeting really mean, considering the crippling sanctions to which he’s subjected ordinary Iranians for years?