Esther and the Arrogant Warmonger Prime Minister

Esther's mausoleum in Hamedan 
(photo by Sanaz Shirshekar, copyright 2009)

Beautiful Jewish Queen of Iran, Esther, was able to prevent her Jewish community from annihilation, by countering the plotting speech of an arrogant warmonger Prime Minister of the time.

There were many 'false' or 'twisted truth'  in M. Netanyahu 's demagogic speech in his address to the US Congress on March 3rd.  I would like to point to two of them in particular.

1) Out of respect for the Truth, I spent over an hour on twitter searching to check Bibi's bold statement that ''Ayatollah Khamenei has tweeted in English Israel must be destroyed''. I couldn't find any such statement or similar. That would be a monumental lie by Prime Minister Netanyahu. Or at least a monumental twisting of the Truth, since Khamenei has always attacked 'Zionism' (he even compares Zionism to 'Nazism'), and he is one of the strongest critics of the 'Zionist' policy of occupying Palestinian lands and of suppressing and oppressing Palestinians (he isn't alone as everyone should know). Everyone should appreciate the difference between Israel, a country, and Zionism, a political ideology. But during my search, I also noticed Khamenei tweeted many times, and insisted on, his equal respect for Jews, Christian, and Muslims (Shiite and Sunnite alike).  If you find Ayatollah Khamenei has tweeted such thing as alleged by Benjamin Netanyahu, I would be immensely grateful to have you 'copy and paste' here for the sake of the Truth. I wasn't able to find. 

Moreover, Khamenei doesn't know much any English, and for me, when I read his tweets, it is easy to notice that someone else might be managing in his name with a poor translation from Persian into a much poorer English than mine, unlike M. Netanyahu who masters the language. Therefore INSISTING, as Bibi did, on the idea that Khamenei writes in English is also a figure of rhetoric reinforcing his above allegation (that I believe to be false), in a speech that can obviously be qualified as a purely, completely, and solely anti-Iranian speech. 

2) The second twisting of the truth I chose to talk is when Prime Minister Netanyahu mentions the biblical story of Esther and pretends she saved the Jews from annihilation by Iranians, thus using it to reinforce his anti-Iranian rhetoric. A serious dangerous lie or twist of the truth.  He just failed to mention that Esther is not only Jewish but is herself Persian-Iranian, in birth and in death, and, even most importantly, she was the Queen of the Persian-Iranian empire. What she did was to counter a plot by an arrogant and intolerant prime minister. Her mausoleum still stands in the Iranian city of Hamedan (Ecbâtân), still safeguarded by Iranians - god knows for how long, amid widespread anti-Iranianism and growing destructive power of Islamists everywhere.

Although the story of Esther is, after all, nothing but a primitive biblical story written by, and destined to, our primitive ancestors, it can also be summarized more adequately as follow: you need an arrogant warmonger anti-jewish or anti-Iranian prime minister to create trouble.

Netanyahu's Biggest Lie

Joseph Goebbels on the ''Big Lie'':

“If you tell a lie big enough and keep repeating it, people will eventually come to believe it.

Benjamin Netanyahu 's Biggest Lie: ''Iran wants to annihilate Israel.''

Esther in warmonger Netanyahu's anti-Iranian speech in the US Congress

On March 3, 2015, Israeli Prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu made a speech at the USA Congress, dominated by Republicans, to blast President Barack Obama's administration  for negotiating with Iran, and... ,mainly, to promote his own image for the coming elections in Israel, as a hardliner acclaimed by America!

I feel sorry for the people of Israel for having Netanyahu as ''leader'', and sorry that human being still admires and follows warmongering demagogues. Sorry to see so many members of the US Congress giving so many standing ovations to a warmongering demagogue.

Warmongers, of course, are found not only in Israel and Iran but also plenty in the USA and everywhere else. We must not listen to them and must not follow them. Bibi's speech is a warmongering one. No positive proposal for peace. Analyzing his speech, there are truths and false, truths are twisted in promoting his warmongering rhetoric, essentially by portraying Iran as ''the enemy''. Iran and Israel are friends, not enemies. Warmongers on both sides are pushing us against each other.

  

 Amongst his ''twisting of the truth'', was his presenting of the biblical figure Esther as a courageous Jewish woman who helped save Jewish community from being annihilated by Iranians. What a dangerous falsification of history by a warmonger demagogue. Esther was Jewish, yes, but she also was an Iranian Queen, he conveniently forgets to mention! It is her marriage to the Persian king that helped save the Jewish community. The point is not about Esther. It is, after all,  just a biblical story. The point is that there are some people who are brainwashed or brain-damaged with the idea of animosity, and who promote animosity, like Bibi; people who promote or just believe in the idea that one cannot be at the same time Jewish and Iranian! Well, among my best friends, Sam Nosratabadi (who recently passed away in Israel, former President of Iranian Students at the time I met him), Nasir and Manouchehr Pirouzian who live in Belgium, Houshang Gabbay who lives between Iran and England, and the list is long, are all Iranian and Jewish, proud to be both. Former Israeli President Moshe Katsav, born in the city of Yazd in Iran, was proud of being Jewish AND Iranian (they were speaking Persian at home, in Israel) AND Israeli.

French President (François Hollande) pledges to protect Jewish community

French President pledges to protect Jewish community as anti-Semitism is on the rise: CP24, Monday February 23, 2015, News titles, 7:04 pm.

French President, François Holland, is acting foolishly (of course, he is not the only one).

Firstly, those who recently profaned Jewish cemetery in France shall not be called anti-Semite. Those Islamic extremists, some of them who recently killed Jewish in Paris, cannot be called anti-Semite for the simple reason that they were Arab Muslims, and Arabs like Jews are Semitics, not anti-Semitics.

Secondly, those committing acts of terror against Jews in Paris might also do it as a reaction to the blind support given by their French President to the state of Israel, and particularly to its extremely arrogant, anti-Arab, anti-Palestinian, anti Iranian, anti-Russian, Anti-Barack-Obama, prime minister Netanyahu. This friend of Holland, Netanyahu, is, no doubt, part of the problem. Therefore those Islamic killers should be called anti-Netanyahu or anti-Israel or anti-Zionist or ''people enraged by Holland's foreign policy of blind support to Israel, and of discriminating in favor of the Jews, whether French or Israelis''. They shouldn't be called necessarily ''anti-Jewish'' and certainly not ''anti-Semite''.

Thirdly, François Holland, as President of France, should pledge to protect all French people (including Jewish and Arabs), not only Jews. Why discriminating the Jews by pledging to protect them separately? Journalists in Charlie Hebdo who were the main target of the terrorist killings weren't Jewish.

Last but certainly not least importantly, everyone knows that these extremist terrorists are financed and supported by the wealthy rulers of Qatar and of backward Saudi Arabia, whom François Holland befriends (as do many others, e.g. prime minister of Canada Stephen Harper, Senator of Arizona John McCain, former US Secretary of State and presidential hopeful, Hillary Clinton, and, sadly, many other officials in the mercantile developed but corrupted Western society. Doesn't Monsieur Holland (M. Harper, Mrs Clinton, and others) realize that it makes him an accomplice to the crimes perpetuated everywhere by those Islamic terrorists, including in France and against Jewish French?

That is why Holland's words and actions must be called foolish, for making him (and many others) an accomplice to those crimes and acts of terrors perpetrated by Islamic extremists everywhere on this planet.

Comment for Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu on his UN Speech

A Comment for Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu on his UN Speech

Posted on 2014/09/29 commenting a video on You Tube

Prime Minister Netanyahu, I can only hope you will read this.
It is sadly and profoundly  regrettable that you stand in front of the UN General Assembly, at such a dramatic time when the region and the whole world is in disarray, with nothing positive to offer than an exclusively anti - Iranian speech, not against a regime, but against Iran. There are terrorists cutting heads and committing acts of unprecedented violence,  right nearby where you and the people of Israel, Palestine, Syria, Lebanon, Turkey, Jordan, Kurdistan, Iraq, Iran and many others live. And  what is your reaction? Your solution? Bashing Iran. Bashing Iran, and again and exclusively, bashing Iran. Iran, like it or not, who offers to fight those crazy extremists.
I am Iran. A free Iran. Iran of Cyrus and Darius. Stop bashing Iran.
I 100% support Israel's right to exist as a Sate. As a Hebrew state.
And at the same time I 100% support Palestine's right to exist as a State.
I am against nuclear armament and I am advocating disarmament, worldwide, including and most importantly nuclear disarmament.
M. Netanyahu, your narrative is a warmongering narrative. I don't like it. And I am not the only one. Your permanent warmongering anti-Iranian speech, sir, is an obstacle to peace in the region, and an obstacle to world peace. And an obstacle to a free Iran.
Shodja Eddin Ziaian
shodjaeddin@gmail.com