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.
