Tornado Alley (PROG)

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Thanks, sorta ISN'T IT ALL GOOD STUFF!, yours, too! .. isn't it good to read REAL ..

“Congratulations on the 30th anniversary of the Islamic Revolution from the Jewish community of Esfahan.”

phylacteries .. Phylactery may mean:

* Phylactery, Greek term for tefillin, leather boxes worn on the arm and head during certain Jewish services
* Phylactery, an amulet to protect the wearer from harm
* Phylactery, in fantasy fiction, an object used by a lich to contain its soul

Thanks, i should have known ..



.. through the cluttered synagogue with its lovely rugs and unhappy plants. ..

lol, keeping my one palm tree company in my el-natural
looking, smallish back yard the 'hugiest' :) Happy plant ..



almost as that one, about 4 meters up.

Accepting, I inquired how he felt about the chants of “Death to Israel” — “Marg bar Esraeel” — that punctuate life in Iran.

“Let them say ‘Death to Israel,’ ” he said. “I’ve been in this store 43 years and never had a problem. I’ve visited
my relatives in Israel, but when I see something like the attack on Gaza, I demonstrate, too, as an Iranian.”

GOOD MAN!

the number of Iranian Jews has dwindled from about 100,000. But the exodus has been far less
complete than from Arab countries, where some 800,000 Jews resided when modern Israel came into being. [...]

In Algeria, Tunisia, Libya, Egypt and Iraq — countries where more than 485,000 Jews lived before
1948 — fewer than 2,000 remain. The Arab Jew has perished. The Persian Jew has fared better.

Of course, Israel’s unfinished cycle of wars has been with Arabs, not Persians, a fact that explains some of the discrepancy.

YUP, Israel's cycle of wars might explain much "of the discrepancy", one might think .. for sure ..

Perhaps I have a bias toward facts over words, but I say the reality of Iranian civility toward
Jews tells us more about Iran — its sophistication and culture — than all the inflammatory rhetoric.

Yes, fair and balanced ..

I know, if many Jews left Iran, it was for a reason. Hostility exists. The trumped-up charges of spying for Israel against a group of Shiraz Jews in 1999 showed the regime at its worst. Jews elect one representative to Parliament, but can vote for a Muslim if they prefer. A Muslim, however, cannot vote for a Jew. [...]

Bad, but good .. Iran does not make the claim and is not touted as being the 2nd democracy in the region.

Yes .. yes ..

Double standards don’t work anymore; the Middle East has become too sophisticated. One way to look at Iran’s scurrilous anti-Israel tirades is as a provocation to focus people on Israel’s bomb, its 41-year occupation of the West Bank, its Hamas denial, its repetitive use of overwhelming force. Iranian language can be vile, but any Middle East peace — and engagement with Tehran — will have to take account of these points.

Green Zoneism — the basing of Middle Eastern policy on the construction of imaginary worlds — has led nowhere.

Nice to read .. thanks, sorta.. oops, lol, no sorta.., i mean thanks for all, sortagreen.