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...President's taking office in Washington and a demonstration at Tehran University in support of the Gaza Palestinians. Several thousand students gathered on campus and acted out a page from the standard Islamic Resistance playbook. "The blood in our veins is a gift to our leader," they chanted. "Israel will be destroyed, and Gaza is victorious." Later, part of the crowd reconvened at the former U.S. embassy--now known as the Den of Spies--and burned posters of George W. Bush and Barack Obama...
Then there is U.S. support for Israel. Anti-Zionism is an ideological pillar of the Islamic revolution. One of the first things Khomeini did after the revolution, according to Salah Zawawi, the Palestinian ambassador to Iran for the past 27 years, was to raise the slogan "Today Iran, tomorrow Palestine!" Zawawi recounts how Khomeini declared Israel an unlawful country and named the last Friday of the holy month of Ramadan "Jerusalem Day" so Muslims could remember the occupation of the holy city and pray for its liberation. "He was dealing with the question of Palestine from a religious perspective," says...
...mess with our country," he says. But that would mean the U.S. accepting Iran's right to have a nonmilitary nuclear program, ending sanctions, apologizing for past misdeeds, shutting down covert operations and accepting Iran's right to support Hamas and Hizballah just as the U.S. supports Israel--a list unlikely to be welcomed by any administration in Washington. "If we accept that the U.S. interferes in the Middle East, then Iran is entitled to interfere in these issues according to its power," Atrianfar says. And that's from a moderate. For their part, some fundamentalist politicians think negotiating with...
...culpability for civilian deaths. Gazans elected Hamas and enthusiastically supported and lauded the relentless bombardment of traumatized and beleaguered Israeli civilians by tens of thousands of deliberately targeted rockets and mortars. It is surely time for Gazans, and in fact all Palestinians, to internalize that actions have consequences and Israel has practiced unwarranted restraint in the face of the deadly provocation it could no longer ignore. Fay Dicker, LAKEWOOD...
...pictures of 60 years of Israel...