Happy Sixtieth Birthday, Israel

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Amil Imani
by Amil Imani
21-May-2008
 

Israel, your people, as well as people of good will, are celebrating your sixtieth birthday. We, the children of Cyrus the Great, also would like to offer our heartfelt best wishes to you on this occasion. Yet, this, in fact, is your rebirth. Your birth occurred some 4,000 years ago.

Regrettably, your journey from your early beginning to the present has been fraught with great suffering. It is a tribute to the indomitable spirit of your people that they persisted in their valiant struggle to re-gather again in the land of their birth.

A noble and just Persian king, Cyrus the Great, rescued your people from captivity in a foreign land and empowered them to return home and build their sacred temple. By his action of freeing an entire people from captivity and restoring their rightful dignity, Cyrus the Great, the author of the first code of Human Rights, cemented a bond of friendship between the Jews and the Persians. It was the Just King’s way of setting the world on a course of freedom, equality, and justice for all people, irrespective of any and all considerations.

Yet, your people, Israel, were unable to settle down for long in their own homeland, to worship their God as they wished, and to live in peace. They were assaulted once again by the forces of destruction that sent them scurrying for the relative safety of other lands.

Your rebirth, Israel, is in reality a culmination of thousands of years of gestation during which the Jewish people, dispersed through much of the world, endured immense degrees and varieties of suffering. The Nazi murderers and their collaborators capped the crimes committed against your people by brutally slaughtering six million innocent men, women and children.

Now, Israel, you are a sovereign state but hardly safe. You are surrounded by nations and peoples who are bent on your destruction. It is tragic that your neighbors and you have not been able to find an equitable way of living side-by-side with mutual respect and in peace.

Many of us Iranians co-suffer with this tragic state of affairs that harms you as well as your neighbors. We earnestly hope that ways can be found for a peaceful resolution of this destructive impasse.

We appreciate the fact that you, Israel, have welcomed the Iranian Jews who could no longer tolerate the rule of the oppressive venomous mullahs. These mullahs are indeed traitors to the lofty long-standing tradition and values championed by Cyrus the Great and revered by Persians throughout the ages.

We applaud you for affording millions of Israeli Arabs opportunities denied to them in many other lands.

Your fair treatment of the Baha’is, Israel, is a further testimony to your ability and willingness to live in harmony with any and all people. In Iran, the birthplace of the Baha’i faith, Baha’is are ruthlessly subjected to a form of gradual genocide by the savage mullahs. Some Baha’is are executed for their faith, Baha’i children are denied university studies, Baha’i holy places destroyed and even their cemeteries are bulldozed, just to cite a few examples. You, Israel, by contrast, have provided the Baha’is freedom to care for their holy places which were established in the Holy Land during the 19th century, long before your rebirth.

Your perennial prayer, “Next Year in Jerusalem” has finally been answered. We also pray that you succeed in taking the steps necessary for making the New Jerusalem a place of hope and lasting safety for your people as well as people of all religions and those with no religion at all.

Happy Sixtieth Birthday, Israel

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Amil's Birthday greeting to Israel

by JVP (not verified) on

l highly appreciate what he wrote because l being an African Bahai feel very for what portion he wrote about our status in lsrael.This is indeed the true for the Israels have been more than tolerant to the Bahais.It makes one wonder about the peace that should be honored by Islam but deny by its followers to the Bahais,Jews and Christians.l fell so hurt about these people who continue to brutalize,destroy and kill in the name of God.


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What is to celebrate?

by jamileh (not verified) on

How can anyone celebrate oppression and zionism. The Jewish state can not settle because they are on the Palestinians land. A celebration should not be had until they allow for the Palestinians to have the same rights as they enjoy within the Israeli borders; the freedom to go to school, cultivate their land, work, travel freely, etc. The day to celebrate is the day they are able to truly co-exist with out prejudice, violence and state repression.


Zion

Thanks Amil

by Zion on

For a wonderful and beautiful article.
Once this regime is gone, Iran and Israel will indeed be great allies again.
Have you seen these by the way?
//www.shahyad.net/yahudian/Iran-Israel/Koresh...

//www.shahyad.net/yahudian/Iran-Israel/Iran-k...

//www.shahyad.net/yahudian/Iran-Israel/Hapars...

(Thanks to the website Shahyad)

Small tokens of Jewish and Israeli respect for Iran and Persians, while the islamic regime in power in Iran demonizes Jews and Israel. Jews have not forgotten which is and will remain the true Iran.

Truthseeker,
You are mistaken. If Cyrus was alive he would have been proud and at home in Israel, a free land, where people`s religion and beliefs are respected, where Jews, Arabs, the Druz, Christians, Bahais all live in freedom. Where those who seek refuge, be it Arab homosexuals, African victims of genocide or muslims of Bosnia find open gates and a safe haven.


Abarmard

beghol e Shiraziya

by Abarmard on

mireh


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Amil you forgot something about Cyrus

by Truthseeker (not verified) on

Though he liberated the Jews and allowed them to return, he would have never approved at how Israel is treating the Palestinians. The current State of Israel and its government would be looked upon with shame from the great eyes of the liberator of mankind! I hardly think he would be celebrating, in fact what Israel has committed would surely awaken the wrath of Cyrus The Great!


jimzbund

lachaim, lachaim , to life

by jimzbund on

Happy Birthday  Israel,

 may you enjoy your promised land forever and be a candle of light in the darkness of that region. True Iranians love you and consider you a friend from ancient times.

 Shalom to you all

Bund, Jimz Bund