Over 50000 Jews live in Tehran. They're not the troublesome Ashkenazi Jews from Europe who converted to Judaism for political reasons and who practice the least Judaism while saying nothing about human rights abuses in the concentration camp known as Gaza and the despicable apartheid in Israel. The Iranian Neturei Karta Jews are partners who live peaceably in Iran and recognise that Israel's ongoing and land grab is against their faith and illegal. Time is running out for ordinary Jews to stand up for the difference between right and wrong. What was the holocaust all about if it means the essence of Jewishness is silence on persecution? It's a mockery of all those senseless deaths.
Saturday, 29 September 2012
Friday, 28 September 2012
Cold War 07/24 After Stalin 1953 - 1956
The body being kicked in the photo above is probably one of the Hungarian secret police who assisted the Soviets and were strung up during the Hungarian revolution of 1956. Prior to this I was not aware that the Suez crisis took place at the same time and diverted attention from the Hungarian uprising. For a while the Hungarians succeeded in revolting against the USSR but the West failed to intervene and Russian tanks soon rolled in and took charge again. This was a point of bitterness for the Hungarians who had been assured through Radio Free Europe that all they had to do was hang in there and the West would come to the rescue. We never did.
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