December 16, 2005
Robert Avrech's cinematic mind, and fierce ancestral loyalty that fires his imagination, pull it together as he contemplates this worrying and historic moment.
In 1979, [the Ayatollah Khomeini] and his mad mullah buddies eventually expelled several thousand Jews from Iran.
Taking their cue from European anti-Semites, the Persians "taxed" the Jews before allowing them the privilege of leaving Iran, allowing them to sell their properties and businesses at "fair" meaning, ruinous rates, thereby assuring that a whole generation of Jews left Iran feeling, well, kinda pissed.
That really is the good news.
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Avrech is the screenwriter who sussed out the fantasy on the Left that, comes the revolution or the dhimmitude, they will be promoted and, in contrast, we, we lumpen bourgeois riddled with false consciousness, will be pfffffft.
They think that when the time comes they will sit down with Osama bin Laden and cut a deal. Imagine how surprised they'll be when the cold blade hits their necks. Imagine their shock when they realize there is no negotiating with barbarians: that Osama makes no distinctions between Democrats and Republicans, between observant Jew and Buddhist chanting Jew. I hope it never comes to that, but imagine such a story line.
Let us hope it never comes to any of this. Boring is good. Barely escaping a showdown is good. Courageous engagement if required, is also good.
Mercy and peace to all mankind. We need it. Especially in conjunction with Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's Cranial Green Rays, reminding Roger L. Simon of Caligula with nuclear capacity. Tense indeed.
Another great link. Thanks.
Posted by: Richard Lawrence Cohen | December 19, 2005 at 10:45 AM