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Iranian freedom fighter Amil Imani pens an eloquent tribute to the country on the front lines of the global jihad.
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.
Posted by Robert at May 10, 2008 6:39 AM
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I would hope many of those people who do not understand the suffering of those people under the muslim yolk can read this wonderful story. those mullahs,immans, muslim despots whose sad states try to blame the Jews, AMericans and all good things from the West for their people's suffering, instead of putting the blame when they look in their own mirrors.
May Israel continue to be the bloom in the desert, and thrive in their wonderful land of freedom so that their neighbours may finally wake up from their nightmare of islam. Happy BirthDay ISRAEL!
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at May 10, 2008 7:37 AM
May Israel endure and triumph!
Posted by: John C at May 10, 2008 8:00 AM
The same tribes who are waging war against Israel today, are essencialy the same ones who were engaging the same type of war in pre-Christian times.
This isn't a war about politics, land or anything. This is a war that Muslims are waging against the God of Israel, the One True God. Consequently, just like the other nations who fought against Israel were punished by God, the Muslims will also feel the Mighty Hand of the Lord, if they don't repent.
Happy Birthday ISRAEL!
ISRAEL AM CHAI!
Posted by: Crusader at May 10, 2008 9:42 AM
Happy birthday Israel! Be strong, keep your homeland safe for freedom! If your country falls, so do we all.
Support Freedom, buy Israeli.
at May 10, 2008 11:09 AM
Happy birthday Israel. Muslim hatred will not win. Justice, when it comes, will not be the false Islamic "justice" they think Allah ordained for them.
Posted by: Dsinc at May 10, 2008 12:28 PM
Long live Israel. And deep shame upon the Arab world where in some twenty Arab countries Arabs are less free by far than Israeli Arabs.
Posted by: Wellington at May 10, 2008 12:56 PM
Yes, Happy 60'th Birthday, Israel. May you live long and prosper.
Posted by: Eastview at May 10, 2008 3:21 PM
I will add my voice to the chorus: Happy Birthday Israel!
To every Israeli Jew reading this, and to every Jew of the Diaspora also - may the Holy One of Israel bless and keep you and your people and your land and your sacred places.
I am 44. One reason that I would like to live to be a very old lady, is because if I were granted another forty-plus years, I would be alive to see the renewed Jewish state of Israel celebrate its centenary.
May the Jihad be defeated. May all the dark strongholds of antisemitism be named, exposed, and broken in pieces. May the light of the glory of the living God shine out unstoppably.
Psalm 65. Psalm 67. Psalm 83. Psalm 85. Psalm 121. Psalm 122.
and, well, you get the idea!
Am Yisrael chai. Viva Israele!
Posted by: dumbledoresarmy at May 10, 2008 5:28 PM
Happy Birthday Israel
Freedom is priceless and worth fighting for.
Posted by: pulsar182 at May 10, 2008 8:24 PM
Yom Huledet Sameach, Yisrael!!!
Your achievements are really worthy ones - regaining your nation after 2000 years, resurrecting Hebrew from an archaic language to a fully functioning modern language that binds all Jews, converting a desert into a paradise, to name a few. Even though I happen to be a Gentile, your achievements are ones that even others (except your enemies) can be proud of.
I have a special wish for you - hopefully, by the next 60 years, Islam is as popular as Nazism and Communism is today, if not totally extinct. And once that happens, you won't have to bother about others trying to obliterate you: despite the non-Islamic anti-Semitism that's always existed, nothing threatens you like Islam.
Posted by: Infidel Pride at May 11, 2008 1:40 AM
Yes, Happy Birthday Israel!!! You inspire all of us anti-islamists with your struggle for peace, democracy and human rights. Keep the flame burning, and don't you dare weaken!!! For were Israel to fall to the blind, pathological hatred of muslims, so would the west. So keep the desert flame burning bright, and here's to the next sixty years!!!
Posted by: Convert at May 11, 2008 5:43 AM
I constantly worry about Israel and it's people, especially since it is surrounded on all sides by hateful Islamic countries overflowing with crazies bent on its destruction. I offer you my highest praise for having created your own country and for sucessfully defending it against such tremdous pressure from your enemies. It is my sincerest hope that Israel survives, prospers and grows and that those who seek its destruction are destroyed themselves. Happy Birthday, and wishes for many more to come.
Posted by: nightlight at May 12, 2008 6:55 PM
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at May 14, 2008 4:52 PM
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