Didn't Cyrus the Great, of Persia, liberat the Hebrew exiles to resettle and rebuild Jerusalem?

Maybe, Once, we were Human...feeling others' pain.

Now we are reduced to selfish, possessive Biped who refuse to share...

the problem here is that you are mistaking the land and territory which was then persia and is now partly iran for the actual people and descendants.

they are not the same people who lived in relative peace under the rule of cyrus. those nice and peaceful people were conquered by and replaced by the war mongering muslims and are no longer the same people.

the problems between israel or the jews and iran and other muslims date back to the book of genesis where abraham was told by God to cast out his first born son ishmael who was the son between him and the egyptian hand maid hagar. the reason was because God had planned to give abraham and sarah a child of their own even though sarah was 90 years old and way past child bearing age.

that son was isaac. isaac is the child of promise while ishmael was the child of the manipulations of sarah when she asked her hand maid to be a surrogate mother for her because she doubted God's ability to give her a natural born child of her own.

so, ever since this happened, there has been emnity between arab and jew. the very fact that both groups of people still exist should be proof to you that God is real and his word is true since God promise abraham that both of his sons would have descendants as numerous as the sands of the sea (not actually but as an allegory) and so they have both existed for nearly 6000 years.

not many people have an unbroken linage like that. and further more, God also said they would always be enemies until Jesus comes again....and so it is that this is true.

well you are missing a rather huge development, this was about 1,000 years before Persia was conquered by Mohamadean armies and the fairly innocous national religion of persia was replaced by the war-mongering and virulently anti-Semitic religion of Islam.

Although life for both muslims and jews in persia was made well by the pro-western and largely secular Shah under his rule, the "Iranian revolution" which was really an Islamic revolution, tossed Persians, and the relationship between Iran and the jewish people back into the dark ages.

You think they'd take a lesson from history...but noooo. A few days ago I read an article about the same thing. Israeli President Shimon Peres was using the story of Cyrus the Great to point out how ignorant Mahmoud Ahmadinejad is of history. Ahmadinejad seems to think Israel has no more than 70 years of history behind it. I'm astounded to no end that such a stupid and ignorant man became the president of a country and is now trying to get nuclear weapons....but in the end it's up to the Iranian people themselves to deal with him.

The difference being, one are far richer and more powerful than the other, and Iran are not in debt to the Israeli Bank of International settlements.

So Palestine must get help otherwise they surely wouldn't still exist? I perhaps reckon Iran are keeping them there because its like a safety guard the ONLY thing between them and Israel invading is a Palestinian front and probably Syria, when you consider the U.S are surrounding them with bases in all other countries around Iran.

Gaddafi wanted gold for oil not dollars and he wanted to liberate Africa from World banks using a gold standard and look what happened to him? A bounty on his head and murder without trial.

Gaddafi got rid of royalty and never even taxed his people but it took them 40 yrs to complain?

A clever well thought out question by the way <I> as I suspected of course you make valid points because you spot the floor in popular theory. I smell stinky floor too If Iran were to Nuke Israel it would not bode well with their allies in Palestine.

I think Iran have Jews and Christians also living there, and I has seen him that there Muckydinnerjacket getting a visit from some Orthodox Jews on YouTube a friendly meating was had, they ate cake together, all smiles and everything not one American flag burning!

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Don't look at me - I don't have a clue. Reminds me of that old ad - "My dog's better than your dog..."

My family (the whole overall family) had a little of everything, it seemed. And no one cared. A great aunt was Jewish, there's a bunch of Jehovah's Witnesses (although I don't think the stripper-cousin is a Witness anymore - LOL)....I come from the Christo-Pagan line. And it was more like - here's what mom believes - here's what dad believes - make up your own mind one day - And it doesn't hurt to learn about other religions. (Although I am convinced that those couple hours of Mennonite bible school in the evenings for those couple weeks in the summer was more a break for them from me than anything to do with religion. LOL)

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(((((eb))))) - I won't tell anyone I saw you at the scene. Here's some Floyd specially for you. ;P

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SmW17QvUhRM

Yes to all of your ancient history statements. And yes, I'd love for everyone to get along.

However, it's not the 6th century BC anymore, modern Iranians are not Cyrus and modern Israelis are not ancient Israelites. We have to deal with modern conflicts on modern terms and not pretend the last 2500 years didn't happen.

I WAS JUST THINKING ABOUT CYRUS THE GREAT ---- WEIRD MAN --- DO YOU KNOW WHAT THE WORD PEDANTIC MEANS --- OR THE APHORISM --- A LITTLE KNOWLEDGE IS A DANGEROUS THING

Maybe you could mention this to Netanyahoooo.

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let's make it

a tandem.

you steer.