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Editorial In January of the current year, the mass departure of a number of Iranian Jews was on the top of the news of some foreign news agencies, who quoted the living conditions of the Jews in Iran, being terrible, painful and ignoble.
After this news maneuver, the representative of Jewish Community in the Islamic Consultative Assembly and the Iranian Jewish Association released reply letters and participated in several interviews, in which they denied the immigrating group’s baseless claims. Subsequently many Iranian Jewish organizations in Europe and US showed significant reactions in objection to this movement. From the writer’s point of view, considering the numerous documents and various historical evidences, which prove the freedom, security and full peace of the Jewish Iranians and their peaceful coexistence with other compatriots in their own country, there would be no need to repeat what has been said and written over the past years in proving and confirming the issue, because as an Iranian proverb says; “One word will be enough if there’s only one person in the house.” Even those who have minimum information about this land and the miscellaneous tribes and minorities who live therein, would be certainly aware of the role of this language, tribal, and religious diversification in protecting the nature of Iran and of how its affairs in various areas as economy, policy, society and culture are going on. With a short look at the brilliant records of Jewish Iranians in the scared defense, the one and only war in which Iranians were involved within the past 200 years, and in which they didn’t even lose a centimeter of their lands, and the list of tens of Jewish martyrs, the war-handicapped and POWs, we find the evidences for out claim. The sense of being an Iranian has been mixed with the flesh and blood of all Jews of this territory as well as other minorities and in no market and at no rate, it can be sold. Your affection in my soul, and your love in my heart Came to me when my mother nursed me and it will leave me when I die. What we have to consider about this suspicious news, which points to the organized immigration of the Jewish Iranians, is the exaggeration under which 27 Jewish Iranians out of whom more than one-third have been pilgrims and almost one-third have been tourists, and who have been collected from different flights with a pre-developed plan and at the presence of the representatives from different news agencies at a specific time at Tel Aviv airport, and with simultaneous broadcasting of an interview with Mr. Michael Jenkenovich, the speaker of an immigration agency, affiliated to Zionist Christians, are introduced as immigrants to Israel. Here we do not intend to state the conspiracies of the enemies of peace and security of the Jews, since there has never been an organization or entity in Iran who has been trying to destroy this possibility for the Iranian Jews under which they could select their place of living, and now some organizations of this kind try to initiate such events in order to help them administer their justice! What the writer tries to consider is the problems that these so-called friends of Jews have always put on the shoulder of this poor community. If we want to think of the Jewish community as a community under injustice and pressure, certainly the main cause of this iniquity is the same more-kind-than-mother-nurse group who once in a time strike horrendous strokes on the peace and convenience of the members of this community and who have always being trying to create disturbance in the relations between the members of this society and the neighboring and host communities. The patience of the Iranian Jews, as they have so far been silent against such conspiracies, which are received from “Friends”, is really admirable. The writer believes that if for whatever reason and under any prudence, we have been hedging from an important responsibility, by releasing manifests and verbal condemnation, against such conspiracies, from now on we are no more allowed to make such hesitation. Although, all those deployments have been correct in its own right, but, the incidents of this kind show that they have not been enough, and it requires stronger actions. It seems the conservative abstinence of some of the members of Jewish community from commenting and interfering in political issues, carried out to prevent risks, damages and politics and with the concern of becoming the pawn of others, incurs more expenses on this community. The silence of Jewish community against the ridiculous and foolish shows of Zionist parties, although they are justifiable with such interpretations as the silence of the wise against the lunatic, but it is not logical in some situations where the conspiracies of friend-like enemies incur serious damages on the creditability of the Jews. The Jewish communities throughout the world are minority communities and such scenarios indicate antihuman plots against these minorities. Let’s suppose the claim as hard living conditions of the minorities is a true one. In this case, no healthy mind would accept that for example for the clamorous rescue (in fact after the rescue!) of 40 Jews, they show the lives of tens of thousands of other Jews as being critical. Do these wet-nurse people have a goal other than the breach of human rights, which indicate the freedom of people in selecting the place of living? These movements are undoubtedly made in order to damage the credit of the Jewish Community throughout the world and to make the majority communities and societies of their living place to lose their mutual confidence. So, it is the duty of every pious and informed Jew to rely on natural confidence in order to prove to all people of the world that the Iran’s Jewish Community is not a plaything at the hands of others.
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