Reply #53: an examination

[Lithos]

The ADL article talks about the publication of the Protocols of Zion, a particularly detestable and disgusting tract. Specifically it talked about the publications in 1978, 1985 and 1994. The last being privately funded. The first two admittedly while under the direct auspicies of the Khomeini revolution.

As an aside, the US also has several organizations privately publishing the PoZ. The "Passion of Christ" is also based from publications of known Anti-Semites.

The Memri article while written in 2000 spends a good deal of it's time talking about quotations of Imam Khomeini. Khomeini died in 1989 so any comment attributable to him is before that. Iran, btw, has undergone some severe changes internally since that time. And while the last article does talk about the current Imam Khamanei making speeches against Judaism and Zionism, most of his comments in that light are usually part of a broader and more sustained series of attacks against the US.

Personally, I view the sustained dialogue against Israel as a way for Iran to puff itself up militarily without directly referencing the US, the reason for the buildup. Israel is nothing more than a surrogate for the US. Khamanei knows to attack Israel will invite a complete and total US response.

Think about it, Bush declared Iran one of the axis of evil in 2001. Khamanei started making increased Anti-Zionist remarks in 2002 right before Gulf War II. Shortly afterwards, Iran found the US military presence surrounding almost the entirety of it's periphery capped with a vast number of troops now in Iraq. At this time Iran has responded with increased rhetoric against the US and Israel as well as dramatic new displays highlighting it's missile and other technological military capabilities.

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