Comments on: Iran is provocative. U.S. and Israel, not so much.

By: atlmalcontent

atlmalcontent — Thu, 10 Jul 2008 03:32:05 +0000

To Mark M.:

I would suggest Iran could use more than “a little in the way of tolerance.” Israel treats the Palestinians with more tolerance than Iran does many of its own citizens (those that are not Muslim and male). I’m not absolving Israel, but to equate the two is reckless and dishonest.

Assume you’re a Iranian homosexual (not that any of them exist). Would you rather be in an Iranian prison or in Israeli custody? Same applies to a free-thinking woman.

Are you this understanding of Christian fundamentalists?

http://www.petertatchell.net/international/iranstatemurder.htm

By: Mark M.

Mark M. — Wed, 09 Jul 2008 19:39:27 +0000

Israel is not our 51st state and needs to fend for itself. It continues to build in the West Bank. Iran does not build in land outside of Iran (but it could use a little in the way of tolerance).
Pakistan is the real concern in the Middle East, not Iran.

By: Andisheh Nouraee

Andisheh Nouraee — Wed, 09 Jul 2008 19:27:43 +0000

I’m not suggesting Iran’s actions are not provocative, simply that the U.S. & Israel’s rhetoric and actions are at least equally as tension-heightening.

If the Iranian navy conducted exercises 12 miles off the coast from Pensacola, I would call that a tension-heightening action.

By: DaleC

DaleC — Wed, 09 Jul 2008 19:14:34 +0000

perceptions are different possibly becasue of that whole “wipe the Jews off the map” foreign policy