Posted on 09/02/2023 4:07:08 PM PDT by Eleutheria5
Iranian weightlifter Mustafa Rajaei was banned from participating in any sports event after he shook the hand of his Israeli competitor, Maksim Svirsky, at a World Masters championship in Poland, Iran's Weightlifting Federation announced on Wednesday.
"The Weightlifting Federation strongly condemns the action of the veteran weightlifter of the Iranian team during the World Veteran Championship, which is against the ideals of the Islamic Republic of Iran,"...
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That’s the Arabs. Iranians are a different sort altogether.
Love me some three stooges, except for Curly Joe, who was just annoying and sounded gay. On the other hand, their feature film Three Stooges Meet Hercules was pretty funny, even with Curly Joe.
That’s classy, alright. Good on Tolkien. I’ve read Lord of the Rings two or three times.
I think Charlie Chaplin replied that “I’m afraid I haven’t got that honor” when accused of being Jewish by a Nazi, at least in the movie.
His mother was part or wholly Gypsy, but in his one film that involved Gypsies, they were the bad guys.
The book of Esther calls them that as the people from Fars were the elite of the Achaemenid empire. But they called themselves Aryans. Just as the Vedic North Indians called themselves Aryans
Nothing whatsoever to do with the Germans.
Fars is after the Euphrates River, Nhar Pras in Hebrew.
Wherever this whole “Aryan” notion comes from, it’s not Germanic or Nordic peoples, and it has nothing to do with the myth about the sunken city of Atlantis, either.
تشکرها.
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