Where are our Friends?

The Iranian Student Movement Up to the Minute Reports ^ | 8-=31-03 | Yossi Olmert

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Where are our Friends?

By Yossi Olmert

http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?pagename=JPost/A/JPArticle/ShowFull&cid=1062228120045

Aug. 31, 2003 /Persia and Israel shared years of friendship and strategic cooperation until the Shah's regime was overthrown in 1979. Early good relations resulted from the fact that Persian nationalism did not contradict close relations with Israel. The Shah's never conducted a Shi'ite foreign policy, and Arab countries chiefly Iraq were the Shah's implacable enemies.

However, under the current Islamic Republic foreign policy is driven not only by Iranian interests but also by Islamicism. With regard to Israel, the Islamic element is dominant and unshakeable.

By adopting a vitriolic anti-Israel policy the Islamic regime hoped to win over Arab and Muslim public opinion. Let's admit it: They have largely succeeded.

By placing itself in the forefront of the struggle against Israel, the regime seeks to highlight the conflict in the Middle East as not just Israeli-Palestinian or Israel-Arab, but as one with a major religious dimension something that was previously in the background. For tactical reasons the religious angle was blurred by the Palestinians and the rest of the Arab world.

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Brief yourself on the events in Iran, the people, the issues that will likely effect all of our lives."

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Uh oh. Is it necessary now to excerpt articles from FreeRepublic when posting to FreeRepublic? I don't want JR to sue me.

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I'm sooo confused........

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My stupid question is: if these reports are "up-to-the-minute" why are they dated 8/31/03?

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No, it's not.

sorry, this is the end of a project and all posts are formatted this way.
Sorry for the inconvenience.

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Pan Arabism is imploding, and about time. Why is it the leaders of the Religion of Peace, Love and Tolorance have so LITTLE of any of these things themselves?

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This was posted back in August...

But this should be in the live thread:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1047866/posts

To post to the live thread, visit here, and click the link "support the student movement" to go to the latest thread-
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LOL

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Here's the URL for the archive.

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1024683/posts

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Thanks