The current president of Iran, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, has stated that he wants to "wipe Israel off the map." I find this historically ironic because 2,500 years the Persians had their chance to do just that. Instead, Artaxerxes allowed the Jewish exiles (exiled by the Babylonians) to return to Jerusalem and rebuild the temple of Solomon. The very people who allowed Israel to restore their cultural homeland...now wants to erase them from the atlas. Ahmadinejad always calls upon the greatness of Persia's history to re-affirm Iran's place in the world. He obviously was sleeping during this particular lesson in his World History class.
Sunday, September 28, 2008
Middle Eastern Ironies
The current president of Iran, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, has stated that he wants to "wipe Israel off the map." I find this historically ironic because 2,500 years the Persians had their chance to do just that. Instead, Artaxerxes allowed the Jewish exiles (exiled by the Babylonians) to return to Jerusalem and rebuild the temple of Solomon. The very people who allowed Israel to restore their cultural homeland...now wants to erase them from the atlas. Ahmadinejad always calls upon the greatness of Persia's history to re-affirm Iran's place in the world. He obviously was sleeping during this particular lesson in his World History class.
