But she is doing that already. Insofar as you and others privilege Western liberal criteria over survival against multiple imminent threats and internal populist activism for a brown nation struggling against your (our) own government, you are in-differentiable from the DP, and any counterbalancing dissemination of information is an act of building a viable alternative. ;-)I kid you... mostly... I swear... I still owe a response to your earlier post, which I shall deliver shortly in a significantly more weighty manner. --ravi
I know that you are only joking, Ravi, but here is a snippet from "Iran on the Brink" that describes the background of Shora Esmailian, one of the authors. >>In July 2005, one of the authors of this book, Shora, was returning to her work as a coordinator of the International Solidarity Movement for Palestine; upon her arrival at Tel Aviv's Ben Gurion Airport she was instantly accosted by security guards. After asking her the usual questions and making her wait for five hours, they took her to a room, adorned with pictures of Ariel Sharon and President Moshe Katsav (the latter, incidentally, born in Iran). A man presenting himself as "Sami" entered. Speaking in Persian, he asked Shora about her background in Iran and why she had left for Sweden; when she told him that her mother had been politically active, he demanded to know in what group. A smile lit up his face. "Sami" explained that he used to instruct Savak agents, "those agents that you and your mother feared". After showing her a list of 168 files documenting Shora's activism against the West Bank wall, "Sami" requested her mother's telephone number. He phoned her, insulted her, and threatened to throw her daughter into a cell where no one would ever find her, all this in a manner her mother would find familiar. Once again he explained how he had been a trainer for Savak "moghe-i ke Iran Iran bud", "when Iran was Iran".<< Norm Geras she is not. -- www.marxmail.org
