Iran vs Israel

Individual Comparisons:

Iran:

1- Is a member of the IAEA

2- Iran has signed the Non-proliferation Treat (NPT)

3- The UN and IAEA inspectors have not found any evidence to prove Iran is moving towards building an atomic weapon.

4- Iran has so far abided the UN and its regulations,  cooperated with the IAEA within the guidelines of  Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT)

5- Has had the most number of  recorded UN inspectors on its sites than any other country  in the world

6- Is not currently a processor or nuclear fuel and does not hold any nuclear weapons

7- Has not initially attacked (been the aggressor towards) any country over the past 250 years

8- Iranian leaders publicly and repeatedly have emphasized their opposition to nuclear weapons

9- Iranian leaders have denounces war and shows their willingness to cooperate with the international regulating bodies to move towards world wide nuclear disarmament.

10- Iran accuses Israel of producing second and third generations nuclear war heads and not cooperating with the “international community”

Israel:

1- Is a member of the IAEA

2- Israel has NOT signed the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT)

3- Has broken more UN resolutions than any other country in the world

4- Possesses over two hundred ready nuclear war heads.

5- Has move or is moving towards 2nd and 3rd generation nuclear war head technology

6- Is the sole process of nuclear arms in the Middle East

7- Has had history of preemptive attacks against its enemies

8- Israel has previously and currently occupies its neighboring lands.

9- Israel  accuses the Iran of having ambitions to acquire nuclear weapons

10- Israeli leaders have publicly shown their readiness to attack Iran

Further Points:

• Israel is encourage
• Iran is feared
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• Israel is held as a friend and an ally
• Iran is an enemy and part of the “Axis of Evil”
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• Israel accuses Iran of violating human rights within its own country
• Iran accuses Israel of violating human rights outside its boarders (in Palestine)

The hypocrisy and the double standards in this world are extraordinary. In these hostile times between the two countries and turmoil around the world, we should remind ourselves that if there is no justice in the world, humanity shall never find peace.

Justice will come soon and so will peace between all.

Lets hope!

So what were the incorrect information and myths that the movie 300 presented to its viewers?

Lets start by the Persian kings themselves.  As depicted in “Xerxes” also known as “Khashayar”, the kings never shaved their heads or beards. They braided their hair. The Persian or Iranian Kings did not pierce their body or least not their faces to be visible; this was true throughout the Achaemenid or “Hakhamanesh” and the dynasties that followed them with occasional exception of ear piercing.

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It is important to know that unlike the movie 300 depicts, most Greek leaders, kings and scholars, if not all of them, including “Alexander the Great” were admirers of the Persians empire, kings, palaces and magnificent gardens. Most well-known of such palace was Persepolis, described as “The Richest City Under The Sun” whose remaining is still quite a magnificent site near today’s city of Shiraz. Alexander, in his youth, like many other Greek young students at the time studied the Iranian empire and its vast kingdom. The admiration and love for the Persian kingdom and their majestic palaces was so much that after the defeat of the Achaemenid’s king Darius III, Alexander married his daughter and declared himself “The Last Achaemenid Persian king”. He prepare a  massive and glorious state funeral for him and procrlaimed that “He (Darius) is to be put to rest and honored as a Persian king.”

Unlike as it was shown by Zack Snydeir, director of 300, the Persian kings did not whip or beat their workers. As a matter of fact, the Persepolis, also known as the city of kings, was built by workers who were paid for moving the stones and sculpting them; the salary astonishingly was based on the quality of their work. This also included women who participated in most of the decoration as well as construction. Such a governing system was unheard of at the time, a period during in which, the Egyptians, the later Romans, and the Greeks themselves would beat and torture their slave workers to death.

The movie 300 also stressed on the implication that Xerxes or “Khasharyar shah” proclaimed himself as God. The Persian kings never declared themselves as Gods. It is widely accepted that the Iranians were the first people who declared their worship to the “one God”. This was fundamintal a religious belief that all kings and their general public adhered by. The kings, however, were perceived as the mediator between man an the God of Ahura Mazda. This religious belief was founded on one of the most ancient holy books; the book of “Avesta”, which enclosed the religion of Zoroastrianism, a small minority of which that day still exists in Iran and parts of India.

Based on the Zoroastrian doctrine, it was the strong emphasis on honesty and integrity that gave the ancient Persians credibility to rule their vast kingdom. This was true even in the eyes of the people belonging to the conquered nations (Herodotus, mid 5th century B.C). “Truth for the sake of truth” was the universal motto and the very core of the Persian culture that was followed not only by the great kings, but even the ordinary Persians who made it a point to adhere to this code of conduct.

The Persian kings believed in one religion and cultural tolerance. This important foundation initiated during the ruling of Cyrus the Great, the first Achaemenid king, who freed the Jews from exile in Babylon to return to today’s Palestine and Egypt. Under the rule of Cyrus The Great, the “Cyrus Cylinder” was issued; the most ancient document that is considered to be the first universal declaration of human rights.

The number of people who are concerned about the future events pertaining to December 2012 is growing everyday. As we get closer to this date the general public’s curiosity, uncertainty and anxiety are increasing.  Many people are wondering what could possibly happen to the earth and to them on December 21, 2012. Questions of all forms are surfacing in the media and especially over the Internet every single day. People are asking “what will happen to us on 12/21/2012?”…  On the other hand quite a few others have doubts about the accuracy of these claims and smirk-off questions like “Is the end of the world prophecy true?” or “Is the word completely coming to an end in 2012?”

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To simplify the proclaimed logic behind the end of the world claims, lets mention the theories behind them:

1. The Galactic Alignment
2. Approaching Planet X

The Galactic alignment and the approaching “Planet X” (or Nibiru) are the two main theories that are being blamed for the much talked about cataclysmic effects of end of the world or dooms day, as we know it. These two doomsday theories are widely based on the prediction of the Mayan calendar, which has been  “predicted” to roll over to a new year on December 21, 2012. The start of a new Mayan year in 2012 is thought to be the start of the cataclysmic disasters. Much like how our  solar calendar causes many different seasonal affects, the galactic calendar will affect the earth in a more intense fashion. But did the Mayan’s get it right?

What is the Mayan calendar?

December 21 for the ancient Mayans marked a huge celebration period that recognized the end of a whole calendar cycle. A calendar that was not only based on the solar system (movement of the earth around the sun) or the lunar system (movement of the moon around the earth) but astonishingly it was based on a whole galactic system movement, comprising of movement of the moon around the earth, the earth around the sun, as well as our sun around it’s galaxy.

What is a galactic system and how does it work?

Just as the earth moves around the sun – identical to many other solar systems – our sun itself is in constant circulation around the black hole of its (our) galaxy. Most people are quite surprised to find out that the sun is moving at a speed of nearly 1,000,000 km every hour and is constantly accelerating. So with its massive gravitational force the sun is also pulling the earth and rest of our neighbouring planets along with it.

The Mayans with their incredible knowledge of astronomy were able to predict the movements of the moon around the earth, the movements of the earth around the sun and amazingly the movement of the sun (hence our solar system) around the Milky Way galaxy. And as far as we can prove, they did this flawlessly. This, for example, is evident in the prediction of their years. The Mayan years were so accurate that it eliminated the need for Leap years, something today’s calendars cannot avoid. These ancient people who lived (as far as archaeologists can trace back) nearly 5000 to 7000 years ago kept their solar calendar years to exactly 365.25 days.

The Mayan calendar predicts that the sun will finish its one complete rotation around the Milky Way galaxy, hence rolling over to a new galactic year. For the humankind on the earth, each galactic year takes approximately 26,000 solar years. At this time the sun will cross exactly through the galaxy’s equinox, which could also be considered as the Galaxy’s “equator”. If this prediction is true then it means that during such special galactic alignment the sun and the earth will be exposed to an increase in the gravitational forces that are triggered from the Milky Way galaxy’s centre, commonly know as the “Black Hole”.

Could the Mayan calendar predictions be right?

In the main, ancient people people of Maya produced a calendar that predicts the galactic alignment and disruption in the gravitational of force of the earth to be exactly on 12/21/12 2012 at 11:11 p.m. Universal Time. As explained above, the Mayan calendar’s solar tracking of the eathly days were extremely accurate, which is why many people believe that their early galactic prediction will also prove to be exact. Although there is no doubt that the solar system will eventually cross through the Milky Way’s equinox, there are many scientists engaged in vigorous debates on whether or not the Mayans were correct about their prediction and wheather or not this will prove to cause a polar shift on December 2012; something that remains to be witnessed for accuracy.

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