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Then I changed my mind. As I learned more about Palestine, the Arabs, the Muslims, Hamas, Hezbollah, the Jew, Israel, Middle East history and current affairs....
I'm like Elica Le Bon the young Iranian woman, above. Changed. And above, talking to Winston Marshall, wondering why others too don't change. I guess there's too much of a rush in feeling that virtue. You don't really want to know more, for fear of shaking the virtue.
There's plenty of willfully ignorant, studiously ignorant, lazily ignorant out there. Not to mention the peer pressure, when you're a student, that keeps you in line.
Elica speaks of 1979 when the Shah was overthown by Ayatollah Komenei. I remember it well. The Left in Iran were strong supporters of the Ayatollah. The first thing he did was to get his sidekick, Al-Baghdadi to round them up and execute them. Some 30,000 in all. Yet the Left in the west would still rather this ragtag gang of bearded medieval ghouls run the country, than the Shah, who had been modernising Iran. Giving women equality.
I was there in Iran in 1974, while the Shah was still in power. It felt like a pretty cool place. With cool people. Went trail bike riding in the desert with the young Iranian friends of our friends in Isfahan. Cool stuff. Today the people are still cool. But they're repressed. As we know, and as Elica tells us. The chance we had to support the young Green movement against the regime, was nixed by the brave Obama. Hmm....
