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I really don't understand why Israel has such animus against Iran. Didn't Cyrus the Great, the Iranian emperor, free the Israelites from bondage in Babylon, and to boot, rebuilt the temple in Jerusalem? Don't the Israelites owe a long-standing debt to the Iranians?

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Israel wants to create "greater Israel" and they despise Muslims. Iran has helped defend Palestinians and is a regional power. Israel is a lot like Nazi Germany or Imperial Japan, attacking other countries to grow their "empire", driven by racial supremacy. Zionism is a European ideology from the late 1800s and doesn't really have anything to do with ancient history.

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