Letter: Iran IS to blame
Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad speaks at in Iran's nuclear enrichment facility in Natanz, south of capital Tehran (April, 9, 2007) Credit: AP
Regarding ["Don't blame Iran," Letters, Feb.14], should an Irish-American whose great-great-grandparents were born in the United States be permitted to return to Ireland? I'm sure the answer would be yes.
Should an Italian-American whose great-great-grandparents were born in the United States be permitted to return to the ancestral homeland? Again the answer would be yes.
Should a Jew whose great-great-grandparents were born in Russia, Poland, North Africa, Persia (Iran), China, India, etc., be permitted to return to the ancestral homeland?
Where is that? I think that the letter writer might have to agree that it is Israel. Jews have lived in Israel for the last 3,000 years, even before its name was changed to Palestine as punishment for rebelling against the Romans.
Some Jews were driven from Israel by the Babylonians, Egyptians, Persians, Greeks and Romans, but others have maintained a continuous presence. If Iran can proclaim that the Holocaust did not happen, then it can lie about its development of nuclear weapons.
Fred Zuckerberg, Roslyn Heights
