From: Dhu on Gate <campbell@neotext.ca>
Newsgroups: can.politics,alt.russian.z1
Subject: Re: Why is Israel worried about Iran?
Date: Fri, 13 Jun 2025 13:54:02 -0000 (UTC)
Organization: A noiseless patient Spider
On Fri, 13 Jun 2025 13:35:46 +0300, Oleg Smirnov wrote:
> Dhu on Gate, <news:102gp88$23gif$4@dont-email.me>
>
>> https://youtu.be/m3nxc8DHQ_U?t=195
>>
>> because Iran is full of Jews who are "onside" with their neighbors no
>> Israhel.
>
> The Judaism, in the form close to what is known as the Judaism
> today, was a product of significant Persian cultural influence.
> The Achaemenid Empire made an unprecedented effort to introduce
> a common ("early-monoteist" Zoroastrianism-based) god/faith for
> all the motley cultural-enthic groups included within it. The
> then Jewish elite, taken into "Babylonian captivity", touched
> the imperial culture, and were also affected with the imperial
> pursuit of religious universalism. Cyrus the Great then allowed
> the Jews to return to "Zion" on the condition that they will
> worship this kind of religion at the outskirt of the empire.
> They did so, but later, when the Achaemenid control / dominance
> over "province" was loosening, they had better (re)adopted it
> to the - solely pagan - pre-Babylonian Jewish-specific cultism.
> So the monoteist-like Judaism had been produced. Here seems to
> be laid the root of the issues between Israel and (post)Persia.
Before Achaemenids dominion Moses had attempted similar things in
Egypt, setting up a cultural/trade portal between the Indian Ocean
and Mediterranean via the Red sea: predisposed the "Jews" in
Yemen and Palestine towards monotheistic multiculturalism.
Dhu
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