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Dear Iran, the Jews have already outlived many, many regimes.

JL;DR SUMMARY Nachum Kaplan's essay traces the resilience of the Jewish people through history, highlighting their survival and continuity despite numerous empires and regimes attempting to suppress or displace them. A way out west there was a fella, fella I want to tell you about, fella by the name of Jeff Lebowski. At least, that was the handle his lovin' parents gave him, but he never had much use for it himself. This Lebowski, he called himself the Dude. Now, Dude, that's a name no one would self-apply where I come from. But then, there was a lot about the Dude that didn't make a whole lot of sense to me. And a lot about where he lived, likewise. But then again, maybe that's why I found the place s'durned innarestin'.

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JerusalemZionismIranJewsResilienceExileSecond TempleHomelandEmpires

Places mentioned

Iran
"When Irans sadistic and unpopular clerical regime falls, as it surely will, there is no reason to think that Iranian-Israeli relations cannot thrive again."
Jerusalem, Palestinian Territories
"The famed Western Wall from the Jews Second Temple in Jerusalem, dating back to around the 2nd century BCE...."
Israel
"the Jews have outlived to be back in their homeland of Israel reads like a Whos Who of historys greatest empires."
Egypt
"Pharaonic Egypt was the first empire the Israelites saw off with their exodus from slavery, as told in the Torah, or in the Old Testament."
Iraq
"The Neo-Assyrian Empire (circa 740 CE to 605 BCE) expanded out of what is now northern Iraq to become the regions dominant power."
Saudi Arabia
"turning the Kingdom of Israel into a vassal state that had to pay tribute to avoid being sacked."
Syria
"Judah...until 198 BCE when the Seleucids took control....based in what is now Syria...."
Turkey
"Its capital was Constantinople. (True story: Once, when I was on a flight across Europe, the pilot announced, We are now flying over Constantinople, which the rest of the world calls Istanbul."
Hebron, Palestinian Territories
"Jewish communities continued to live in Jerusalem, Hebron, Safed—three of Judaisms Four Holy Cities—and elsewhere, and were permitted as long as they remained quiet."
India
"Caliphate-seeking lunatics who want to destroy Israel, bring down Muslim Kingdoms, and defeat the West...."

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