27 March 2012

Iran vs Israel, Populations vs States

We love you Iran


A Love Letter From Israel to Iran
Here is one of the initial posts that caught light of this campaign. This forum captures a full coverage of the kind of outputs that the "Israel Loves Iran" had, including photographs, personal anecdotes and home-made videos. This was all around the time that Israel started threatening to bomb Iran.
"A message of love from Israelis to Iranians sounds stranger than fiction in these tense years where Iranian and Israeli governments threaten each other with any imaginable words. But we see examples of just this in a Facebook campaign launched by Pushpin Mehina (real name Ronny) in his timeline that says: 'We will never bomb your country. We love you.'"
Source: Global Voices



Iranians to Israelis: "We Are Your Friends"
Oddly enough, some Iranians responded back with a similar response. From the same forum, it was reported that a Facebook campaign was launched sharing similar sentiments to that of the "Israel Loves Iran" group. Although the Facebook page has a lot of pro-Israel sentiments, it does not show a use of strong emotive words such as 'love' quite as much, limiting its sentiment to being "friends".

The "Israel Loves Iran' Campaign

As is generally the case, the general populace of one country rarely oozes outright hatred for the people of another nation. It's a shame that those populations allow the State to gain authority over those populations and enact violent campaigns against other States falsely in the name of the people.

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