I've read recently several articles about the restoration of the synagogue from Beirut. With various lectures in the Arab blogosphere relating this "event" with the debate regarding the mosque/cultural center from the Ground Zero: "yes, we can, look at us how generous we are with them".
Exactly those arguments gave me the benefit of a huge doubt about jumping high of happiness after reading what it is happening in Lebanon. Because, no, I don't think so that the building of the mosque/cultural center from the Ground Zero is a welcomed decision: at least at the symbolical level, it is not about time to embrace wholeheartedly such an initiative. As for the Beirut case, there are synagogues built for a community decreasing from a year to another. And, yes, in Iran, the Jewish community is represented into the legislative body. Just saying...
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