The people of Iran have had some interesting publicized debates and will be voting insofar as the religious authorities let them. Let's see how the election falls out and how the fallout from the election falls out.

Carol, I noticed that you backed off of your sources of Jewish origins and defauilted to a simple statement of your version of things.

I think one of the main problems in the Mideast as well as in some of the forum threads is a simple refusal to acknowledge Jews as Palestinians.