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As someone who was born and lived in #Iran for a while [till I was ~15], have some thoughts to share about Quds day, and generally the hatred against #Israel that's being taught there:
- When I was 7, first day of school was a hell, long queues in the schoolyard
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Principle was shouting the rules of school and how different they were than our houses' rules.
Then the ritual began "Repeat this after me" he says, "Death to America" "Death to Israel" he adds! and we ignorantly were shouting those chants! without even knowing where Israel
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and US were!
- When I was 11-12, National Television channels were repeatedly playing a song " یه مسجد وسط دو تا مثلث اسیره" which means "A mosque was hold captive between two triangles [refers to Magen David "Star of David" in the flag of #Israel"]! Islamic Regime of #Iran

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kept injecting its propaganda against Israel to its own people! We were told that the Israeli lands were Palestinians' home since the beginning of time! We were never told that Jews were living and worshiping in/towards Jerusalem for
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centuries even before Muhammed's birth!
- I clearly remember the first time I went to Quds Day demonstrations! I had no clue why I was taken to that event! I didn't know where was Israel! I didn't know why was I shouting "Death to Israel"
I was just shouting it, loudly and
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Repeatedly!
We were brainwashed robots! we were numbers and figures in their statistics and videos!
This is the reality of Quds Day demonstrations: Free flags, gathering kids around as a fun day without knowing what the hell this is and being filmed by their cams!
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As long as someone don't READ from somewhere different than the #Iran sources, they wouldn't know why they were told to hate #Israel or to say "Death to"! they just DO!

It's been more than a decade that I KNOW what Israel really is, so I proudly say:

🇮🇱 Am Yisrael Chai 🇮🇱
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