It is very much worth seeing this campaign, and applauding it for what it stands – a people to people effort to humanize each other, amidst enormous dehumanization.
I am acutely aware about the apocalyptic tendencies of Ahmadinejad and about the absolutist totalitarian oppression of Khamenei, including their support of terror and their subjugation of their own people. This movement doesn’t even engage with any of that – it transcends it, and shares a very important message from common Israeli people to common Iranian people. In the end, the people are the ones that will be able to transcend their extremist representatives and achieve co-existence.
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