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Menashe Amir: The Voice of a People In an age when even the unqualified are extolled as experts, Amir is one of the last, true experts in his field, fueled by an insatiable love for Iran, Israel and the Jewish people. Ephix/Wikimedia Commons under the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported license. “Take a picture of us,” my father implored last week during what he described as one of his greatest celebrity sightings in Los Angeles. “Alright,” I responded, “but I want a photo, too.” The object of our wonder wasn’t a film or television star (this is Los Angeles, after all); it was an 81-year-old Iranian-Israeli veteran radio broadcaster named Menashe Amir. ....
In February former U.S. Deputy National Security Advisor Len Khodorkovsky, former senior adviser to the U.S. special representative for Iran, proposed the “Cyrus Accords” a peace initiative in the near future between Iran and Israel. The plan is a peace agreement between the people of Iran and the people of Israel who will benefit from one another economically, politically and in all other spheres. I do believe in the success of the Cyrus Accords once the current radical Islamic regime in Iran is removed from the equation. Coates and Khodorkovsky argue that Israelis and Iranians have a common bond and friendship dating back to Iran’s ancient ruler, Cyrus the Great who liberated the Israelites from Babylonian captivity in 538 B.C. Yet there are more recent examples of successful endeavors accomplished between both peoples from the mid-20 ....