Posted on 02/07/2020 7:27:12 PM PST by robowombat
SHOCKING DEVELOPMENT: Some Arab countries are trying to get the Jews they forced out to return
FEBRUARY 7, 2020 BY BARENAKEDISLAM
More than 850,000 Jews lived in Arab countries in the 20th century. With the creation of Israel in 1948, all but a few thousand Jews were forced to leave the Arab countries where they had lived for generations and centuries. But today, there is a palpable longing in most Arab states for the Jews to return. Many believe that only with a Jewish presence will their countries blossom and develop as they did in the past.
World Israel News The purging of the Jews caused a crisis in almost every Arab country from which they came. Despite their relatively limited numbers, the Jews’ impact on society, culture, economy, and trade was crucial to the development of those countries, and their loss was felt. After the Jews were evicted from Iraq and Egypt, for example, those countries experienced crisis after crisis.
The Jewish contribution to Arab states was significant. In Egypt, the gold market flourished with a Jewish presence and continues to do so to this day, even though the Jews were thrown out and their stores ransacked. Jewish symbols like the Magen David remain engraved on Egyptian shops, in markets, and on buildings. The older generation still remembers the prosperity of the time when Jews were in possession of their stores.
It is no coincidence that Cairo has decided to invest tens of millions of dollars in the restoration of synagogues throughout Egypt. The most recent is the renovation of the once magnificent Eliyahu Hanavi (Elijah the Prophet) Synagogue, in which $6 million is being invested.
It is not only the Egyptians who want to coax back the prosperity that accompanied the Jewish presence. A few months ago, new Sudanese Minister of Religion Nasser Aladin called on Sudanese Jews whose families were forced to emigrate in the wake of the establishment of the State of Israel to return.
In Lebanon, over a million dollars has been invested in the restoration of the Magen Avraham synagogue in the Wadi Abu Jamil neighborhood in West Beirut, near the Lebanese parliament.
Perhaps more than any others, it is the Iraqis who long for the return of their Jewish brethren, and Iraqi Jews who long for their former homeland. In recent years, a number of Facebook accounts have opened in Israel to renew the connection between Iraqi Jews and the Arabs beside whom their ancestors lived in harmony for over a thousand years prior to the advent of Islam.
The Iraqi Jews were wrenched from their former home, but their contribution to the country is felt to this day. Like Jewish minorities in other countries, the Jews of Iraq concentrated on trade, crafts, light industry, governmental and municipal services, and banking. The impact of Jews on commerce and banking was especially significant.
Arab countries of old flourished in large part because of the contribution of their Jews. But then, in some countries, there was an exchange of populations: the Jews were forced out and Palestinian Arab refugees arrived in their place. The wealthy and educated Jewish population was replaced by a weak and poor population, a cultural shock that particularly affected Syria, Iraq, and Libya.
With the rise of xenophobic Arab/Muslim rejection of the State of Israel, the Arab states that could not beat Israel on the battlefield punished their Jews instead. Now, years later, there is a growing realization of the counter-productivity of that injustice, and many are calling for the Jews to return.
Some Muslims are even calling for a tax levied on non-Muslims in Arab countries to be returned to the Jews. Despite this growing sentiment, Arab leaders continue to choose for the most part to look the other way, not only refusing to protect the Jews but actively contributing to their persecution.
Perhaps not coincidentally, the Arab states suffer serial economic failures and never-ending wars and disputes. Some Muslims believe this is a punishment by Allah for their failure to protect the Jews, as they were instructed to do.
Would Jews whose families immigrated to Israel after being forced out of Arab countries ever want to return to those countries?
The greatest mistake that Spain ever made was expelling the Jews in 1492. The Jews were the basis of the mercantile operation in Spain. With their departure Spain depended on the gold taken from Latin America. When that dried up with the Latin American revolutions the Spaniards were left with little. 1492 in a sense was the beginning of the end for Spain.
That’s like the minorities in Stapleton on Staten Island saying “you know, when the Italians and Irish lived here it was a much better neighborhood. Come back!”
NO THANKS!
Turn yourselves around first.
Same for the arab countries.
“I will make you into a great nation,
and I will bless you;
I will make your name great,
and you will be a blessing.[a]
3 I will bless those who bless you,
and whoever curses you I will curse;
and all peoples on earth
will be blessed through you.
Best thing will be when they take back the Fakestinians. Note how they mostly avoid doing or even mentioning that, ha! ( can’t say I blame them much — who wants more dangerous violence- prone residents, alas. ). Maybe the ( so far nonexistent?) proposed fifty billion dollar fund can be used to facilitate this - I’d think a fraction would be enough actually - we will see. As it is, nobody wants them back, or wants them period regardless of their origins. Except the ruling elites of the West — . Alas)
The only reason why the Arabs want the Jews back is because they lost their Dhimmi base.
Everything you said is TRUE.
The arab countries have used “palestinians” the way dems have used blacks.
As for us taking them, e should have a CLOSED sign at our door
Arab Christians are refugees. Arab muslims..not so much.
Many Arab Christians are refugees. Many Muslims are invaders. As history so clearly demonstrates.
Wrong. They are crazy all the time. This is just blatant “use” of the jews by them in hopes things in their islamic countries miraculously get better.
Which is really funny and idiotic because let them try to wrap their warped minds around the fact they think this will be how allah blesses them, even though allah wants them to kill all kaffirs and especially the jews and christians.
Nope they are certifiably crazy, all the time.
They should take back their “Palestinian” Arab brothers first.
Agreed.
Did they read Genesis 12:3?
They can have my neighbor! God, talk about throwing a rock to a drowning man!
Yeah, I'm sure they do. I'd say, it's safe to return after the friendly neighborhood Arabs parade down the main thoroughfares with all the mullahs' heads on poles.
"To Serve Jews" is a COOKBOOK!
Jewish immigration into Palestine was encouraged in the 1920s by Abdulaziz ibn Saud. The Third Man, of a group of British, communist spies famous in the 1950s and 1960s, Kim Philby, was the son of Harry St. John Philby. The father became high advisor to founding Saudi Arabian King Abdulaziz ibn Saud. Philby converted to Islam, had numerous wives, and bought a 15 year old slave at an auction in Istanbul, a fact that has been scrubbed from Wikipedia. Ibn Saud, under Philby’s advice, encourage Jewish immigration into Palestine.
Surprisingly, Syria and Iran are the most Jewish-friendly countries there. Not that much of course, but friendlier than others.
Maybe Egypt—and maybe Syria But no others.
That’s strange logic; after 1492 Spain spread its influence through a massive colonial empire throughout the Americans and Caribbean, as well as Africa.
While revisionists will offer their own versions of the story to fit their agendas, Spain’s treatment of Jews at the time was mild compared to other European countries; they offered conversion as an alternative, and that reflected the true purpose: Spain had just recovered its lands from the Muslims (Granada fell in 1492), and the Muslims were still a threat (across the straits in North Africa); they’d oppose them with a unified country, and the faith would be the unifying factor (as various ethnic groups in Spain were unified by little else).
Viewed outside of the military situation, it is easy to portray the Spanish situation as simple hate; it was much more complicated than that. To many Jewish refugees of Nazism, Spain was a refuge; early in the 20th century (prior to Hitler’s rise to power), the Spanish government offered citizenship to the descendants of the Sephardic Jews. To Jewish populations remaining in Arab countries in 1967, Franco offered Spanish citizenship as well (allowing them a way out). Today Spain automatically grants citizenship to the descendants of expelled Jewish people.
I have no horse in this race, being neither Spanish or Jewish.
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