Jews who fled Arab lands now press their cause

SFgate.com ^ | March 28, 2004 | Jack Epstein

[Nachum]

Regina Bublil Waldman, a Libya-born Jew, still recalls the minute details of the day 37 years ago when her homeland turned against her.

The ordeal began in June of 1967, after the then-19-year-old translator for a British engineering firm in Tripoli received a phone call at work from her frantic mother.

[I got the rope]

I have a Jewish friend whose family is from Tripoli. He never told me why they came here...now I know.

[Bismarck]

A sad story... but at least things aren't that bad in Morocco. One of my best friends is a Moroccan whose mother is Jewish, yet he is very proud of being Moroccan and has never faced any sort of discrimination or harassment in his home-country. Regrettably, this is an exception to the rule in the Arab world.

[BroncosFan]

The other "right of return." For a people who secretly run the world, they aren't doing a great job getting this message out.

[7MMmag]

Th Arab States will not apologize.
(various Arabs may acknowledge the wider truths, however...)
The injustices will keep simmering, until the whole world is brought into the conflict.
Excuse me while I go throw up.

[MSCASEY]

bump!!

[Salem]

Very interesting article, Nachum, thanks for posting it. I don't anticipate this untold part of the story generating the same passionate response from the UN and the rest of the world that the "Palistinian" issue they have actively permitted to fester for decades.




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[fatidic]

You mean there are refugees, cruelly deposed and yet not living in squalid refugee camps blowing themselves and other up. Incredible!

The Palestinians love to wallow in misery and filth while the Jews excel in every country they are forced to flee into. Seeing, though denying, the moral, intellectual and intestinal fortitude of the Jews drives Muslims into a violent frenzy. This conflict between Allah and his minions and the Creator God of the Bible and his children is a fight unto death.

[Lent]

>A sad story... but at least things aren't that bad in Morocco. One of my best friends is a Moroccan whose mother is Jewish, yet he is very proud of being Moroccan and has never faced any sort of discrimination or harassment in his home-country. Regrettably, this is an exception to the rule in the Arab world.
3 posted on 03/28/2004 12:28:03 PM CST by Bismarck

Well, I think the reference is to the historical antecedents. And Morocco was one of the worst perpetrators of Arab-Islamic ethnic cleansing against the Jews. Approx. 250,000 Jews fled from what is now Morocco because of the Islamic persecutions, pogroms, etc. Hence the 5,000 or so who remain are quite cognizant of this always possible historical trip-wire of Arab Islamic animus.

By the way, from the Christian standpoint, the mass exodus of Christians because of Islamic persecution in this area preceded this exodus by roughly 700 years under the very intolerant Maghrebi type of Islam.

[Imal]

"There should be no linkage of one refugee problem with another," said Jess Khanem, a member of the executive committee of the Palestinian Right to Return Coalition and president of the American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee in San Francisco. "It's not a Palestinian problem or issue. If any person feels wrongfully displaced, that needs to be addressed with their home country."

Fine. If that's they way they feel about it, I will make a point of having as much compassion for "Palestinians" as they have for Mizrahi Jews.

[Straight Vermonter]

[XBob]

It may be useful to post/ping/list this or something similar to every Palestinian demand for repatriation and demand Jewish repatriation repayment, from every Arab country, every time they demand something similar from Israel.

[dennisw]

On Monday, Sen. Rick Santorum, R-Pa., is scheduled to introduce a resolution that would instruct U.S. envoys to raise the Jewish refugee issue every time the Palestinian refugee issue is raised as "an integral part of any comprehensive peace."
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Way to go Rick!!!

[Ciexyz]

Kudos to Rick Santorum.

[Cicero]

The whole of North Africa was Christian, with pockets of Jews, before Muhammed came along.

[Alouette]

You'd think with all that land they could find space for the "Palestinians." But then they would have no rabid attack wolves to send against Israel.

[af_vet_1981]

On Monday, Sen. Rick Santorum, R-Pa., is scheduled to introduce a resolution that would instruct U.S. envoys to raise the Jewish refugee issue every time the Palestinian refugee issue is raised as "an integral part of any comprehensive peace."

Sen. Santorum is one of the bright lights in the Senate.

[cookcounty]

My wife's family left Morocco in 1967 when the crowds chanting "death to the Jews" at their door got to be more than they felt thay wanted to endure, They had to smuggle their life's saving out to f the country and my wife (a teenager at the time) was strip-searched to find hidden valuables. Nonetheless, it probably is true that the Moroccan Jews were not as hard pressed as in other Arab countries

You're right about North Africa being largely Christian before Mohammed. The Christians were converted, sometimes by force (Under the "dhimmis" system, Jews and Christians paid the taxes. you could avoid those burdens if you converted). The christians were in many cases, able to flee to Europe. The Jews had nowhere to go for 1300 years ----until Israel came into being in 1948.

[Clemenza]

A bit off topic, but I must say the Mizrahim have some of the most beautiful women in the world.

Here in Brooklyn, we had a large community of Mizrahim until the 1980s. Most are now in New Jersey, but Mansoura's Pastry and several synagouges are still active.