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Jews who fled Arab lands now press their cause
SFgate.com ^
| March 28, 2004
| Jack Epstein
Posted on 03/28/2004 10:00:26 AM PST by Nachum
Edited on 04/13/2004 2:46:12 AM PDT by Jim Robinson.
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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.
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TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; Front Page News; Israel; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: arab; cause; fled; jews; lands; now; press; their; zionist
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posted on
03/28/2004 10:00:27 AM PST
by
Nachum
To: Nachum
I have a Jewish friend whose family is from Tripoli. He never told me why they came here...now I know.
To: Nachum
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.
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posted on
03/28/2004 10:28:03 AM PST
by
Bismarck
To: Modernman
The other "right of return." For a people who secretly run the world, they aren't doing a great job getting this message out.
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posted on
03/28/2004 10:39:27 AM PST
by
BroncosFan
("Friends help friends move. Real friends help you move bodies.")
To: Nachum
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.
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posted on
03/28/2004 11:04:54 AM PST
by
7MMmag
(just where ARE the harlem globetrotters when 'ya need 'em? those guys could beat anybody!)
To: MSCASEY
bump!!
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posted on
03/28/2004 11:06:02 AM PST
by
MSCASEY
(Our God is an Awesome God!)
To: Nachum; SJackson; yonif; Simcha7; American in Israel; spectacularbid2003; Binyamin; Taiwan Bocks; ..
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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03/28/2004 11:43:54 AM PST
by
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posted on
03/28/2004 12:06:21 PM PST
by
Alouette
(A nasty end, and I wish I needn't have seen it; but it's a good riddance.)
To: Nachum
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.
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posted on
03/28/2004 12:08:53 PM PST
by
fatidic
To: 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.
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.
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posted on
03/28/2004 12:21:04 PM PST
by
Lent
To: Nachum
"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.
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posted on
03/28/2004 2:43:17 PM PST
by
Imal
(The purpose of elevator music is to discourage people from loitering in elevators.)
To: Nachum
To: Alouette
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.
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posted on
03/28/2004 3:53:23 PM PST
by
XBob
To: Nachum
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!!!
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posted on
03/28/2004 4:01:10 PM PST
by
dennisw
(“We'll put a boot in your ass, it's the American way.” - Toby Keith)
To: dennisw
Kudos to Rick Santorum.
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posted on
03/28/2004 7:05:33 PM PST
by
Ciexyz
To: Lent
The whole of North Africa was Christian, with pockets of Jews, before Muhammed came along.
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posted on
03/28/2004 7:54:06 PM PST
by
Cicero
(Marcus Tullius)
To: Straight Vermonter
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.
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posted on
03/28/2004 8:09:27 PM PST
by
Alouette
(A nasty end, and I wish I needn't have seen it; but it's a good riddance.)
To: Nachum
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.
To: Lent
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.
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posted on
03/28/2004 8:42:50 PM PST
by
cookcounty
(John Flipflop Kerry ---the only man to have been on BOTH sides of 3 wars!)
To: Nachum
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.
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posted on
03/28/2004 10:18:38 PM PST
by
Clemenza
("Knowledge is Good" --- Emil Faber, Founder of Faber College)
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