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To: HeidiHi; A. Pole; MarMema; FormerLib; George W. Bush
it cannot be that while it lets in the very people from whom Jews have been fleeing

Fine, do not let in the communists...or is it Russians, Poles, others you blame directly as whole peoples...in which case that is blatent racist. Considering that Christianity also grow from Israel, Christians have all rights to visit or live in lands of our Messiah...or will you deny that to us?

43 posted on 08/04/2004 9:15:24 AM PDT by RussianConservative (Xristos: the Light of the World)
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To: RussianConservative

I posted this to another thread dealing with the same subject, so I thought I'd post it here to.

A European friend of mine who has traveled and studied the Soviet Union and Russia extensively recently sent an email to me. Here is an excerpt of his remarks:

"In Soviet era, that was even more bureaucratic, but today, it might be easier for some people to emigrate than to move from their home town to Moscow, if only they would get a visa from a foreign country. That is why Israel has been flooded by more and less genuinely Jewish Russian immigrants."

There is no doubt that many Russian Jews made Aliya for genuine reasons. However, many of the Jews who immigrated from Russia to Israel weren't even Jews at all. Still others, with a residual connection to their Jewish heritage, were not committed to Zionism or Israel. I know, because I interviewed many of them during my stay there. Plus, you can bet, the Russians were sure to mix-in plenty of FSB agents (to spy on Israel) for good measure. In short, many of the people we see going back to Russia were never committed to Eretz Israel (as the article makes abundantly clear) and therefore never belonged there in the first place IMHO.


83 posted on 10/10/2004 10:51:54 AM PDT by FearGodNotMen
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