Posted on 02/21/2011 9:34:47 PM PST by Nachum
Leader of diaspora group suspects alternative to Gaddafi may be worse.
The leader of a Jewish Libyan Diaspora group warned on Monday that the death toll in the North African country may be much higher than reported.
“I’m in touch with people in Benghazi especially, and the situation is worse than appears in the press and on TV,” Raphael Luzon, the chairman of the Jewish Libyan Diaspora in the UK, told The Jerusalem Post. “This is a big massacre and it’s even affected people who stayed home, who are now being hurt by use of heavy weapons.”
Luzon, who was born in Libya and fled with his family in 1967 after a pogrom, said a source at Benghazi’s hospital counted about 160 dead bodies over the past 24 hours. He said those were in addition to the 223 fatalities reported by Human Rights Watch between Friday, when riots broke out, and Sunday.
“I feel we are going toward a civil war with a lot of bloodshed,” Luzon said.
Members of the Jewish Libyan Diaspora around the world have been following news of the anti-government protests in Libya with rapt attention and mixed emotions.
During the 1930s, about 25,000 Jews lived in Libya, but their numbers dwindled dramatically due to persecution by Italy and Germany during World War II and a series of state-sponsored pogroms after Libya became independent in 1951. The last Jew immigrated to Italy several years ago.
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Deeply ambivalent? Isn’t that a bit like being extremely moderate, or passionately agnostic?
I fear that after Qaddafi, the Jews will be next. All it takes is a small but determined group of Jihadists. Now they don’t even have any fear of getting caught.
The remaining Jews should try to leave or at least lay low, not the time for interviews.
“The last Jew immigrated to Italy several years ago.”
You probably missed that line in the article.
One of the historical secrets the MSM doesn’t tell the public, is that nearly a million Jews fled to Israel in order to avoid persecution in Muslim nations after the 1948 creation of Israel. Yet not one Muslim nation could see it in their hearts to make room for Palestinian refugees who left Israel vowing to return as conquerors, only to have that threat wither to dust.
Those poor people have been left in refugee camps for over sixty years now, all because Muslims have no charity!
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