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Big_Bird
Joined: 31 Jan 2003
Location: Sometimes here sometimes there...
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 Posted: Thu Jul 12, 2007 11:12 pm Post subject: Iran's Jews reject cash offer to move to Israel |
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Iran's Jews reject cash offer to move to Israel
� Expats offer families �30,000 to emigrate
� Our identity is not for sale, say community leaders
Iran's Jews have given the country a loyalty pledge in the face of cash offers aimed at encouraging them to move to Israel, the arch-enemy of its Islamic rulers.
The incentives - ranging from �5,000 a person to �30,000 for families - were offered from a special fund established by wealthy expatriate Jews in an effort to prompt a mass migration to Israel from among Iran's 25,000-strong Jewish community. The offers were made with Israel's official blessing and were additional to the usual state packages it provides to Jews emigrating from the diaspora.
However, the Society of Iranian Jews dismissed them as "immature political enticements" and said their national identity was not for sale.
"The identity of Iranian Jews is not tradeable for any amount of money," the society said in a statement. "Iranian Jews are among the most ancient Iranians. Iran's Jews love their Iranian identity and their culture, so threats and this immature political enticement will not achieve their aim of wiping out the identity of Iranian Jews."
The Israeli newspaper Ma'ariv reported that the incentives had been doubled after earlier offers of �2,500 a head failed to attract any Iranian Jews to leave for Israel.
Iran's sole Jewish MP, Morris Motamed, said the offers were insulting and put the country's Jews under pressure to prove their loyalty. |
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I wonder how many Iranians know about this? I once ended up in a conversation with an Iranian student, who expressed utter disbelief when I mentioned that Iran had an ancient Jewish community. |
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Joo Rip Gwa Rhhee
Joined: 25 May 2003
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| Posted: Thu Jul 12, 2007 11:39 pm Post subject: |
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Wonder what the Iran government would do to them if they took the money.  |
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jkelly80
Joined: 13 Jun 2007
Location: you boys like mexico?
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| Posted: Fri Jul 13, 2007 9:32 pm Post subject: |
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| Joo Rip Gwa Rhhee wrote: |
| Wonder what the Iran government would do to them if they took the money. |
They'd rebuild the Caliphate on their Scythian bones. |
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cerulean808
Joined: 14 Mar 2006
Location: Seoul
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| Posted: Fri Jul 13, 2007 9:50 pm Post subject: |
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Roo
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| Wonder what the Iran government would do to them if they took the money. |
What they've obviously been doing up until now probably, not much.
As opposed to the fiction of jew hating Persian nazis your always trying to pass off. 
Remember last year your journalist friend whose shoddy anti Iranian piece about anti semitism forced a conservative paper into a humiliating retraction of the article? Ha ha. |
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Joo Rip Gwa Rhhee
Joined: 25 May 2003
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| Posted: Fri Jul 13, 2007 11:28 pm Post subject: |
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[quote="cerulean808"]Roo
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What they've obviously been doing up until now probably, not much. |
Or maybe they would hang them?
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| In May, Jewish businessman Ruhollah Kakhodah-Zadeh was arrested and later hanged in prison. His crime was never declared in public and any legal proceedings |
http://www.hrw.org/worldreport99/mideast/iran.html
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| Human Rights Watch reported the death in May 1998 of Jewish businessman. Ruhollah Kakhodah-Zadeh, who was hanged in prison without a public charge or. legal proceeding. Reports indicate that Kakhodah-Zadeh may have been killed for assisting jews to emigrate. |
http://www.foreignaffairs.house.gov/archives/107/74066f.pdf
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Iran's Jewish population has dwindled from about 80,000 at the time of the 1979 Islamic revolution but remains the largest of any country in the Middle East apart from Israel. Jews have lived in Iran since at least 700BC.
Hostility between Iran's government and Israel means Iranian Jews are often subject to official mistrust and scrutiny. |
In other words - most Iranian jews left and they are often subject to official mistrust and scrutiny.
You didn't read the whole article did you?
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| As opposed to the fiction of jew hating Persian nazis your always trying to pass off. |
"Persians?" No>.
However if someone is a follower of Khomeni that means that they are a Klansman. Those who really follow Khomeni -what is on their mind anyway.
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| Four years later, the regime did its best to instate policies and practices hostile to religious minorities. Water fountains and toilets at my high school were segregated, some marked with signs that read �For Muslims Only.� But by and large, Iranians were not receptive to such bigotry. We crisscrossed among the stalls until the signs became meaningless. |
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/09/02/opinion/02hakakian.html?ex=1184558400&en=aae4ab19b4dec726&ei=5070
Iran also blew up the Jewish community center not in Israel but in Argentina.
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| Remember last year your journalist friend whose shoddy anti Iranian piece about anti semitism forced a conservative paper into a humiliating retraction of the article? Ha ha. |
better than your left wing fascist buddy pilger who supports the insurgents. I got him did't I ?
And while this is a little off topic here is a special gift for you and your buddy Pilger about those who you apologize for:
Islamic judges in Iran have set the precedent that the rape of a Mandaean woman can be regarded as an act of 'purification,' and as such, violators receive impunity. In Iran this defence has been used to acquit men of rapes on Mandaean girls as young as 8 years old (ibid.).
http://www.unhcr.org/cgi-bin/texis/vtx/print?tbl=RSDCOI&id=41501c2123
so what do you have to say?
At any rate followers of Khomeni are fascist bigots.
and there you go apologizing for fascism - again. Tisk, Tisk. |
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Julius
Joined: 27 Jul 2006
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Its a bit like esl lifers in Korea that never leave.
ie..it ain't that great living there, but old habits die hard. |
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crusher_of_heads
Joined: 23 Feb 2007
Location: kimbop and kimchi for kimberly!!!!
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| Posted: Sat Jul 14, 2007 11:09 am Post subject: |
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| Joo Rip Gwa Rhhee wrote: |
| Wonder what the Iran government would do to them if they took the money. |
It's not nice when you ask those questions.
Ask yourself-what would Jack Layton do? |
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igotthisguitar
Joined: 08 Apr 2003
Location: South Korea (Permanent Vacation)
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Israel has long used this tactic i.e. CASH for relocation to an illegal & illegitimate 60 yr. old middle-eastern state.
If that doesn't work state-sponsored Israeli terrorists' policy have even killed Jews living outside of Israel in order to try & frighten them into being coralled like cattle back to the fairy-tale land of Zion
Last edited by igotthisguitar on Mon Jul 16, 2007 9:03 pm; edited 1 time in total |
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R. S. Refugee
Joined: 29 Sep 2004
Location: Shangra La, ROK
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| Posted: Mon Jul 16, 2007 8:51 pm Post subject: |
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Roo
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| Wonder what the Iran government would do to them if they took the money. |
What they've obviously been doing up until now probably, not much.
As opposed to the fiction of jew hating Persian nazis your always trying to pass off.
Remember last year your journalist friend whose shoddy anti Iranian piece about anti semitism forced a conservative paper into a humiliating retraction of the article? Ha ha. |
Now, now cerrie. Remember, this is Be-Kind-to-Long-Long-Long-Long-Winded-Schizophrenics-Week.   |
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Joo Rip Gwa Rhhee
Joined: 25 May 2003
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