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bacasper
Joined: 26 Mar 2007
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 Posted: Fri Aug 14, 2009 7:04 pm Post subject: Last Jews flee Yemen |
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What is going on here?
Aug 14, 2009 0:42
Yemen's last Jews set to flee country
By HAVIV RETTIG GUR
Israeli sources confirmed on Thursday Yemeni media reports that the overwhelming majority of the final remnant of Yemen's ancient Jewish community, numbering some 250 people, are looking to leave the country due to persecution and violence.
"About 120 of the Yemeni Jews want to move to Israel, 100 want to move to the US" - where there is a small Yemenite Jewish community - "and between 20 and 30 want to stay," the source said, citing information obtained from the community.
Some of the Jews wishing to leave are unable to do so because they are having trouble selling their property, the source said.
Saba, Yemen's official state news agency, reported Wednesday on a "mini-exodus" of Jews from the country "triggered by alleged harassment" and "fear of persecution."
The article quoted Rabbi Yahya Yaish, chief rabbi of the Ridah and Amran districts, who said that "all Jews in the area are preparing to leave for Israel within the next [few] days."
Yaish is the brother of Moshe Yaish al-Nahari, a community leader who was murdered in December by a local man who demanded that he convert to Islam. Nahari's three daughters moved to Israel shortly after his murder, while his three sons made aliya in recent days with the help of the Jewish Agency, according to reports in the Yemeni media. His killer was sentenced to death in June.
According to Saba, Yaish warned that "harassment has been stepped up against Jews in the districts of Amran and Kharef, with some of the Jews killed and others kidnapped."
Violent attacks and persecution have been a regular experience of Yemen's tiny Jewish community in recent years, against the backdrop of tensions and an anti-government insurrection in the northwestern part of the country, in the province of Saada, where a Muslim religious minority affiliated with Shi'ite Islam has been clashing with government forces since 2004.
Most Yemeni Jews lived in nearby Amran province before fleeing either to protected compounds in the capital city of Sana'a or to Israel or the US. Those who remain offer easy targets for zealots. |
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cwflaneur
Joined: 04 Aug 2009
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| Posted: Fri Aug 14, 2009 10:00 pm Post subject: Re: Last Jews flee Yemen |
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| bacasper wrote: |
| What is going on here? |
Article seemed pretty clear. |
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some waygug-in
Joined: 25 Jan 2003
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| Posted: Sat Aug 15, 2009 3:37 am Post subject: |
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Nations are breaking and Israel's awakening,
the signs that the prophets fortold.
Gentile days numbered with sorrows encumbered,
return oh dispersed to the fold.
The day of redemption is near
men's hearts are failing for fear.
Be filled with the spirit, your lamps trimmed and clear,
look up, your redemption is near. |
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E_athlete
Joined: 09 Jun 2009
Location: Korea sparkling
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| Posted: Sat Aug 15, 2009 8:02 am Post subject: |
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| some waygug-in wrote: |
Nations are breaking and Israel's awakening,
the signs that the prophets fortold.
Gentile days numbered with sorrows encumbered,
return oh dispersed to the fold.
The day of redemption is near
men's hearts are failing for fear.
Be filled with the spirit, your lamps trimmed and clear,
look up, your redemption is near. |
When I stop to think I have the same job and salary as nuts like this I start to feel really depressed. |
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ED209
Joined: 17 Oct 2006
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| Posted: Sat Aug 15, 2009 8:08 am Post subject: |
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| some waygug-in wrote: |
Nations are breaking and Israel's awakening,
the signs that the prophets fortold.
Gentile days numbered with sorrows encumbered,
return oh dispersed to the fold.
The day of redemption is near
men's hearts are failing for fear.
Be filled with the spirit, your lamps trimmed and clear,
look up, your redemption is near. |
Again? |
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Sergio Stefanuto
Joined: 14 May 2009
Location: UK
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| Posted: Sat Aug 15, 2009 6:09 pm Post subject: Re: Last Jews flee Yemen |
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| bacasper wrote: |
| What is going on here? |
Just business as usual.
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Between 1949 and 1954 about 800,000 Jews were forced to flee from the Arab and Muslim lands where they had lived for hundreds and even thousands of years � from Iraq, Morocco, Tunisia, Jordan and Iran. These Jews were peaceful citizens and in no way a hostile population. Nonetheless, they were forced at gun-point to flee with nothing but the clothes on their backs. The only reason for their expulsion was revenge against the Jewish citizenry for the shame of the Arab defeat in their war of aggression.
Property and belongings of the Jewish refugees, confiscated by the Arab governments, has been conservatively estimated at about $2.5 billion in 1948 dollars
http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/Articles/The%20Big%20Arab%20Lie.htm |
Excellent paper, that.
I think the Israelis should've booted the Palestinians out of the West Bank, Jerusalem and Gaza in 1967 (and not having done so is one of the biggest mistakes of the 20th century).
But don't fall down agreeing. |
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cwflaneur
Joined: 04 Aug 2009
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| Posted: Sun Aug 16, 2009 10:16 pm Post subject: Re: Last Jews flee Yemen |
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| Sergio Stefanuto wrote: |
I think the Israelis should've booted the Palestinians out of the West Bank, Jerusalem and Gaza in 1967 (and not having done so is one of the biggest mistakes of the 20th century).
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Yes, maybe they should have forced thousands of Arabs out of the homes of their birth, just as had been done to the Jews themselves. Despite the implicit irony, maybe that would have been the right tactical move. Yet I think the lingering question would have remained "by what right?" and the only answer would have been the Bronze Age religious texts that said the place was theirs.
If we're going to go back and say "if only this or that", then clearly the worst mistake of the whole business was the founding of a Zionist state in '48 to begin with. That's as undeniable to me as the fact that it's there to stay now and that its welfare will continue to be endanged as long as Islamic and Jewish religious fundamentalism continue to exist. |
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cwflaneur
Joined: 04 Aug 2009
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| Posted: Tue Aug 18, 2009 3:41 pm Post subject: |
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| some waygug-in wrote: |
Nations are breaking and Israel's awakening,
the signs that the prophets fortold.
Gentile days numbered with sorrows encumbered,
return oh dispersed to the fold.
The day of redemption is near
men's hearts are failing for fear.
Be filled with the spirit, your lamps trimmed and clear,
look up, your redemption is near. |
Here's to Eve,
The mother of our race.
Who wore her leaves
In the proper place.
Here's to Adam,
The father of us all.
Who planted his root
When the leaves began to fall. |
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Enrico Palazzo
Mod Team
Joined: 11 Mar 2008
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| Posted: Wed Aug 19, 2009 5:50 am Post subject: |
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| E_athlete wrote: |
| some waygug-in wrote: |
Nations are breaking and Israel's awakening,
the signs that the prophets fortold.
Gentile days numbered with sorrows encumbered,
return oh dispersed to the fold.
The day of redemption is near
men's hearts are failing for fear.
Be filled with the spirit, your lamps trimmed and clear,
look up, your redemption is near. |
When I stop to think I have the same job and salary as nuts like this I start to feel really depressed. |
It is a violation of the terms of service to engage in ad-hominem attacks.
Stick to what you disagree with when it comes to other posters.
Thanks... |
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