I am sure there was some retaliation for the Muslim ethnic cleansing of 1948 that Israel has been accused of. But the majority emigrated to Israel because they wanted to. That was Israel's state policy to get every Jewish person to move to Israel.
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Day to Mark the Departure and Expulsion of Jews from the Arab Countries and Iran
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Background
The Knesset adopted the commemoration day into law on June 23, 2014.[2] November 30th was chosen due to its symbolic proximity to the United Nations Partition Plan for Palestine - adopted on November 29th, 1947 - after which many Jewish communities in Middle Eastern and North African countries started to experience pressure and hostility from their Arab and Persian neighbors that ultimately resulted in a large scale exodus of Jewish communities from these countries.[3][4] The law was sponsored by MK Shimon Ohayon of Yisrael Beiteinu.[5]
For many Mizrahi Jews in Israel it is considered to be a belated recognition of a collective trauma long ignored institutionally throughout the country’s history.[6][7][8][9]
Memorialization in Israel
On May 9, 2021, the first physical memorialization in Israel of the Departure and Expulsion of Jews from Arab lands and Iran was placed on the Sherover Promenade in Jerusalem.[10]
Jewish Departure and Expulsion Memorial from Arab Lands and Iran on the Sherover Promenade, Jerusalem
The text on the Memorial reads;
"With the birth of the State of Israel, over 850,000 Jews were forced from Arab Lands and Iran. The desperate refugees were welcomed by Israel.
By Act of the Knesset: Nov. 30, annually, is the Departure and Expulsion Memorial Day. Memorial donated by the Jewish American Society for Historic Preservation, With support from the World Sephardi Federation, City of Jerusalem and the Jerusalem Foundation"[11]
The sculpture is the interpretive work of Sam Philipe, a fifth generation Jerusalemite.[12][13]
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Show us the huge decline in numbers from North America or U.K. or Australia because of "Zionism" and a return to the homeland. If you can't then your claims are bogus.
If there isn't why not? It's because these places are tolerant towards Jews unlike the countries that xmontrealer listed.
Ok. I'll agree your post was not because of ignorance. It is because of your intolerance of Jews. Are you happy now?
p.s. The Jewish population has almost doubled in the U.S. since 1949/50 (and I suspect there was a huge increase between 1945 and then) from 4.5 million to 7.5 million as opposed to decreasing hundreds and thousands folds in the countries xmontrealer listed.
Why would that be. Why didn't aliyah make the Jewish population shrivel like it did in those other countries.
There is one and only one possible explanation, tolerance here and a lack thereof there. The Jews here (mostly) do not fear for their lives. But unfortunately because of hate spreaders and false narratives, it's getting worse.
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Basketcase said Israel was at war with Gaza about two weeks ago, well before this round of violence.
Get him to explain to you when he thinks the Gaza/Israel war started.
Otherwise, look at the Oct 4 storming of Al Aqsa as the start of this round of violence.
Oh, but you can't, you can't admit any wrongdoing by Israelis, can you?
I am sure North America had immigration post WW2. North America and Israel were the countries most Jews moved to post WW2. For a better life.
And am sure there was some retaliation after the 1948 ethnic cleansing allegations. But the majority wanted to move to more developed places or to their Jewish homeland.
And I have no intolerance of Jews. I come from a pro-Israel and pro-Jewish state. You seem overtly and unnecessarily worked up.
No, I have never said either of those two things.So it is Frank's tactic of gaslighting a discussion, where he surreptitiously calls every Israeli a terrorist, while throwing in the perfunctory, "Hamas is a terrorist group" statement, because that is undeniable.
The other day he did the same thing, where he said Zionists and Nazis were the same thing. I mean Nazis who sought to wipe out Jews from the planet were the same as people wanting to establish a Jewish state (even if I do not agree with the non-secular nature of it)?
That is gaslighting.
This is a balanced statement by the UN.
If you were truly balanced or unbiased you'd back a call for both sides to be investigated for 'terrorism', which is 'targeting of civilians'.
But you support terrorism by some and not others.
Don't mistaken war with massacre...Hamas didn't target military installations and out posts...they were out for blood...civilians or not....IDF don't target civilians....collateral damage is inevitable when your enemy uses civilians as human shields...Hamas are terrorists...NATO members said so...Biden said so... Trudeau said so....
I did. Read my posts. I called out both as racist and as violating each other's human rights as evidenced by the HRW article.
I was commenting on your argumentation style. You cannot compare Hamas to Zionists. That is not a valid comparison. Every Israeli or the majority of them is a Zionist. Every Palestinian is not a Hamas militant. Hamas is a faction. Zionism is an identity.
It is the same thing you were doing the other day calling Khalistanis Sikhs. Khalistanis are Sikhs. Sikhs are not Khalistanis.
Or your argument that Zionists and Nazis were the same, which is at the very least offensive.
Wrong twice.
Hamas targeted Israeli outposts along the prison walls, including the security towers.
Israel is targeting schools and apartments in Gaza.
Both sides have targeted civilians, which is the definition of terrorism.
They are both the same.
Amid Israeli attacks, Gaza schools no longer safe spaces
Residents across the Gaza Strip have sought shelter in UN-run schools. But schools too have been targeted by Israel.
Both Hamas and Israel are acting like terrorists so its fair to make that comparison on that level.
Sure, Hamas represents a religious subset of the indigenous population while the Israeli government represents a colonial settler, racist movement.
They are different that way, along with international support and funding.
For the Khalistani argument, that was in reference to your comments about Sikhs, where you specifically attacked all Sikhs, not just Khalistanis.
Zionism is still an element, there are numerous Jewish groups that are anti zionist. Its not the identity of the entire people. Nor is it even the identity of all Jewish Israelis. Read Haaretz or B'tselem reports. Hamas was the democratically elected government of Gaza, though they are as popular now as the Netanyahu government and Abbas' PA.
Leveling Gaza and obliterating Palestinians isn't going to solve the issue.
But for short term optics this is a war that the West can get behind and "win" on camera.
No coverage of Ukraine despite billions being sent into that Nazi hole... probably because we're failing miserably against Putin.
But for short term optics this is a war that the West can get behind and "win" on camera.
No coverage of Ukraine despite billions being sent into that Nazi hole... probably because we're failing miserably against Putin.
Please read my p.s. to my post.
Here it is:
p.s. The Jewish population has almost doubled in the U.S. since 1949/50 (and I suspect there was a huge increase between 1945 and then) from 4.5 million to 7.5 million as opposed to decreasing hundreds and thousands folds in the countries xmontrealer listed.
Why would that be. Why didn't aliyah make the Jewish population shrivel like it did in those other countries.
There is one and only one possible explanation, tolerance here and a lack thereof there. The Jews here (mostly) do not fear for their lives. But unfortunately because of hate spreaders and false narratives, it's getting worse.
Aliya is Aliya, and Jews (Zionists) in the U.S. would hold the same ideals as in other countries. Return to Israel.
You should substitute the word "developed" for "tolerant" places. Jews are safer in N. America than those other countries. That's why the number of Jews has nearly doubled, even with aliya.
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It’s far less confusing when you put
I will add you to my list of peaceful opposition
Hamas attacked Israel in this case, so clearly they are the ones in the wrong. Israel in this case is retaliating and in the process, what else are they supposed to do other than attack targets in Gaza? That is where the attacks are coming from! So in this case Israel is not behaving like terrorists. Are Israel's military actions violations of human rights? Sure. But it does not amount to terrorism.
You can criticize the Israeli government as being colonialist. But that is very different from calling them terrorists. Which one is it? Terrorists where they purposefully and gleefully target civilians? Or an expansionist regime that takes what is not theirs? I think it is the latter.
No I did not. I specifically called Sikhs brothers. And in my previous post that you are responding to, I said Khalistanis are Sikhs. Sikhs are not Khalistanis and in many other previous threads I have said that calling Sikhs Khalistanis is like saying all Muslims are terrorists.
I do not know, why you LIE in your posts. You don't misinterpret. You outright lie. This is very dishonest and scummy behaviour.
My criticism was on your comparison of Zionism to Nazism. One is a movement that sought to commit genocide against Jews. The other is a movement that seeks to establish a Jewish state. Comparing them is asinine to say the least. And am sure there are Jews who are not very nationalistic, but am sure even they would call BS on your statement calling Zionism and Nazism as being the same.
Hamas being democratically elected is irrelevant. They targeted and massacred civilians in Israel, which makes them a terrorist group. I feel like the Palestinians have no good people to elect so the Hamas gets elected. And they use their democratically elected status to commit terrorist crimes.
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Yeah that is what I don't agree with. He does not account for corrective action and extrapolates too much.
