Wednesday, January 06, 2010

Turning Their Backs On Bribes From Murderers

Yemeni Jews refuse to leave for Israel

"Jews in Yemen prefer to stay in the impoverished Arab nation rather than relocate to Israel amid mounting speculations that the US might launch a new war in the country. An official at the World's Jewish Congress Foundation, Moshe Nahum, said they have tried in vain in the past three decades to convince Yemeni Jews to move to Israel. He said the foundation has even dispatched teams from New York and London and promised money and benefit to lure the tiny community to migrate."

Iran's Jews reject cash offer to move to Israel

"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."

2 Comments:

Anonymous ilona@israel said...

i dont understand them. even jews from such countries as france, uk, usa, australia do alia to israel, as they realise that in their countries there are growth of anti-semitism and they leave their houses and works in oder to be part of jewish state.

7/1/10 4:48 AM  
Blogger nolocontendere said...

I would say probably two big reasons why jews remain where they are. That anti semitism plays no role where they live and that they've been integrated successfully for a very long time. As a matter of fact the jews in Iraq, pre israel, thought themselves arabs who happened to be jews.

Also, the repugnant politics of the zionist government do tend to turn people off.

7/1/10 5:55 AM  

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