If you want to know how Jews would be treated in the so-called “binational” state of Isratine, take a look at how Yemeni Jews are being treated today by their Muslim overlords:
Jewish residents of the Saada region in northern Yemen have received explicit threats to leave the area within 10 days from followers of radical cleric Hussein Badr Eddin al Houthi, according to the Saudi newspaper Al-Watan.
Following complaints from the threatened Jews, a meeting of the local authorities and the district’s sheikhs was held.
The Jews demanded they be treated as equal Yemenite citizens, and at the end of the meeting a religious verdict determining the relationship between them and the Muslims was given.
This verdict, which was also signed by Jews, did not guarantee them immunity from threats.
Yemenite defense forces have gone to great lengths to try and convince the Jews to stay in their towns. These attempts, however, have failed and the authorities were forced to provide financial aid for the Jews so they would be able to rent accomodation in safer areas.
So the big question is: Who wants to kill the few remaining Jews of Yemen?
“Al-Qaeda, I don’t know where they came from. Now they (the Jews) have seen these letters and are frightened, but what can they do? They have taken all they own, taken the kids, women and all, now they are at hotels. They are afraid, but said that for now they don’t want to immigrate.”
But it isn’t Al Qaeda threatening them. It’s the local “youths.”
Yihya Yousef Mousa, one of the Jews who fled their homes, said that the believers’ youth organization’s chief Yihya el Hadir told him that he and his friends did not want to see even one Jew in Saada.
According to Mousa, although they returned to their homes last Wednesday, the youth organization’s members continued to harass them, threaten them with kidnappings and steal their money and cars. “Where do they want us to go?” asked Mousa.
“The second threat was received after we returned home following official instructions. Four masked people approached us and told us that if we are still here by Friday, harm will come to us. The sheikhs of the area are the last ones who can do anything for us.”
The Yemeni Jewish community has been there for nearly two thousand years, according to some, and for two and a half millennia, according to others. But Islam, that religion of tolerance and peace, has apparently convinced some of its adherents that Jews cannot live in peace with Muslims.
Imagine that.
There were 55,000 Jews in Yemen prior to the establishment of Israel. Today, the number is in the hundreds. Soon, it may be zero.
If leftists were paying attention we might use one of their favorite denunciatory words to accuratly describe the modern Muslim attitude, exemplified here, towards Jews, and towards other religious minorities for that matter (although the leftists generally use it as a general swearword, and not accuratly, just like they use “fascist”). Can you say “Apartheid” boys and girls? I knew you could.
And this is why there is an Israel and this is why in my opinion any Jew who is serious about being a Jew is a Zionist. The remaining Yemenite Jews have someplace to go. Before 1948 they would have been at the mercy of the rest of the world and we know what that means.
Just so Alex. Since I was 10 years old I’ve considered Zionism a no brainer. The most persecuted people in the world need a refuge, and where else but in their ancestral homeland?
“The most persecuted people in the world need a refuge, and where else but in their ancestral homeland?”
Actually, any place that lets Jews see to their own defense. It’s not wise to put all your eggs in one basket, especially with the goyim on the verge of granting avowed Jew-killers access to nuclear weapons.
Unfortunately, there are only two nations that guarantee Jews the right to defend themselves from attack: Israel and the US. Australia might be a third option, as while there is no law ensuring that right, there is a lot of tradition in that direction, and the fight to eliminate the principle of self-defense isn’t lost there yet.
Tatterdemalion,
And not coincidentally the USA is the other main target in the crosshairs of the antisemites. Anti-Americanism is the other side of the coin of antisemitism today. Scratch one, you will find the other, and that includes Americans who loathe their own country.
I never said all Jews had to make aliyah, and agree that it would be unwise for all to do so. But the USA was not open to Jewish refugees in the 1930s because of the 1924 Immigration Act, so they could not come here. When you look at Israel today, or remember the significant role of Europe’s Jews in modern science, business, technology, and culture, and think what possibilities and potentialities were lost with their murder, what a boon the immigration of hundreds of thousands of refugee Jews to the USA would have been; what a splendid opportunity for enriching the country was lost.
I’m not saying the US is a better place for Jewish self defense than Israel. There’s just the part written in the US Constitution that says everyone has the right to bear arms, and that’s better than Jews living anywhere else in the world have it, except in Israel, where they enjoy the protection of one of the world’s best armies.