tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12677825.post117597021370337499..comments2024-03-14T02:22:26.957+00:00Comments on Point of No Return: Jewish Refugees from Arab and Muslim Countries: Yemenite Jews caught up in sectarian strifeUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12677825.post-1176202256454712592007-04-10T11:50:00.000+01:002007-04-10T11:50:00.000+01:00You are right about CSM, anon. But I do think that...You are right about CSM, anon. But I do think that the Jews still in Yemen were leading contented and largely peaceful lives until this episode. This whole sorry affair seems to show that there is no future for Jews in Yemen, even anti-Zionist ones, as they will always be useful scapegoats for some interest group or other.bataweenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15829104245735619972noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12677825.post-1176179762868844192007-04-10T05:36:00.000+01:002007-04-10T05:36:00.000+01:00It is typical of the Christian Science Monitor tha...It is typical of the Christian Science Monitor that it exploits the plight of persecuted Jews in order to besmirch Israel. For their journalist to uncritically report the obviously coerced anti-Israel comments of a man in fear of his life is an act of despicable collaboration with the persecutors. That newspaper is notorious for its calumnies against Zionism and for downplaying and sometimes justifying anti-Jewish crimes.<BR/><BR/>Yemen's Jews were rarely if ever allowed to live in peace, not since the advent of Islam when they were made "dhimmis" and stripped of many basic human rights.<BR/><BR/>The description of the events of 1948-9 by the word "riots" is a trivialization bordering on mendacity. What happened then was a massacre, in which untold numbers of Yemen's Jews perished. Many scores were murdered in Aden, and thousands were slaughtered in the countryside as they trekked from their remote villages to the JDC's transit camps. When not killing them, their Moslem neighbours stole their food, water, children and possessions, leaving them to die of hunger and thirst.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com