tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12677825.post3548923022244900652..comments2024-03-29T11:39:42.348+00:00Comments on Point of No Return: Jewish Refugees from Arab and Muslim Countries: Moroccan King who signed anti-Jewish decrees honoured Unknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12677825.post-16816444189716718542015-12-25T14:23:51.475+00:002015-12-25T14:23:51.475+00:00The vast majority of Moroccan Jewish community who...The vast majority of Moroccan Jewish community who made Alya still believe that the king M5 did protect them from the Nazi led Vichy regime. This position stems from the fact that they survived the anti-jewish decrees and roundups and large number of them made it right time to migrate (flee) with the help and push of several international Jewish organizations. The timing of the Moroccan exodus is also crucial in understanding this position. Leaving during Vichy time and just after 1948 creation of Israel looks pretty much a salvation from a political view point (surviving genocide) and religious view point (re-connecting with Haeretz). For too many uneducated jews, the words of M5 (not his deeds) ring a bell of Lord Protector (Sorry for Oliver Cromwell pun). <br /><br />In sum, yes, M5 did say that Jewish Moroccans were first and foremost Moroccans citizens and that they were his subjects and to whom protection should be extended. Why should it be extended, I thought it was given by citizenship. However, words mean nothing when it comes to the Arab-Nazi nexus of intended genocidal policies. It is deeds and actions that count.(Sorry I do not mean to assume the role of deciding who and who should not be among the Yadvashem list of the righteous among the nations)..<br /><br />The fact that M5 advisors had their field days despite the obvious fact that the Germans never occupied Morocco or Algeria for that matter, should at least raise doubt about the Monarchy true intent of protecting its Jewish subjects. The fact that many Moroccan as well as Algerian Jews died and suffer in the same fashion as their Ashkenazi counterparts. And we all know the countless other Moroccan and Algerian Jews who were caught in France during the terrible German purges in occupied as well as the unoccupied France which ended up in the death camps of Eastern Europe. The M5 administration found it easy in rounding up people that could get their hand on (all of them men of working age) to built the German planned the trans-saharian railway, which ended up creating (according to reliable sources)about thirty labor camps. The most notorious in Morocco was that of Bouarfa. I visited the site in 1998. Many Jewish young men perished under extreme conditions(see Robert Setloff, book and excellent documentary on the subject). I guess the desert environment required new methods of torture and slow death.<br /><br />If the current Moroccan monarchy plays the ritual commemoration of M5's help of "his" Jewish subjects for the mediatized symbolic rapprochement, that's fine with me. But it is only symbolic, it means something on the surface only. In July 2015, a Moroccan website using the protocols of Elders of Zion forgery made a Youtube demonizing the Rothchilds and Israel for all the current problems in the Middle East and the world due to their control of everything. I read later on that the Moroccan authorities believe that the website was from an other Arab country and not Morocco. <br /><br />I gave up on a "genuine" rapprochement a long time ago. Symbolic rapprochement who can be against it? <br /> Sammishnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12677825.post-19588358552462961792015-12-24T01:35:07.605+00:002015-12-24T01:35:07.605+00:00Surrounded by a group of Judeophobic advisers like...<i>Surrounded by a group of Judeophobic advisers like the antisemite al-Mokri, it was probably remarkable that the King did not support Vichy more enthusiastically.</i><br /><br />This is a weak argument, if it is meant as one. Everything indicates they didn't see things the same way.<br /><br />El Mokri essentially served the French Resident General. He was already there when Mohammed V was crowned Sultan. He had no problem switching allegeance to Mohammed V's rival Arafa, whom the French crowned as Sultan as soon as they sent Mohammed V to exile in Corsica in 1953.<br /><br />Just to give an idea how the royal family felt about El Mokri, with the independence all his assets were nationalised and nothing was left to his heirs.<br /><br />More telling is the fact that his palace in Rabat, Dar El Mokri, was turned by Hassan II to an infamous torture prison for political prisoners. Abraham Serfaty spent time there. <br /><br />Syvianoreply@blogger.com