tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12677825.post3782545147618766842..comments2024-03-29T11:39:42.348+00:00Comments on Point of No Return: Jewish Refugees from Arab and Muslim Countries: Why Mizrahi Israel unnerves US Jews Unknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger7125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12677825.post-62362513887571488102017-05-13T20:14:32.570+01:002017-05-13T20:14:32.570+01:00off topic//
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https://www.wsj.com/articles/ch...off topic//<br />"<br />https://www.wsj.com/articles/christians-in-an-epochal-shift-are-leaving-the-middle-east-1494597848<br /><br />Christians, in an Epochal Shift, Are Leaving the Middle East<br /><br />The exodus raises prospect that sectarian Islamic strife could deepen<br /><br />By Maria Abi-Habib Updated May 12, 2017 10:41 a.m. ET<br />A man walks amid debris laying on the ground inside the Saint Elias church in the rebel-held area of Harasta, on the northeastern outskirts of the capital Damascus on November 13, 2016.<br />Sameer Al-Doumy/Agence France-Presse/Getty Images<br /><br />By Maria Abi-Habib<br />TANTA, Egypt—<i><b>Like the Jews before them</b></i>, Christians are fleeing the Middle East, emptying what was once one of the world’s most-diverse regions of its ancient religions.<br />They’re being driven away not only by Islamic State, but by governments the U.S. counts as allies in the fight against extremism."<br /><br />What is interesting here is that this Wall Street Journal reporter, with a Arabic yet Christian name, mentions that the Jews were driven out of the Arab Muslim countries before the Christians. This is a true but rare observation.Eliyahu m'Tsiyonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07973268399414290195noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12677825.post-44474799669304602442017-05-13T03:58:50.625+01:002017-05-13T03:58:50.625+01:00Very interesting observations. ... Wondering how t...Very interesting observations. ... Wondering how this might tie in to the situations on American college campuses of ant-Israel sentiment. That the average student with this thinking is of Ashkenazi background, feels unconnected to Israel or the middle east.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12677825.post-45304563785733982282017-05-12T17:33:47.234+01:002017-05-12T17:33:47.234+01:00I married into a Mizrachi family. I find it a reli...I married into a Mizrachi family. I find it a relief from the neurosis of the Ashkenazi American Jews.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11016014425516252663noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12677825.post-92151184817033814132017-05-12T17:14:43.036+01:002017-05-12T17:14:43.036+01:00Positing this as an Ashkenazi/Mizrahi divide ignor...Positing this as an Ashkenazi/Mizrahi divide ignores that there is a history behind such behaviour, which Hannah Arendt identified and diagnosed as "The exceptional Jew" syndrome, when she was researching antisemitism in German society at the onset of the nineteenth century. More than any other Jew, she understood profoundly, on the intellectual and emotional levels, the meaning, the appeal, and pervasiveness, the harm, of this construct. <br /><br /> "In the minds of the privileged Jews... the virtuous - who had more than a certain income - were rewarded with human rights, and the unworthy - living in mass concentration in the eastern provinces - were punished as pariahs. Since that time it has become a mark of assimilated Jews to be unable to distinguish between friend and enemy, between compliment and insult, and to feel flattered when an antisemite assures them that he does not mean them, that they, are exceptions - exceptional Jews. The events of recent years have proved that the "excepted Jew" is more the Jew than the exception; no Jew feels quite happy any more about being assured that he is an exception. " (Privileged Jews Author(s): Hannah Arendt Source: Jewish Social Studies, Vol. 8, No. 1 (Jan., 1946)<br /><br />Clearly she was wrong in her conclusion, since American Jews appear all too happy to conform to the image of "the exceptional Jew". There will come a moment when they will be faced with a crucial decision: to align with the Leftist antisemites of BLM and BDS or oppose the current trend by standing up to these nefarious movements. <br /><br />Make no mistake about it: These so called "liberal" Jews do not impress me one little bit. Their behaviour is heir to the concept of the "parvenu":<br /><br />"Parvenus are the heroes and victims of modernity who have already (but not quite) arrived at the destination of their aspired societal belonging" (another Arendt's merciless diagnosis).<br /><br />In such a precarious place and without the self-confidence of their Jewish identity, they are all the more vulnerable to join ideas that will mark them out as exceptionally universalist and altruistic. Such ideas do not go together with the sunburnt skins of Israeli Jews, particularly not the Mizrahi Jews who are in no danger of losing their love for their country and their traditional Judaism for the sake of being hailed as exceptionally moral by immoral and cynical leftists.The Contentious Centristhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07370528817706233156noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12677825.post-44414981221065638382017-05-12T16:13:25.577+01:002017-05-12T16:13:25.577+01:00My two Ashkenazi, US-born teenage kids (who have t...My two Ashkenazi, US-born teenage kids (who have two American parents but spent most of their life here) are, on a basic cultural level so completely different than their modern Orthodox counterparts in the US, I would not even know where to begin...in fact, I think that my son would have an easier time hanging out with Israeli Druze kids than he would with his counterparts in Teaneck. Find me a single American modern Orthodox kid whose idea of the ultimate vacation is camping on the beach for 3 days with 100 shekels in his pocket...and few cans of tuna and some toilet paper so that he can make what people call her "smoked tuna." Maxrhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00110364053852545194noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12677825.post-18062122147578775722017-05-12T13:38:12.114+01:002017-05-12T13:38:12.114+01:0093% of Israelis come from backgrounds & cultur...93% of Israelis come from backgrounds & cultures that either never knew, or outright rejected, Democracy, Enlightenment, etc. 93%. They view American liberalism, which has substituted for Judaism, as bizarre at best and a luxury best left in Great Neck and Beverly Hills.gpickholzhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03653057102943557696noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12677825.post-10562451183784533422017-05-12T13:13:30.095+01:002017-05-12T13:13:30.095+01:00I wonder what Sigal Samuel is going to say to this...I wonder what Sigal Samuel is going to say to this one....Yoramhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01981974769624218330noreply@blogger.com