tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12677825.post4777358980636273802..comments2024-03-14T02:22:26.957+00:00Comments on Point of No Return: Jewish Refugees from Arab and Muslim Countries: Calling all Maserati Jews!Unknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12677825.post-22069600959217196972014-10-01T08:09:54.006+01:002014-10-01T08:09:54.006+01:00I disagree, Davsil! The article also says that a q...I disagree, Davsil! The article also says that a question put to the Scottish govt minister at a previous meeting on Jewish refugees from Arab lands disturbed the SPSC sufficiently to make them want to put on this event. So it's never a complete waste of time to remind them of the facts.bataweenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15829104245735619972noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12677825.post-17125125667528840172014-10-01T02:48:05.402+01:002014-10-01T02:48:05.402+01:00Toward the end of the article, you had mentioned t...Toward the end of the article, you had mentioned that the "Maserati" Jews attend the SPSC conference and remind the attendees about the farhud and dhimmi. My experience in talking with anti-Semites is that they don't care about facts. The only thing they care about is hating Jews and Israel and nothing in the world could change their minds. Any proud Jew attending the conference is just wasting their time.by Davsilhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01422042823291325964noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12677825.post-25493770617177878942014-10-01T00:05:07.813+01:002014-10-01T00:05:07.813+01:00If people want to know about the CIA involvement w...If people want to know about the CIA involvement with Nasser, one of the places to start is the book "Spies in the Promised Land" by Michael Bar Zohar.Eliyahu m'Tsiyonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07973268399414290195noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12677825.post-50994905021922508932014-09-30T23:00:18.065+01:002014-09-30T23:00:18.065+01:00The 1954 Lavon Affair also known as Operation Suza...The 1954 Lavon Affair also known as Operation Suzannah was a botched Israeli attempt to stop the British from withdrawing from Egypt - the bombings were pretty feeble, did little damage and caused no casualties. The conflation of Jews and Zionists had begun well before the Lavon affair so one can't really blame the Affair for aggravating the situation of Egyptian Jews in the eyes of the regime, although it did not help. In 1956 Nasser's nationalisation of the Suez canal etc was aimed at all foreign interests, not just the Jews.bataweenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15829104245735619972noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12677825.post-10749978489976748742014-09-30T22:32:22.475+01:002014-09-30T22:32:22.475+01:00it seems that SPSC has only some lightweight &quo...it seems that SPSC has only some lightweight "authorities" in their support. Not even Tom Segev is with them on this issue. Marion Woolfson does not sound like the sharpest pencil in the box either. Given Iraq's brutal history towards non-Muslim peoples, Assyrians and Jews, as well as toward Muslim Kurds, and now the brutality of Iraqi Sunni and Shiite Arabs against each other, it sounds rather perverse to go looking after Zionist culprits in the Jewish flight from Iraq.<br /><br />In Egypt, pogroms took place against Jews already in 1945, instigated/perpetrated by the Muslim Brotherhood. Again, were not the pogroms in 1945 & 1948 enough to explain the Jewish flight from there? <br /><br />Anyhow, as far as I know, there was a small group of Egyptian Jews spying for Israel, who were mistakenly sent to plant some bombs. But these bombs were placed not in Jewish locations like synagogues or Jewish schools, etc, AFAIK. They were placed in a movie theater and in a USIA library [like the American Culture Center in Jerusalem today]. Moreover, as bombs go these were pretty weak. So the purpose was not to scare Egyptian Jews into leaving. Rather, the purpose was to discredit Egypt, to make Egypt look bad to the Americans, since Israel knew already that the CIA had helped Nasser's "Free Officers" take over Egypt. Well, it didn't work since the CIA was intent on working with Nasser in any case and even sent him some experts in psychological warfare to help him consolidate his regime, influence other Arab countries and defame Israel. The Israeli plan [part of the Lavon Affair] was rather stupid but it was not aimed against Egyptian Jews to scare them into leaving.Eliyahu m'Tsiyonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07973268399414290195noreply@blogger.com