(With thanks: anonymous)
There are 10,000 Afghan Jews in Israel, Brooklyn and Bangkok (Bangkok?) but Zablon Simantov prefers to be the last Jew in Afghanistan. A journalist from The New York Times is the latest to do a piece - video clip - on this bizarre tourist attraction. Simantov shows him round what is left of the synagogue in Flower St after it was ransacked by the Taliban.
Simantov has nothing good to say about the 'donkey' Taliban. They offered to pay him $50,000 if he converted to Islam, but Simantov jokes he offered them $80,000 to convert to Judaism! No Jews will return to Afghanistan while 'there is no proper government' (Obama please note). Even Simantov's skull cap is a provocation to the jihadi groups who terrorise the population.
The NY Times does not answer the question why Simantov left his family in Israel to return to the hellhole ironically named Flower Street, but you can bet a bottle of whiskey that it pays better.
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