tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12677825.post612618274156518806..comments2024-03-14T02:22:26.957+00:00Comments on Point of No Return: Jewish Refugees from Arab and Muslim Countries: Martin Gilbert's new book hits the bookshelvesUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger9125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12677825.post-60205098327069506442010-08-19T23:42:36.621+01:002010-08-19T23:42:36.621+01:00whoever wrote the review in the Economist is a bit...whoever wrote the review in the Economist is a bit of a jokester<br /><i>"is just uninterested in anything but what Jews experienced"</i><br />Gilbert is writing a book about Jews and gets blamed for not being interested enough in Christians or Muslims? Well yes, how dare he ;-)<br /><br />I dimly remember that there is a book on the history of the button, I sincerely hope its author will have given due weight to the zipper in the same volume. ;-(<br /><br />SilkeAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12677825.post-16254821837135411562010-08-19T21:45:17.051+01:002010-08-19T21:45:17.051+01:00Iran's Jews doing just fine:
http://www.opedn...Iran's Jews doing just fine:<br /><br />http://www.opednews.com/articles/25-000-Jews-live-in-Iran-by-Mike-Whitney-100817-972.htmlAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12677825.post-41501558471514588472010-08-19T21:43:01.666+01:002010-08-19T21:43:01.666+01:00The last of the "Arab Jews" in Yemen:
h...The last of the "Arab Jews" in Yemen:<br /><br />http://www.economist.com/node/16847296?story_id=16847296&fsrc=rssAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12677825.post-58735218915193585392010-08-19T21:24:08.553+01:002010-08-19T21:24:08.553+01:00http://www.economist.com/node/16847296?story_id=16...http://www.economist.com/node/16847296?story_id=16847296&fsrc=rss<br /><br />The Last of the Arab News<br /><br />bhAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12677825.post-8730214678506616552010-08-19T21:14:43.256+01:002010-08-19T21:14:43.256+01:00just making sure you don't miss this
http://ci...just making sure you don't miss this<br />http://cifwatch.com/2010/08/19/the-tragedy-of-iraqs-jews/<br /><br />SilkeAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12677825.post-3025866935259105432010-08-19T19:45:23.322+01:002010-08-19T19:45:23.322+01:00Gad Shimron was the other guy and thanks for the n...Gad Shimron was the other guy and thanks for the name, a really interesting sounding list of books he has. The thriller writer was again somebody else, never mind, but what a shame the BBC doesn't have all their names on its web-site.<br /><br />"it wasn't bad" - for me it was straight back to the good ol' times when Israelis had all that romantic dare devil feel for us<br />Can you imagine what a revelation Moshe Dayan was for a German girl in 1967? An obviously not broken but very strutting guy with an eye patch, short sleeves and well muscled arms - and he was a general ...<br />You youngsters don't know what you have missed <br />;-)))<br />- all that excitement of change and a better world just around the corner with evil now finally so well known, this time surely it would work and nothing of that old bad stuff would ever happen again - can you imagine that in 1967 when it was still illegal we girls decided it was OK that a gay colleague brought his partner to a party and when the straight guys started to protest we told them to leave it or leave the party - they relented and it became a really nice evening, the straight probably talking for the first time to the gay ones as if they were decent human beings - yes the whole bleeding heart thing once started as something very sweet and beneficial.<br /><br />Sorry for going on like that but listening to that Mossad-piece today and all the memories it brought got me all nostalgic.<br /><br />SilkeAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12677825.post-46936396737069799452010-08-19T19:13:24.043+01:002010-08-19T19:13:24.043+01:00Dear Silke
Ah yes, I listened to that programme, t...Dear Silke<br />Ah yes, I listened to that programme, thanks - and remember thinking it wasn't bad considering this is the BBC.<br />Gad Shimron wrote a book, 'Mossad Exodus' - could he be the writer you are thinking of?bataweenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15829104245735619972noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12677825.post-39447390170267412812010-08-19T18:59:11.759+01:002010-08-19T18:59:11.759+01:00bataween
OT (I've printed the piece and not ye...bataween<br />OT (I've printed the piece and not yet read it) but I think you will like that. The BBC has a piece on Mossad in which one agent describes the rescue of the Ethiopean Jews. <br /><br />In case you listen to it and catch the name of the Israeli thriller writer who is also interviewed in the piece I'd love to know. (Nothing like a good page turner to make me imbibe stuff;-)<br />Silke<br /><br />The Mossad or 'Institute of Special Tasks', is one of the most feared and fabled security services in the world.<br />http://www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/documentaries/2010/08/100805_the_mossad.shtmlAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12677825.post-58962930198021582912010-08-19T15:37:02.828+01:002010-08-19T15:37:02.828+01:00minimizing the role and weight of haj amin el-huss...minimizing the role and weight of haj amin el-husseini is one of Achcar's tricks in his apologetics for Arab nationalism. Propagandists write books all the time. Husseini was merely the top leader of the palestinian Arabs between the world wars.<br /><br />if I had world enough and time, as the poet said, I would go into this more thoroughly. But it is too hot in Jerusalem and I don't have the time.Eliyahu m'Tsiyonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07973268399414290195noreply@blogger.com