04-26-2009, 10:27
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Yemeni Jewish community fighting for survival
This is one of those on-going trans-national issues which make the world so complex. They might want to be in touch with a good realtor soon.
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Yemeni Jewish community with deep roots fighting for survival
Hamza Hendawi, AP
KHARIF, Yemen — In this village in northern Yemen, where a kosher butcher slaughters chickens and the school bus carries young boys in side curls along a dirt track to their Hebrew studies, one of the oldest Jewish communities in the Arab world is fighting for its survival.
Yemen's Jews, here and elsewhere in the country, are thought to have roots dating back nearly 3,000 years to King Solomon. The community used to number 60,000 but shrank dramatically when most left for the newborn state of Israel.
Those remaining, variously estimated to number 250 to 400, are feeling new and sometimes violent pressure from Yemeni Muslims, lately inflamed by Israel's fierce offensive against Hamas militants in Gaza that cost over 1,000 Palestinian lives.
They face a Yemeni government that is ambivalent — publicly supportive but also lax in keeping its promises — in an Arab world where Islamic extremism and hostility to minorities are generally on the rise.
"There is hardly a mosque sermon that's free of bigotry. The government's own political rhetoric marginalizes the Jews, and civil society is too weak to protect them," says Mansour Hayel, a Muslim Yemeni and human rights activist who is an expert on Yemen's Jewry.
http://www.usatoday.com/news/religio...men-jews_N.htm
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04-26-2009, 12:05
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No, no.
Didn't they get the memo?
Racism is concentrated only in the US, Europe, and in Israel.
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05-31-2009, 11:40
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Wow, I didn't know what I didn't catch this before. I actually spent some time with the Jewish families in Yemen for Passover. Very very amazing people and very complicated history and story.
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05-31-2009, 11:57
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Richard
This is one of those on-going trans-national issues which make the world so complex. They might want to be in touch with a good realtor soon.
Richard's $.02
Yemeni Jewish community with deep roots fighting for survival
Hamza Hendawi, AP
KHARIF, Yemen — In this village in northern Yemen, where a kosher butcher slaughters chickens and the school bus carries young boys in side curls along a dirt track to their Hebrew studies, one of the oldest Jewish communities in the Arab world is fighting for its survival.
Yemen's Jews, here and elsewhere in the country, are thought to have roots dating back nearly 3,000 years to King Solomon. The community used to number 60,000 but shrank dramatically when most left for the newborn state of Israel.
Those remaining, variously estimated to number 250 to 400, are feeling new and sometimes violent pressure from Yemeni Muslims, lately inflamed by Israel's fierce offensive against Hamas militants in Gaza that cost over 1,000 Palestinian lives.
They face a Yemeni government that is ambivalent — publicly supportive but also lax in keeping its promises — in an Arab world where Islamic extremism and hostility to minorities are generally on the rise.
"There is hardly a mosque sermon that's free of bigotry. The government's own political rhetoric marginalizes the Jews, and civil society is too weak to protect them," says Mansour Hayel, a Muslim Yemeni and human rights activist who is an expert on Yemen's Jewry.
http://www.usatoday.com/news/religio...men-jews_N.htm
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They are going to be doing a whole lot more fighting now that every AK toting islamic yellow coward jihadist moron knows where to find them.
Great job USAToday!
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