Sunday, August 06, 2006

Indigenous Middle Eastern Jews condemn Israeli aggression | World War 4 Report


Not all that surprising, when you realize that Jews lived in peace with Christians and Muslims, before the state of Israel existed.

I do not support religious states in general, so why should I support a Jewish state?

Indigenous Middle Eastern Jews condemn Israeli aggression | World War 4 Report:

Indigenous Middle Eastern Jewry, from Lebanon, Morocco, and Iran, have issued recent condemnations of the Israeli assaults on Lebanon and Palestine.

The first here is from the Jews of Lebanon website. Lebanese Jewry goes back to 1000 B.C., and did not empty out in 1948, as many Middle Eastern Jewish populations did, most emigrating to Israel. The bulk of Lebanese Jewry left during the Lebanese civil wars from 1975-92. There are some 100 members of the community remaining today.

According to Ed Corrigan in the Journal of the Middle East Policy Council, Winter 1990-91, Number 35, Beirut Jewry had close ties with the Palestinian community:

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