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Gaddafi calls for meeting with Libyan Jews in Rome
Menachem Ganz
Published: 08.06.09, 11:31
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1. What's Up Daffy Duck? Goin GaGa over Libyan Jews?
Zohan ,   Tel Aviv   (06.08.09)
I smell a rat here. I mean why so long, why now? and what the hell he wants.
2. very small comunity, during WW2 most
ghostq   (06.08.09)
of Lybia jews were sent to the death camps in Europ, after the war the few who survived did Alia to Israel, not worth web news space.
3. For Pete's sake!!!!
(06.08.09)
Gaddafi isn't going to beg and grovel to you. Take him up on the meeting date - one shabbat won't hurt.
4. Gaddafi calls for meeting...
Bruria ,   Haifa   (06.08.09)
It would be a great thing if he is sincere--but knowing his reputation he probably read some obsolete paper about the Jews being in the garment industry and is hoping to get some new dresses to wear. Somehow I just can't see sincerity in this guy.
5. Gaddafi's son is in a business Partnership with Rabin's son
Genuine Tosefta ,   Tveria   (06.08.09)
Their company is based in Switzerland and is going to build 30,000 residential units in Libya. I have personal knowledge of this as a service provider to the company. On a conference call conversation one of our associates asked Gaddafi's son if he will have any problems dealing with Israeli Jews. He answered that business is business and that he will take care of any official hurdles in Libya that may impact the project.
6. It could be worse
i ,   jerusalem   (06.08.09)
he could claim aliya rights. Rumor has it his mother was a kidnapped jewish child. That would make him ours.
7. this is about the palestinians not libiyan jews
zionist forever   (06.08.09)
Gaddafi knows he ends out paying anything it probably won't be much because of the conditions he will attach but in return he will say look I am willing to give jews back their property now Israel must show a similar gesture and return palestinian property to them which he knows isn't going to happen. Obama will certainly love the idea. Even if these talks go nowhere he can say look I tried to reach an agreement with the jews but Israel has refused to return the palestinians their property etc. Gaddafi has proposed political gimiks before when he called on Libiyan jews to return and for Israel to give the palestinians a right of return as well.
8. To Number 2
Ilan Mesika ,   London   (06.08.09)
Your comment is factually incorrect. My grandfather and many others were in work camps undertaking slave labour for the Germans but very few were deported to Europe and in fact the vast majority did survive. This is a very interesting part of histroy the same can be said of the Jews of Tunis.
9. GADAFFI IS THE CASTO OF THE MIDDLE EAST
ROLAND SEENER ,   LONDON ENGLAND   (06.08.09)
HE IS REVOLUTIONARY WITH HIS THOUGHTS,AND I THINK IS EXTENDING THE HND OF FRIENDSHIP WITH THESE "UNNECESSARY" OVERTURES TO THE FORMER JEWS OF LIBYA.IF LETTER WRITER NUMBER 5 IS CORRECT ,THIS IS A CONFERMATION, AND SHOULD BE PURSUED...THE OUTCOME?...NOTHING VENTURED,NOTHING GAINED !
10. To #3; Gaggafis come and go. Shabbat stays.
leo ,   USA   (06.08.09)
11. repentance then restitution for whom?
John ,   Boise, Idaho, USA   (06.08.09)
Anyone can read between the lines and discover Khadaddy's ultimate motive of gaining favor after recent speeches of reconcilitation
12. Jews on Saturday and 700 women on Friday
Enzo ,   London,UK   (06.08.09)
The meeting at the Auditorium on Friday with 700 (seven hundred) women could be moved to Saturday, Muhammar.
13. to #8 you r missing my point, muslem nation
ghostq   (06.08.09)
also took active part in the Natzi's war machin. only now they try to portray themselves as nice, they got short memory or believe in their own net of lies. the truth is muslems never liked jews.
14. Last Jews of Libya
Mort ,   New York, USA   (06.08.09)
Re Nos. 2 and 8, the history is covered in the film "The Last Jews of Libya" (www.lastjewsoflibya.com) and in a recent book "The Jews of Libya" (M. M. Roumani, Sussex Academic Press, 2008).
15. #2 30,000 Libyan Jews not worth space??
Liliane ,   Brighton, SX, UK   (06.08.09)
#2 There were 30,000 Libyan Jews in 1957. So according to you they are not worth the space??? Even one is worth it.
16. They should get compensation or their property back
Rami of Nazareth ,   Israel   (06.08.09)
17. Jews go back home, Palestinians go back home
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18. #3
David ,   USA, exile   (06.08.09)
Who do you think you are? It takes a lot of nerve to stand and declare that you are Eloheim! Shabbat belongs to HaShem! He has told us what to do on Shabbat and meeting with a terrorists thug is not on the list.
19. #17
David ,   USA, exile   (06.08.09)
Correct! Jews go back to Israel. Palestinians go back to Jordan. Then they both will be home.
20. to ghostq
ezra ,   canada   (06.08.09)
Advocating a point with historical mistakes does not deserve it. Lybian Jews suffered from german antisemitism through discrimination and labour camps but where not shipped to death camps in Europe because the cost of transport was to expensive... Lybian Jews suffered progroms with hundreds of casualties in the hand of the Arabs and were expelled from the country in the following years. They were about 30.000 Jews in Lybya at time of expulsion and their offspring in israel, Americas and Europe must now be twice that numerous. Theyr are worth web news space.
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