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Spain approves Sephardic Jew citizenship plan
Associated Press
Published: 06.06.14, 18:39
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1. A TAD LATE IS IT NOT ?
CAPTAIN OBVIOUS ,   SAFED OBVIOUS   (06.06.14)
2. Spain approves Sephardic Jew citizenship plan
George Weiss ,   Teaneck, USA   (06.06.14)
They are about 500 years too late.
3. They want our taxes
Dave ,   Montreal, Canada   (06.06.14)
...saving face or correcting a historic wrong is secondary.
4. Dual citizenship Just.
Zechariah   (06.06.14)
5. To: Facebook Tagwoman
Sarah B ,   U.S.A. / Israel   (06.06.14)
Really? Only recently? A few weeks, perhaps? After how many years? Facebook commenter has it about right -- Spain's economy is circling the bowl. They're trying to attract Jews, who bring with them energy, creativity, intelligence and incredible ability. As far as I'm concerned, Spain can just wither away and die. There's a reason that we revile Spain, and NOTHING Spain can do will change those reasons or make them any more forgivable.
6. Start with a spanush apology for murdering,torturing & end
Moshe ,   Usa   (06.06.14)
with a reimbursement of all property losses that you spunish stole from our ancestors. Then maybe we will have some respect for you. In the meantime, I'm not rushing to speak spunish.
7. they want Jewish money
k ,   us   (06.07.14)
While it might be a nice gesture, I am sure they see there are alot of rich Jews in the world and they can sure help out their economy
8. Perhaps the prosperity and world power status of Spain will
Rivkah   (06.07.14)
return since it was lost after Spain expelled and robbed the Jews long ago. The Spanish Armada was destroyed by a storm in a war with England after the Jews were expelled. Britain lost its world power status after reniging on the Balfour Agreement to give the Jews a homeland similar in size to ancient Israel.
9. Just imagine!!!!!!!!
AVouskila ,   South America   (06.08.14)
We might call this new Spanish Law as a Sephardic "Law of Return". Unlike the way the Sephardic immigration, specifically the Moroccan Jewish Mass Immigration to the Newly Established was, lets say below the belt and other places, should we have had such a Spanish Law, and knowing what we know now by reading the media of the 50s and books written since then about the opposition to the Moroccan Jewish Immigration by Eshkol, Golda, Ben Gurion, some more, I think all the hundred of thousands of Moroccan Jews that went through Israel, would be just as happy to go to Spain, as the hundred of thousands of their brthren went to Canada, France, even Spain, South America, all over the places and off course USA, as the American had bases in Morocco where Jews spoke English and had close contact with Americans for a quite long while. You cannot return the clock back, but history will have to be written differently from now on. It is advisable for EVERY SEPHARDIC Israeli Jew to take on receiving the Spanish Passport: very useful.
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