My understanding - is that in most times and places in the Arab world, Jews were treated differently, along with members of most other countries / religions - but overall were relatively OK - much better than in Europe. When the State of Israel was founded all hell broke loose in the Arab world and THEN jews in those places had to run for their lives. Now - if they could have just swapped places with the Arabs who were running out of Israel everyone would be settled and happy now...

and so are all the aliases she picks. whether pretending to be a self hating jew outraged at israel's self defense measures etc so if you see a hateful, anti israel posting from LONDON, be aware it is Ms. Prescott concealing her identity...she does this since she has failed to garner enough israel haters to back her up i suppose.

You are a Jew? Many times I asked myself how people like you can sleep at night! We have 1 .000.000 Muslims (pals) living in Israel and they are not being killed because we hate Muslims. Why can a Jew not live in Gaza or west bank? And why do they (pals) have to fight dirty like they do? You live in a coutry full of hate against Jews and is killing people in Iraq and you have something to say to us?? Go back to you muslim at night and let him poison you brain some more 'Dear'

If either Asheri or Shalit come to harm I hope Olmert gets the sense to finally give the Palestinian terrorists a lesson they will not easily forget. Anything less and he has to GO!

You simply don't understand that those 'children' are being kept alive in an Israeli prison. Let go and they will be brainwashed even further and told to sign up to the Suicide Bomber's summer camp. And, the cycle continues. They are being fed and watered and they have a bed to sleep in, that's actually more than anyone else in Gaza right now.

No because the agency said so, for example, in Iraq in 1941 during the farhud many Jews were hanged by the goverment of Rash Ali al Kailani because they were Jewish, and their property stolen, soldiers rampaged and massacred Jews for fun, the same happened in many other places, like Libya, Egypt, Syria, in Morroco where my parents come from there was always violence, pogroms, pillaging, etc, Morroco forbade Jews from leaving to Israel in case you didnt know, it wasnt just like "Hey lets take a plane to Israel because the agency said so", we came to Israel with nothing, everything was nationalised and stolen by the goverment, more like refugees than immigrants.

For those who keep asking what he was doing in the West Bank - it says he was taken from French Hill in Jerusalem - also to get to the dead sea you need to drive down hill from J'salem through the 'west bank' main roads in this area are and have been quite safe until now.