Guess I won't have to go and visit there. In any case, I already saw the movie! By the way, N.B., your great-great-great grandmother kept kosher! Halal is not the same!

Really interesting country to visit. Was there for a week in Jan. Chefchuan (spelling?) is a great place to visit - all you do is smoke hash and chill (if thats your thing of course). Fez was fun...the guy at the Jewish cemetary was drunk when we went there, which was rather amusing. He was speaking to us in broken hebrew, but was sluring his words, so it wasnt easy to understand. The only downside about the country was the people. Too many hustlers that dont leave you alone and dont take "no" for answer. Felt like smacking some of them. I dont think i met one genuinely nice person there (maybe the hash dealer). Its all an act for them to get your money one way or another.

No 2. Why are Israelis any different than Moroccans?

As a recent immigrant from Morocco, I have to comment on this article. Nostalgia is very nice - we all try to remember our roots, our food, people we knew. No one can deny that Morocco is a beautiful, interesting, & often charming place. But we should never forget why almost all the Jews left. Anti-semitism is pervasive in all sections of society. It is not a free & democratic country. A few weeks ago, my friend who is a Moroccan Muslim tried to come visit me here in Israel. Our Interior Ministry gave him a visa with no problem. Actually, they were wonderful & very understanding. However, when my friend left Casablanca he was detained by Moroccan police, interrogated for two days, his papers confiscated, he was hit & slapped around, threatened with prison if he tried to leave the country, he had to bribe the police, he was put on a train to his home town, police were sent to his home, he was insulted & called a "bad Muslim" for wanting to visit Israel. So evidently, it's OK for Israelis to visit Morocco & spend money but a Moroccan becomes a "bad Muslim" for trying to visit Israel. Think about that before you make any travel plans - they don't deserve one shekel of your tourist money.

Israel is colonial entity built on the destruction of other nation ... Don't u see why is he considered bad arab or muslim or human ..?!

People like you mak me wanna puke. You deligitimitze Israel's right to exist while turning a blind eye to the Arabc countries blatant bigotry. Did you ever stop to think that maybe this family would not have had to do a 'roots' tour if they had not been kicked out by the Arabs?

You wanna know how they are different? Israelis don't pretend to be polite and nice to tourists...they are rude period.

Has anybody learned that anything about morroco beside that he didn t enjoy it, and why bother going because it is like ashdod or bat yam. Why bother going to Israel? I can go to morroco, it is cheaper and people are nicer.

I dont understand why all jews should be collected from all over the world to live in one place???? why dont they stay in their original countries? they become like a tree that is planted in a foriegn land!!! my garnd grand grand father might be a jew but this doesnt mean I must be Israeli..after all I am an Arab no matter what my religion is!!so if the writer is Moroccan , then why should he live in the occupied land and leave his orginal land?????

Perhaps you should take a trip to Israel, where a large percentage of its population originally came from Arab countries, and talk to some of the Jews who fled to Israel at the point of a gun. My husband's family had lived in Iraq long before the advent of Islam, but they left there and went to Israel, not because they were ardent Zionists, but because remaining in Iraq was becoming a life-threatening proposition.

Noora, There are a few reasons why Jews from around the world have gone to Israel. Here are some: 1: They were expelled and kicked out from their original country and HAD to go to Israel. Maybe you know, maybe you don't, but there are many hundreds of thousands of Jewish refugees from Arab countries after Israel was founded. 2: Some people go for religious reasons. Israel is not just "some land" that was there for Jews. It is our holiest land and none other in the world compares. If you read our holy book, the Torah, you will see how Jerusalem and the land of Israel is repeatedly mentioned and how many Jewish prayers command us not to forget Jerusalem and Israel --- and one day return after 2000 years. That day is now here. Just by asking your question, I can see you are at least curious. If you want to talk about it more, or have more questions, I would be more than happy to have an open, honest chat with you --- without any hate, propaganda or anything like that. My e-mail address is here if you want to e-mail me. I hope I've helped you understand.

You are good,humorous,riveting and pacy. Says goodbye to the two sleeping models in his bed????why in heavens name didn't you take them with you. I too have these dreams,but in mine there are 3 models.

I had a morroccan girlfriend,and she was exquisite,only problem was, she was very possessive,after being threathened with castration a few times and having to sleep with one eye open. I decided to scoot. A bird in hand, is worth two hands in a bush.

I can understand why you are confused -- your logic is sound, but your facts are wrong. In Israel, we are indeed living in our original country. You say you are Arab no matter what your religion. And, indeed, we Jews are Jews, no matter whether we change our religion. The propaganda in twentieth-century Arab world is that Jews are a "religion", not a people (i.e. shaab). Can you understand why, for us, this is a racist assertion? Imagine we spend our time explain to you that your people or nation does not exist. Perhaps it is time that Arabs stop telling us that we do not exist, either. In Hebrew the expression is "3am yehudi" (3am=shaab). The anti-Zionist movement has gone so far as to try to deny the existence of this people altogether. But that expression, which the Jewish people has always used, is alraedy two thousand years old. It is not some Arab League or racist anti-Zionist movement which will decide in the twentieth century that it, in fact, no longer exists. Of, if you prefer English, we Jews have long described ourselves as a diaspora. That means something quite different than a religion!

Morocco is not an arab country and has never been. The Istiqlal pan-arabist party and its arabist acolytes within the Makhzen(predominantly of Fassi origin) and the French arabophile colonial administration pushed Morocco into the Arab League. Morocco is Amazigh (Berber), African and welcomes back its Judaic community. Arabo-islamic ideology is lethal to humanity as such our israeli friends of Morocco and North African origin ought to reassess and revisit the History the country (ies) of their ancestors. Knowledge of their past will ascertain our future. Arabo-islamism with its culture of hatred and arrogance towards nations tant stand against assimilation into their Umma and their Holy language(arabic) will not change if contribute in comforting history and facts about past realities about injustice and oppression within the laws of 'dhimma'. Berber 'Azref' canons were were not discriminatory towards the Jews. Their applicability were universal within the Amazigh (Berber) speaking domain until the arabists aided by French military power stripped the Berbers of their corpus of laws. Please, refrain from promoting arabisme. The so-called moroccan arabic is not understood by middle eastern arabs. The vernacular is a coine fo Tamazight(berber),andalucian and arabic....

I can see that you are trying to rewrite and change the history of Morocco, Well, as a Moroccan muslim, I can tell you that I have never felt any animosity towards any of our jewish countrymen. Matter of fact that is the common feelings among all Moroccans. So let's be clear here, all the Moroccan jews have as much right in Morocco as any other ethnic groups living in Morocco. YOU ARE WELCOME ANYTIME, ANYWHERE. Morocco is your country too.