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Yemen to build ghetto for Jews
Smadar Peri
Published: 26.12.08, 09:53
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1. To all Satmars, Please read...
Moshe   (12.26.08)
What a Wonderful way to live in a Ghetto. Nuff said!!! To the 10 Neturei Karta members from Monsey, NY need not apply.
2. Building ghettos is real progress.
Terry ,   Eilat, Israel   (12.26.08)
Astounding the rapid progress in the Arab world. They will get to the Middle-Ages in no time at this rate. I come from an Arab country & I'm old enough to remember the old Jewish quarters in various cities. Of course, by my time, the ghetto was no longer compulsory - only poverty kept Jews living in the unbelievable squalor of these areas. Over time, the ''mellah'' emptied out as Jews left for Israel. But, before 1912, when the French colonized Morocco, the ghetto was compulsory except for a very few wealthy families. It was locked at night like the prison it was. It was unbelievably over-crowded, delapidated, unsanitary, filthy dirty, & had a stench that would turn the strongest stomach. This story will go un-reported in the Western media. The myth of Jewish/Arab coexistence before 1948 will be repeated as usual. The hundreds of thousands of Jews expelled from Arab countries remains a largely untold story. Today's politically correct babble is that only Arabs can claim ''suffering'' at the hands of Jewish oppressors.
3. AL QAEDA IS IN YEMEN, BIG TIME, ATTACKING JEWS
ED ,   USA   (12.26.08)
SHORT OF ALYA, (WHICH THEY REFUSE) PERHAPS THIS IS THE BEST THING FOR THEM. THE YEMENI PRESIDENT's LIFE IS PROBABLY AT RISK AS WELL, IT's NOT AS IF HE IS TAKING THE CHEAP WAY OUT, I THINK HE IS ACTUALLY MAKING AN ATTEMPT TO SAVE THESE WONDERFUL, ANCIENT PEOPLE, PART OF THE LIFE AND SOUL OF THE COUNTRY. THOSE YEMENIS WHO ARE MUSLIM AND STILL RESPECT THEIR ELDERS (THEIR JEWS) HAVE MY RESPECT HERE.
4. BRING 'EM ALL HOME. NOW!!!!!
Ben Avraham ,   Tel Aviv   (12.26.08)
5. Murderer is "Mentally Unfit"
NYC Girl   (12.26.08)
While that may be the case, what's the defense for those others who are threatening to kill Jews? They can't all be crazy, can they? Maybe they should consider the possibility they're being driven to insanity by their "peaceful" religion.
6. Git them outta there
Paul ,   Jerusalem, Israel   (12.26.08)
Give them out of that Graveyard of Islamic filth, and breeding grounds for warriors of Satan.
7. Ed No.3 - Brilliant, original idea: The Jew-rassic Park!
Saul ,   Barcelona   (12.26.08)
A choice you present - either Jews emigrate, live in a ghetto "for their own protection", or get murdered - is quite an original one, indeed. Now, here is something we never heard before. And to think about the risks the good Yemeni president is taking on our behalf! Not a "cheap way out", no sir, and certainly much better than such convoluted esoteric notions, as equal effective police protection for all its citizens. This particular member of the "wonderful ancient people", the living fossils that we are, remains quite underwhelmed by the efforts of "those Yemenis who are Muslim and still respect their elders (their Jews)". For starters, I would like to see at least one of those Muslims raise a hand. Just one more thought to leave you with. You might be interested to learn that "do-gooder" Nazis in Germany organized a Jewish History Museum, filled with items confiscated during pogroms and prison camp deportations, in order to preserve the memory of "those wonderful ancient people, part of life and soul of the country" for after they are fully exterminated. In Southern Morocco, you can still buy quaint souvenirs of their "wonderful ancient people...", such as entry doors from abandoned Jewish homes. To be an ethnographic museum exhibit, that is, indeed, the peak of aspirations for the Jewish people, the endangered species that we are. With a little help from our "friends", Jew-rassic Park, here we come!
8. satmar? at least they're informed
huvy ,   new york, usa   (12.26.08)
Everyone comments w/out doing homework. the sana'a plan is a good one -- if it were more immediate -- to move them immediately to safety. However, the president is "building" these homes, which mean the Jews can be killed during the months of construction. "get em out of there" is not a simple proposition. If I told you that Satmar understands that there are two-wive families, who if they relocate will have to divorce each other and who might not want to do so, they are respecting this ancient community's needs and NOT YOU. also, if folks who are still there have siblings who were kidnapped and are stuck in moslem homes and want to stay and not abandon them, who is being mindful of their needs -- you or satmar. if you realized that many folks will not be allowed out (any "abandoned" woman or child) and if the community leaves en masse they must leave some vulnerable behind -- who is worrying about them -- you or Satmar. Who sent them money to be able to continue to thrive and survive. You or Satmar. Don't you just love bashing Satmar. Pray you never need them.
9. Let me get this streight
Muhammad El- Quassar ,   Nezereth   (12.26.08)
The Yemen gov' is trying to defend their jews from the hatred that israel has created and they are being condamned by the media as antisemites? It's just impossible to please you is it? Even an effort to help is inturpeted as antisemitic act.
10. mentally unfit .
jerusalem   (12.26.08)
hey, if it works in Isael, it works for any country else. I wonder if in the future that they would name a street after him in commemoration.
11. Jew-Race-ic Park
Nora ,   Tel Aviv   (12.26.08)
7# With your permission, I would like to contribute to your excellent "Jewrassic Park" comment concerning the new ghetto in Yemen. Mine would be Jew-Race-ic Park.
12. #9
Israel Israeli ,   Tel Aviv   (12.26.08)
You must be one of the few Christians still in Nazareth since you are unfamiliar with the teachings of the Quran, at least as interpreted by the Arabs. Please read the Hamas charter and you will see that it is a religious obligation to exterminate the Jews.
13. sound nothign like a ghetto... more like settlement..
Rami of Nazareth ,   Israel   (12.26.08)
Obviously, the government is trying to help it's jewish citizens.... no need to the inciting title...
14. #9 you are so brilliant
Isac ,   Florida   (12.26.08)
By what you are saying, that any Jew living anywhere in the world should be held responsible what the Israeli Government does. Now that I call brilliant. No, you are such a moron! Maybe Israel should "protect" Arabs in Israeli cities and establish "Arab Only" sectors. Wouldn't you love that?
15. #2 Terry...pity you can't understand Gaza (end)
Edithann ,   USA   (12.26.08)
16. Ummm...Time to get out?
Shimon ,   Cincinnati, USA   (12.26.08)
Or wait until the savages slaughter you. I'd be getting that "Visa to anywhere"!!!
17. concentration camp ?
Mark Watkins ,   East Bernstadt   (12.26.08)
Have we not learned enough about History to know G-ds people are under seige , Hatred of His chosen people will not stop here , but rest assured The Great Nation will remain , Israel will never be removed from it's rightful Homeland , Bless Israel and Pray for the peace of Jerusalem !!!
18. So #9, if Hamas kills Jews, we can kill Saudi Muslims?
'nuffsenough ,   USA   (12.26.08)
With your logic, every time Hamas or Islamic Jihad blows up a bus or pizza parlor, we can strafe a Saudi village, or a Pakistani market? Right? After all, if YEMENI Jews can be targeted for "Israeli actions" we should be able to target ONE BILLION Muslims, starting with you.
19. To Rami #13
Jake   (12.26.08)
Sending the Jews to live in a "secured residential compound" , for their own protection of course, and then sending the man who murdered one of their number for a "mental checkup" to see if he is fit to stand trial, indicate something is rotten in Yemen.
20. Delusion on a national level
Ben ,   Monroe USA   (12.26.08)
So another concentration camp is now in the building stage. That seems to be Yemen's answer to murder. Protect by isolation?? Strangely familiar is it not?? The arab world backed Hitler and the nazi desire to kill all Jews. Noticed only Islamics back such action as "protection". Protection for whom? Once again, the Jew is blamed for what the murderer did.
21. Time to come Home....
Hadassah ,   Near Jerusalem   (12.26.08)
22. #15
Mizrahi Jew   (12.26.08)
What on earth does Terry's post here have to do with Gaza?? Just because you lost the mandate and got beaten by Irgun Zvai Leumi does not mean you have to be a two year old throwing a temper tantrum. Secondly, What makes a European decendant like yourself more knowledgeable about Gazans than someone like myself or Terry who lived in the middle east/north africa before your peoples even knew about a G-d??? here's an idea go fix all the mess you created in India, China, and South Africa before you pick on our country. Then again, it is easier to transfer blame to the Jews fopr your own crimes and that trick has been pulled for over 2000 years. TATA (blech!!)
23. To nr 9 - Leave Israel immediatley you foreigner...
Alexander ,   Herzliya, Israel   (12.26.08)
...and seek a mental clinic. If Arabs and Muslims hate Jews for no reason other than Jews being Jews and wanting the same national rights like all others, we have supposedly created the hatred against us? In that case, I can say that people that hate Arabs cannot be held responsible - it is the actions of Arabs that cause non Arabs to hate Arabs, and believe me - most Americans, Israelis/Jews and Europeans do indeed hate Arabs. So basically it is you fault Muhammed that I hate you.
24. #8 the same satmar who kidnap???
Mizrahi Jew   (12.26.08)
Speaking of kidnapping... your Satmar friends willing to return kidnapped Yemenite Jewish childern??? Perhaps your excuse is "they got a better life than they would ever have with poor Yemenite parents in Israel" Too bad Begin wasn't the first PM, he'd never allow this disgusting behaviour of the Satmar and their secular collaborators to happen.
25. #18 'nuffsenough
Terry ,   Chicago, IL   (12.26.08)
Are you just incapable of reaching a sane conclusion? I mean, you're either incredibly slow, or incredibly deceitful. All #9 was saying was that these compounds are built to PROTECT the foreigners [Jews] in Yemen (much like what the compounds in Saudi Arabia and in the outskirts of LA are for), and yet the media has labeled these housing units "ghettos". What gives? Also, just a small note: Israel is doing MUCH, MUCH worse to the Gazan people. Can someone then please remind me why, exactly, this story is appalling? Because to me, Ynet's Talkbackers have blatant double standards.
26. I have a real solution
Gee ,   Zikron Yaakov   (12.26.08)
How about letting the Jews of Yemen have weapons? Otherwise locking them up in a Ghetto is just another way of imprisoning people for the crime of being Jewish. Or better yet, let them leave.
27. Yemen creating another Gaza
Hinda ,   SF Bay Area   (12.26.08)
Oh well -- Rami (#13) is this how you all treat the dhimmis'? Yemeni Jews were very prosperous there until someone decided to really push Arafat's version of Islam and hence Israel had to airlift most for safety reasons. Where are the Christians that use to be plentiful there too? Gone. Where's the zorastrians? Gone. Gee Rami - why don't you go and become another true Muslim?
28. #9 - Muhammed What size is your bomb Belt?
Hinda ,   SF Bay area   (12.26.08)
How is it trying to protect when they released the mass murderer? Oh wait - he murdered a Jew not another life hating Muslim. There is a difference. And a father of a huge family. Did you clap and sing Praise to Allah? So let me know what size your bomb belt is so I can get one for you -- may you rot in jannah
29. #13, Rami, would you like same 'help' by Israelis?
AK   (12.26.08)
How would you like Israeli Arabs living in a segregated, 'protected' communities with a protecting little fence around it? I can only imagine the international howl of outrage.
30. Edithann , we understand gaza, it is you who don't.
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