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Jewish agency to extend emergency aid to Ukraine's Jewish community
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Published: 23.02.14, 01:07
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1. The best aid package is...
manicdrummer ,   Haifa, Israel   (02.23.14)
...one-way tickets to Israel for all of them. Don't hang around where there is trouble.
2. Why do they stay in such hostile Khmelnytsky lands?
Steve Benassi ,   Silver Bay, MN USA   (02.23.14)
3. When are they going to do something for the Venezuelan Jews
Yosef ,   Dania   (02.23.14)
That is just a step behind the Ukrainians?
4. here is a thought
Dan ,   Rehovot   (02.23.14)
airlift them to Israel and settle them in the Galilee or Jordan Valley.
5. Safety? Security?
Hmm. ,   Chicago   (02.23.14)
aims to "ensure the safety and security of Ukraine's Jews." Unlikely to succeed. There is no security for Jews in the Ukraine, and there never has been.
6. Easy go, easy come
Hmm. ,   Chicago   (02.23.14)
"parliament's vote on Saturday to oust President Viktor Yanukovich amounted to the fall of a dictator." Not so fast. He may well turn up again, guns blazing, once the Olympic village in Sochi has emptied out.
7. Manicdrummer....just suppose gratis one-way tickets
Anthony Fallon ,   Manchester UK   (02.23.14)
were offered to Ukraine's ''200,000'' Jews, i reckon not that many would make the transition & move to Israel. My point is that JEWS ARE NOT A HOMOGENOUS GROUP. Most Jews in the Diasporo do not identify (or do not wish to identify) as Jewish, plus a sizeable chunk of the large Charedi denominations in Ukraine, are ideologically opposed to the modern state of Israel. There has not been significant Jewish emigrations from hotbeds of antisemitism like France, Sweden etc. The only way that a significant proportion of Ukraine's Jews would leave the country is if a right wing extremist party (similar to Jobbik in Hungary) get into power and implement compulsory registration of ''Jews'', like Jobbik recently advocated.
8. Jews that are delaying the return to Israel
Dror ,   Haifa, Israel   (02.23.14)
Some of you will be eventually making your way to Israel with only the shirts on your backs after having lost all of your posessions and buisnesses. Some of you will die in the diaspora, some will convert. Some will just kill time and die as the last Jews of their locales. This is a drawn out process. Hashem is now proving what His Will is towards the Jews of the diaspora. His patience has run dry with them. Now it is ugly and it will only get uglier. As long as the Jews that are destined to return to Israel delay their return, the world will become more and more chaotic. This is the Will of Hashem. There is a consensus amongst the mystics (the kabbalists) that this is His Will. Jews that refuse are going against His Will. They will lose a great deal and they will endure much suffering before they break. If they refuse to break they will be attacked, murdered, beaten, and many will die. Those that are adamant on staying in the diaspora will be clearly identified as EREV RAV. They will be seperated and forgotten as Jews. Good riddance to them..
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