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To: Thomas M. who wrote (10868)	1/12/2002 4:02:43 PM
From: goldsnow	Respond to of 23908

The last Jews who wanted to leave Syria departed with the chief rabbi in October 1994. Prior to 1947, there were some 30,000 Jews made up of three distinct communities, each with its own traditions: the Kurdish-speaking Jews of Kamishli, the Jews of Aleppo with roots in Spain, and the original eastern Jews of Damascus, called Must'arab. Today only a tiny remnant of these communities remains. The Jewish presence in Syria dates back to biblical times and is intertwined with the history of Jews in neighboring Eretz Israel. With the advent of Christianity, restrictions were imposed on the community. The Arab conquest in 636 A.D, however, greatly improved the lot of the Jews. Unrest in neighboring Iraq in the 10th century resulted in Jewish migration to Syria and brought about a boom in commerce, banking, and crafts. During the reign of the Fatimids, the Jew Menashe Ibrahim El-Kazzaz ran the Syrian administration, and he granted Jews positions in the government. Syrian Jewry supported the aspirations of the Arab nationalists and Zionism, and Syrian Jews believed that the two parties could be reconciled and that the conflict in Palestine could be resolved. However, following Syrian independence from France in 1946, attacks against Jews and their property increased, culminating in the pogroms of 1947, which left all shops and synagogues in Aleppo in ruins. Thousands of Jews fled the country, and their homes and property were taken over by the local Muslims. hsje.org

To: Thomas M. who wrote (10868)	1/12/2002 4:09:00 PM
From: goldsnow	Respond to of 23908

There will be no time to go to the Long Island or mercy.... Kosovars went to Macedonia, and Albania...(before some to Long Island..Jews can't lose...Arabs went to Jordan, Lebanon (Egypt and Syria)-clever?-historic fact! More on Clever... masada2000.org It really DOES take a Jewish brain to come up with THIS brilliant idea. First you must defend your Nation against an attack by the combined armies of Egypt, Syria and Jordan. After scoring a stunning victory and FINALLY regaining control of the Old City of Jerusalem, including the Temple Mount and its Western (Wailing) Wall... not to mention East Jerusalem, ALL of Judea/Samaria (the so-called "West Bank")... you laid the foundation for a monstrous betrayal of the Jewish People. The defeated Palestinian Arabs were all set to move out across the Jordan River into the make-believe Arab Palestinian country, Jordan. So what did you do? To prove to the world that Jews are a "Light Unto All Nations," you told the fleeing Arabs to stay put! This was the beginning of a humiliating Jewish policy that stunned no one more than the Moslems who could not believe such a manifestation of Jewish madness they had just witnessed!