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Politics : Israel to U.S. : Now Deal with Syria and Iran -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: GUSTAVE JAEGER who wrote (10894)	5/10/2006 9:26:02 AM
From: sea_urchin	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 22250

Gus > America's got two PETS: the British poodle and the Russian chow.... Very amusing! But I think that Russian chow isn't so well behaved. Look how it bit Khodorkovsky, put him in jail and took away his Lukoil. Now that wasn't a nice thing to happen to a nice Jewish boy, was it? Re antiSemitism in Russia: jcpa.org >>In the recent past [pre-1999], antisemitism appeared to play a negligible role in the decision of Jews to emigrate from Russia. Economic opportunities, concern for the future of one's children, and family reunification were the primary motivating factors as tabulated by the Jewish Agency for Israel in periodic surveys of Jews leaving the post-Soviet states for Israel. However, beginning in late 1998, that is, following the ruble devaluation and associated economic collapse in Russia, antisemitism emerged in these periodic Jewish Agency surveys of Israel-bound post-Soviet Jews as an important reason for their departure. The number of Jewish immigrants to Israel from Russia has more than doubled on an annual basis since the August 1998 events. Recent instability in Russia suggests caution in predicting the future of Russian Jewry. Nonetheless, few circumstances in contemporary Russia provide a foundation for optimism. Russian Jewry has been in demographic decline throughout the postwar era due to aging and high mortality, low fertility, assimilation, and emigration. As has become clear, antisemitism generates even greater emigration.<<