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Originally Posted by Tribesman
I could have sworn that the US, France and South America were the primary destinations for the former middle eastern populations, with the exception of the Morrocans and Iraqi in the 1950s who mainly went to Israel.
Did they?
CAPS LOCK strikes again.
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oh wow! capslock strikes again! that's big of you to don the mantle of patroller of proper form in internet discussion. I used limited uppercase for emphasis.
what's your justification for your excessive and childish use of emoticons, that renders that such a superior form of polite discussion and allows you to stand on the giddy heights and pass disdain on someone who may press the shift button for the occasional word?
anyway, it's true many jews also settled in france. South America i know less about. Argentina took in a large number of ashkenazi just before ww2, but that's different.
around the time of the 6-day war, jews in several arab countries had their citizenships revoked, and for other reasons life became difficult in those countries. Israel was prepared to settle them all within her borders and give them citizenship.
you may contrast this with the response to Palestinians arriving as refugees in neighbouring arab countries.
One might be led to think there was some overarching policy behind these differing experiences.