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Old April 21st, 2021 #101
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Israeli envoy joins Arab ambassadors in planting tree at UAE Embassy in Washington


APRIL 21, 2021 11:46 AM



WASHINGTON (JTA) — Israel’s ambassador to the United States and the United Nations joined a number of his Arab counterparts in planting an olive tree at the United Arab Emirates Embassy, spotlighting environmental cooperation as part of the recent normalization of ties between Israel and several Arab countries.
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Israel’s ambassador to the United States and to the United Nations, Gilad Erdan, said he had raised regional environmental cooperation with John Kerry, the Biden administration’s climate czar who for decades has also been deeply invested in Israeli-Arab peacemaking. Kerry is a former secretary of state.
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Also present at the event were diplomats from Morocco and Bahrain, countries that achieved normalization agreements with Israel last year under the Trump administration-brokered Abraham Accords, as well as diplomats from Egypt and Jordan, which have longstanding peace agreements with Israel.
https://www.jta.org/quick-reads/isra...-in-washington
 
Old April 23rd, 2021 #102
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Israel and Bahrain hail ‘world’s first’ deal for mutual Covid-19 vaccine passport scheme allowing quarantine-free travel


22 Apr, 2021 20:46



A new bilateral agreement has been reached between Bahrain and Israel to mutually recognize each other’s Covid-19 vaccine documentation, the countries’ foreign ministries have announced.

Under the deal, dubbed the “first of its kind”, travelers from either state who have received a recognized vaccine against Covid-19 will be exempt from quarantine upon their arrival.

The agreement covers vaccination certificates and Israel’s so-called “green pass,” which allows those who have been immunized to visit restaurants, gyms and other public places.

The mutually-accepted Covid vaccine documentation will be completely digital, using QR codes on mobile phones, which will be scanned at the border, according to NPR.
https://www.rt.com/news/521859-israe...cine-passport/

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ArchStantonToo 21 hours ago
Good for them... two countries I will never visit even if paid to do so.
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bobmyx 23 hours ago
2 places to avoid
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Brantley Foster 23 hours ago
If I end up in Occupied Palestine or a shell of a country like Bharain. It will be to change the Leadership and landscape.
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LonDubh 23 hours ago
Palestinians seem to be excluded from this Freedom of Travel scheme
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CMEequalsGW 22 hours ago
Palestinians are excluded from everything except genocide by the invaders of their land.
 
Old April 23rd, 2021 #103
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Arab traitors, cucks, sellouts who prostitute themselves to the jews.


https://www.jta.org/quick-reads/isra...-in-washington
First time I ever saw a jew holding a shovel!!
 
Old April 24th, 2021 #104
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First time I ever saw a jew holding a shovel!!


I was thinking the same thing.
 
Old June 29th, 2021 #105
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Israeli FM tells Arabs ‘WE’RE HERE TO STAY’ at embassy opening in UAE


29 Jun, 2021 22:50



Israeli Foreign Minister Yair Lapid told his Arab neighbors that Israel is “here to stay,” and urged former enemies to “talk to us” at the inauguration of his country’s embassy in the United Arab Emirates.

“Israel wants peace with its neighbors, with all its neighbors,” Lapid said during a ribbon-cutting ceremony at Israel’s new embassy in Abu Dhabi. “We aren't going anywhere. The Middle East is our home.”

“We’re here to stay. We call on all the countries of the region to recognize that and to come to talk to us,” he added.
https://www.rt.com/news/527939-israe...ssy-uae-lapid/

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shylockracy1 1 hour ago
Birds of a feather. Both UEA and the Rothschild neocolony in Palestine are abortions of terrorist Ziocorporate globalist and British imperial powerholders' schemes. And it's got nothing to do with "peace" but everything to do with the Ziocorporate world "order".
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Betrayal of the Century!
No wonder why ISIS does not operate in these puppet gulf states!
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UAE, Saudi, Bahrain, ..., are zio and US puppets. People who live in these countries have no dignity, honour and decency.
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Mobsters at work!
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They said the same to the Palestinians
 
Old July 27th, 2021 #106
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The brilliant Swedish-based, Moroccan-born anti-zionist Ahmed Rami has written about the nefarious jewish influence in Morocco in his excellent Swedish-language autobiography Ett liv för frihet ("A life for freedom"). In the book he stated that the country's king Hassan II was a jew-puppet, and that he had participated in the 1972 Moroccan coup attempt which sought to overthrow him. Unfortunately, the coup failed, so Rami sought and obtained political asylum in Sweden in 1973:


https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ahmed_Rami_(writer)

And yes, folks, Rami was right about Hassan II being a jew-puppet. For example, one of the king's close advisers (read: handlers) was the very influential jew André Azoulay:


https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/André_Azoulay

And look at Wikipedia's list of famous Moroccan jews:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Morocc..._Moroccan_Jews

Is it any wonder that the country's government is so pro-jewish?


https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Israel–Morocco_relations

This relationship was secret because the crooked jew-lackey Hassan II knew very well that the Arab/Muslim population despises the genocidal bandit state of Pissrael.
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First commercial direct flights from Israel land in Morocco


JULY 26, 2021 1:10 PM



Israeli tourists receive a rose and a welcome beverage upon arrival at Marrakech-Menara International Airport after taking the first commercial flight between Morocco and Israel, on July 25, 2021. (Fadel Senna/AFP via Getty Images)

(JTA) — Two Israeli airlines have started what looks like a beautiful friendship with Morocco.

Israir and El Al flights from Tel Aviv landed in Marrakesh on Sunday, Agence France Presse reported. The debut flights to Morocco are an outcome of the normalization agreements between Israel and four Arab states.

Israir is planning three flights a week to Marrakesh, the agency quoted the airline’s officials as saying, and El Al five flights a week, to Marrakesh and Casablanca.

Israelis, many of Moroccan descent, have routinely traveled to Morocco since the relaxation of restrictions in the 1990s, but via third countries. There have been a handful of direct flights having to do with affairs of state.
https://www.jta.org/quick-reads/firs...and-in-morocco
 
Old August 3rd, 2021 #107
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Azerbaijan opens trade office in Tel Aviv in preparation for future opening of embassy


AUGUST 2, 2021 1:35 PM



(JTA) — Azerbaijan has opened its first diplomatic office in Israel, three decades after the countries initiated diplomatic relations.

Azerbaijan’s trade office in Tel Aviv, opened on Thursday, is a stepping stone to the central Asian Muslim country opening an embassy in Israel, according to the Jerusalem Post. The countries began their diplomatic relations in 1992, and Israel has an embassy in Baku, Azerbaijan’s capital.

Trade between the two countries is at least $200 million, according to the Post.
https://www.jta.org/quick-reads/azer...ing-of-embassy

Jews were very influential in Azerbaijan long before the country established official diplomatic relations with Pissrael. Here's an older article about this subject:

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First Shi'ite country: Azerbaijan’s historic speech at AIPAC conference


Recorded history shows that Jews have lived in Azerbaijan for 2,600 years; an estimated 30,000 currently live there.

By BENJAMIN WEINTHAL MARCH 2, 2020 14:55

WASHINGTON - The country of Azerbaijan carved out a historic role for itself by being the first majority Shi’ite country to have a cabinet level minister on Sunday deliver a speech at the American Israel Public Affairs Committee’s annual policy conference to advance the troika of relations among the Caucasus nation, Israel and the US.

Samir Sharifov, the Azerbaijani finance minister, told a packed AIPAC crowd that "Cooperation with Israel is not limited to oil supply, we are interested in widening cooperation in defense and transfer of technology. “

He noted that Israel’s one of the few "states that supported in Azerbaijan in need, with armaments.”

In a second act of cutting edge history, Sharifov read remarks from Mehriban Aliyeva, the first vice president of Azerbaijan. “It is gratifying that our former compatriots of Jewish origin, living nowadays in the United States and Israel have maintained close ties with Azerbaijan and contribute to the strengthening of our relations with these countries, we are much grateful to them.”

She delved into the history of Jews in Azerbaijan, noting “Azerbaijan had also embraced thousands of Jews who tried to escape Nazi oppression during World War II and became a second home for them.”

Recorded history shows that Jews have lived in Azerbaijan for 2,600 years. There are an estimated 30,000 Jews currently living in Azerbaijan.

“At the time of the Azerbaijan Democratic Republic of 1918-1920—the first parliamentary democracy in the Muslim world, the Jewish community actively contributed to the development of the country," said Aliyeva.
https://www.jpost.com/american-polit...ference-619449
 
Old August 4th, 2021 #108
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“No Zionists Welcome in My Country” Campaign Launched by Thousands in Morocco

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Thousands of Moroccans have launched a campaign on social media under the slogan “No_Zionists_Welcome_In_My_Country,” to express their disapproval at receiving Morocco’s first tourist delegation from “Israel”, describing those arriving as “war criminals.”

The “Moroccan Front for Supporting Palestine and Rejecting Normalization” is urging Moroccan citizens to campaign electronically and express disapproval of the Israeli delegations in Morocco, which include Israeli settlers of Moroccan origin.

In their publications, they highlighted the importance of supporting the Palestinian cause and rejecting all forms of normalization.
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Old August 9th, 2021 #109
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This rabbi is tweeting his unusual 3-week Jewish heritage road trip through Turkey


BY CNAAN LIPHSHIZ AUGUST 9, 2021 2:36 PM



(JTA) — Few Jews know Turkey like Mendy Chitrik, a rabbi who oversees kosher certification in dozens of factories across the country.

Over the past 20 years, Chitrik, a Chabad emissary who was born in Israel, has been logging thousands of miles annually across that country, which is larger than Texas and whose 12,000 Jews almost all live in the capital city of Istanbul.
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But in Chitrik’s experience, antisemitic attitudes rarely trickle down to the people he meets in his travels. Imams devote hours of their days to help him look for the sites he is investigating, Chitrik said. People on the street invite him to dinner and express their feeling of solidarity and fraternity with Jews.

“Coexistence of Jews and Muslims isn’t just a slogan for conferences,” said Chitrik, who chairs the Alliance of Rabbis in Islamic States, a body set up in 2019 to support Jewish life in Muslim countries. “It is and was reality.”

The road trip, which Chitrik and his son Chaim began on July 26, includes well-known stops that demonstrate Turkish Jewry’s deep roots, such as the ruins of the Sardis Synagogue. One of antiquity’s largest and oldest synagogues, built at least 1,500 years ago, it’s also famous for its well-preserved mosaic floor and walls, which were unearthed in 1962.

But there are also monuments that few people outside the Chitrik family even know exist, such as headstones of Jewish soldiers at Gallipoli, the site of one of the bloodiest and best known battles of World War I. The remains of Jews who fought for the Ottoman Empire lie there alongside their coreligionists from the French and British armies – part of a death toll of about 100,000 men.
https://www.jta.org/2021/08/09/globa...through-turkey
 
Old August 9th, 2021 #110
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I have not the time
to read though all the thread
at the moment,
so I don't know if this has been posted already, but
historically speaking . . .
a jew by the name Murdakhai Moshe (a merchant)
changed his name ,
to infiltrate and kill a wealthy muslim to steal
his goods and his identity (Markan bin Dir'iya).
Murdakhai, under his new alias made himself king.
^ ^ That is the history of the 'Saud' family
The Saudi family is indeed jewish not muslim.
Explains why, so many traitors boot lick the sauds as with
jews.





royalty has jewish roots (jewish pharisees and sadducee)
 
Old August 9th, 2021 #111
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a jew by the name Murdakhai Moshe (a merchant)
changed his name ,
to infiltrate and kill a wealthy muslim to steal
his goods and his identity (Markan bin Dir'iya).
Murdakhai, under his new alias made himself king.
^ ^ That is the history of the 'Saud' family
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It has been mentioned that the despicable, pro-jewish Saudi "royal" family are crypto-jews, but the above information hasn't been posted before in this thread, so I appreciate your contribution.
 
Old August 16th, 2021 #112
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The Abraham Accords just turned 1. Here’s how each of the agreements are holding up.


BY RON KAMPEAS AUGUST 16, 2021 12:49 PM



WASHINGTON (JTA) — While most of the foreign policy world is focused on President Joe Biden’s moves in Afghanistan in the wake of the stunning turn of events there, the first anniversary of another important Middle East development quietly took place last week.

The first part of the Abraham Accords, the historic cooperation agreements between Israel and several of its Arab neighbors, brokered in large part by the United States, turned one year old on Friday. The United Arab Emirates signed a treaty to normalize its relations with Israel for the first time on Aug. 13, 2020, opening up collaboration on tourism, trade, technology sharing and more. Bahrain would soon follow suit, followed by Sudan and Morocco — all of whom never had formal relations with Israel.
https://www.jta.org/2021/08/16/polit...are-holding-up
 
Old September 20th, 2021 #113
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On Abraham Accords anniversary, there is accord on calling it ‘Abraham’


BY RON KAMPEAS SEPTEMBER 20, 2021 2:05 PM



(...) By invoking Abraham, Blinken put to rest any concerns that President Joe Biden was anything less than fully committed to the accords, despite the fact that they happened under Trump.

The friendly back-and-forth between Blinken, who is Jewish; the foreign ministers of Israel and Morocco; the former holder of that post in the United Arab Emirates; and the Bahraini ambassador to the United States covered what has become familiar territory: Praising the gains already made and pledging to expand the agreements.

But it was the tone that stood out, down to Blinken not just saying Abraham’s name, but in his assigning a quasi-religious significance to the accords by noting the shared Jewish and Muslim investment in the original founding father. Blinken and the Arab diplomats also made sure to wish Israeli Foreign Minister Yair Lapid, in attendance, a happy new year.
https://www.jta.org/2021/09/20/polit...ing-it-abraham
 
Old October 8th, 2021 #114
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Bahrain signed a treaty with Israel. Now it wants to make friends with American Jews.


BY BEN SALES OCTOBER 6, 2021 7:00 AM



Shaikh Abdulla bin Ahmed Al Khalifa, the undersecretary for political affairs at the Bahraini Foreign Ministry, speaks at Yeshiva University in New York City on Oct. 4, 2021. (Courtesy of the Reut Group)

NEW YORK (JTA) — Sitting in front of a group of rabbis in New York City, the undersecretary for political affairs at the Kingdom of Bahrain’s Foreign Ministry explained that he first learned his country would be signing a diplomatic treaty with Israel on a Saturday.
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It was all part of a two-day trip meant to meet, connect with and charm leaders of the American Jewish community in New York City. The trip came against the backdrop of Bahrain’s normalization agreement last year with Israel, called the Abraham Accords, which also established full relations between Israel and the United Arab Emirates.

Al Khalifa also made a direct pitch to American Jews: He wants them to invest money in Bahrain and travel to the country as tourists. In addition — following criticism of Bahrain’s human rights record and authoritarian government — he wants American Jews to spread the message of, in his words, “the values of coexistence and acceptance and tolerance that Bahrain has been upholding for so long.”

“Every one of you has influence over your Jewish communities — encouraging them to visit Bahrain, encouraging them to have investments in Bahrain, to get to know Bahrain,” he told the rabbis.
https://www.jta.org/2021/10/06/globa...-american-jews

Cucks and scum. That's what these people are.
 
Old October 31st, 2021 #115
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A new Jewish dating site just for the Jewish Gulf communities just launched


BY SHIRA HANAU OCTOBER 31, 2021 9:55 AM



(JTA) — Earlier this month, Bahrain’s Jewish community celebrated the first Jewish wedding in the country in 52 years. The community, along with the Jewish communities in other Gulf countries, is hoping its next project will lead to more weddings.

The Association of Gulf Jewish Communities launched a new dating website for Jewish singles in the Gulf Sunday, called Jewish Singles in the Gulf. The site will allow single Jews in the area to fill out a questionnaire which a group of matchmakers will then use to match up participants.

The aim of the site is to encourage Jews in the Gulf countries to put down roots there. While countries in the area like Bahrain have long been home to Jewish communities, those countries have historically remained small. But with the increased visibility that has come with normalization agreements between Israel and the United Arab Emirates and Bahrain, the Jewish communities in those countries are hoping their numbers will increase.
https://www.jta.org/2021/10/31/globa...-just-launched
 
Old November 1st, 2021 #116
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Warming relations between Israel and Arab countries creates new application for Aravrit, script that combines Hebrew and Arabic


BY SHIRA HANAU OCTOBER 31, 2021 8:56 AM



(JTA) — When Liron Lavi Turkenich designed a writing system combining Hebrew and Arabic characters as a final project in college, she probably could not have imagined that her script would become the focal point of Israel’s pavilion at the 2020 World Expo in Dubai.

But after the Abraham Accords, in which Israel signed diplomatic agreements to normalize relations with the United Arab Emirates, and the peace agreements with other Arab countries that followed, the need for Aravrit, Turkenich’s script that allows both Hebrew and Arabic to be read from the same text, has expanded. The sky is now the limit for Turkenich’s project.
https://www.jta.org/2021/10/31/israe...rew-and-arabic
 
Old December 23rd, 2021 #117
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In Istanbul, a conference of rabbis from Islamic nations got a surprise: an audience with Erdogan


BY DAVID I. KLEIN DECEMBER 23, 2021 3:44 PM



ISTANBUL (JTA) – Rabbis from across the world filled the halls of Istanbul’s Conrad hotel this week for the inaugural conference of the Alliance of Rabbis in Islamic States (ARIS). They were expecting two days of networking, discussions of Jewish law and simple camaraderie over their shared experience of supporting Jewish life in Muslim-majoirty countries.

What they weren’t expecting was to be whisked off to the Turkish capital of Ankara, on a private plane sent by Turkish president Recep Tayyip Erdogan, to have dinner with him at his presidential palace.
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According to Chitrik, Erdogan stayed with the rabbis for two hours discussing a variety of topics.

“The president has listened very gracefully to all of the rabbis, has spoken in very strong terms against antisemitism and Islamophobia and has reiterated the Turkish stance that denying the Holocaust is a crime against humanity,” Chitrik told the Jewish Telegraphic Agency, adding that Erdogan also voiced his support for the construction and renovation of synagogues in Turkey and the Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus.

Another topic addressed was the state of Turkish-Israeli relations.

“I value our renewed dialogue with Israeli President Isaac Herzog and Prime Minister Naftali Bennett,” Erdogan noted to the rabbis, according to the government-aligned outlet Daily Sabah.
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Around 100,000 Jews still live in Muslim-majority countries, Chitrick estimated. The largest Jewish populations can be found in Kazakhstan, Azerbaijan, Iran and Turkey.

“People say, ‘Wow, there are 100,000 Jews in Islamic countries?’ Yes, there are,” he said. “They have been living in this Islamic world for thousands of years, and they continue to live here, continue to call this place home. Many times they’re very patriotic toward the places where they live in. Most of them are not looking for other places to move out to. “

When he founded ARIS, Chitrik was adamant that it couldn’t just be an organization of Chabad rabbis. It would need to bridge all the different Jewish communities served in the Muslim world, including post-Soviet countries like Azerbaijan and Kazakhstan; historic communities of the Middle East and North Africa such as Turkey, Iran, Tunisia and Morocco; and fast-growing communities in the UAE and Bahrain in the wake of the Abraham Accords.

“The agenda of the Alliance of Rabbis is to normalize Jewish life in Muslim countries, Chitrik said. “It shouldn’t look as a surprise to people.”
https://www.jta.org/2021/12/23/globa...e-with-erdogan

 
Old January 6th, 2022 #118
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Researchers discover ruins of 16th-century Jewish community in Morocco as king orders restoration of sites


BY JORDYN HAIME JANUARY 2, 2022 6:00 AM

(JTA) — Researchers from Israel, Morocco and France have discovered remnants of a small Jewish community in the mountains of Morocco, Haaretz reported Monday.
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The discovery comes weeks after King Mohammed VI of Morocco ordered the restoration of hundreds of Jewish sites across the kingdom, and a year after Israel and Morocco agreed to formal diplomatic relations. The restoration plan includes the site at Tamanart, as well as cemeteries and hundreds of synagogues.

Jews are believed to have first established communities in Morocco more than 2,000 years ago. In the mid-20th century, the Jewish population reached a peak of 250,000. It is estimated that only 2,000 Jews remain today.
https://www.jta.org/2022/01/02/globa...ation-of-sites

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Mohammed has vast business holdings across several economic sectors in Morocco. His net worth has been estimated at between US$2.1 billion[6] and over US$5 billion,[7][8] and, according to the American business magazine Forbes, he was the richest king in Africa in 2014 and the fifth-richest king in the world.[9]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mohammed_VI_of_Morocco

As I showed on the first page of this thread, Morocco's disgraceful king is a jew-lackey, just like his equally disgraceful father was.
 
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Saudi Arabia turned into a Zionist base in the Middle East, as planned by Churchill during WWII...





(Chaim Weizmann was a major Zionist leader and the 1st president of Israel.)
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Under Erdoğan, Turkish authorities are leading a revival of Jewish heritage


BY CNAAN LIPHSHIZ FEBRUARY 9, 2022 4:32 PM

(JTA) — Turkey, a country with a dwindling Jewish population and a Muslim leader who’s been accused of making antisemitic remarks by the U.S. State Department, might not present the likeliest scene for a revival of Jewish heritage.

Yet that is what has been happening there for the past five years. Historic synagogues have been renovated and an historic center of Sephardic life holds an annual culture festival.

Some observers regard this revival, much of it underwritten with government funds, as little more than an attempt by President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan to ditch the antisemitism label he has earned by ranting against Israelis and Jews and dismissing critics as stooges of Israel.

But others identify a more complex set of motivations, combining aspirations to attract tourists and a genuine appreciation for the ancient presence of Jews in Turkey and their contribution to its culture.
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Critics of Erdoğan’s conservative party, which has triggered a revival of Muslim nationalist sentiment as it cracked down on dissent in the media, the army and everyday society, say it is Islamist and fundamentalist. Erdoğan has rejected these labels, and he has recently spoken with Israeli President Isaac Herzog about hosting a warm diplomatic meeting.
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Following the State Department’s rebuke last year of Erdoğan’s perceived antisemitism, the Jewish Confederation of Turkey defended the strongman. “On the contrary, he has always been constructive, supportive & encouraging towards us,” the group said on Twitter.

Ishak Ibrahimzadeh, the Confederation’s president, declined to be interviewed for this article.

Rabbi Mendy Chitrik, the Istanbul-based chairman of the Alliance of Rabbis in Islamic States, said authorities seem sincere in their devotion to preserving Jewish heritage.

“As a rabbi who cares about strengthening Jewish life and persevering Jewish heritage, I am not concerned with political considerations,” said Chitrik, who attended the Kilis festival.
https://www.jta.org/2022/02/09/globa...ewish-heritage
 
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