Comments on: The point of no return to Egypt http://blogs.timesofisrael.com/the-point-of-no-return-to-egypt/ The Marketplace of Ideas Wed, 22 May 2013 17:23:40 +0300 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 By: Cheryl Hallenbeck http://blogs.timesofisrael.com/the-point-of-no-return-to-egypt/#comment-102248 Cheryl Hallenbeck Sat, 09 Mar 2013 08:28:01 +0000 http://blogs.timesofisrael.com/?p=101534#comment-102248 Hardly a joke…the world is quick to accuse Israel of "ethnic cleansing" of the "Palestinians" (really Jordanian Arabs)…but the mass exodus of the Jews from Muslim countries cannot be classified as anything but ethnic cleansing…Egypt is NOT in the minority here. Europe, Middle East, North Africa & Russia…all are guilty. 109 times in history the Jews have been "resettled"…never to return to their homes. 6000 years and there are only 15 million Jews (3 million less than 1933 when Hitler was elected Chancellor of Germany) The Palestinians could have had a state the same time as Israel was established. Their leaders and the surrounding Arab nations chose war and were soundly beaten.

]]> By: Ha Whb http://blogs.timesofisrael.com/the-point-of-no-return-to-egypt/#comment-94960 Ha Whb Tue, 12 Feb 2013 10:10:31 +0000 http://blogs.timesofisrael.com/?p=101534#comment-94960 You don't get the point of Elariam comment. He wants all Jew back to their original lands and leave the current one to the Palestine. Got it !!

]]> By: Phil Doudar http://blogs.timesofisrael.com/the-point-of-no-return-to-egypt/#comment-94892 Phil Doudar Tue, 12 Feb 2013 05:01:45 +0000 http://blogs.timesofisrael.com/?p=101534#comment-94892 Good post, and touching. But how many Israelis would shout "over my dead body" to a Palestinian return to their homeland ?

]]> By: Yitzhak Santis http://blogs.timesofisrael.com/the-point-of-no-return-to-egypt/#comment-94732 Yitzhak Santis Mon, 11 Feb 2013 15:17:43 +0000 http://blogs.timesofisrael.com/?p=101534#comment-94732 Rachel, great article! This utter sense of pain and anger held by so many Mizrahi Jews is not expressed enough. The deliberate displacement by Arab governments of nearly one million Jews was a massive human rights travesty that must be acknowledged and righted. Keep writing, your voice needs to be heard.

]]> By: Anonymous http://blogs.timesofisrael.com/the-point-of-no-return-to-egypt/#comment-94730 Anonymous Mon, 11 Feb 2013 13:27:04 +0000 http://blogs.timesofisrael.com/?p=101534#comment-94730 The only way a Jew should return to egypt, is on a straffing or bombing run.

]]> By: Sherif Ehab Aziz http://blogs.timesofisrael.com/the-point-of-no-return-to-egypt/#comment-94588 Sherif Ehab Aziz Mon, 11 Feb 2013 02:41:44 +0000 http://blogs.timesofisrael.com/?p=101534#comment-94588 In the 40's there was a famous Egyptian movie called " Hassan & Morkous & Cohen". The story was about ( Muslim & Christian & Jew) friends. In the late 90's another movie was made called "Hassan & Morkous" . The joke in Egypt now is the next movie will be called "Hassan" since both Cohen & Morkous had been driven out of the country

]]> By: Milton D Beattie http://blogs.timesofisrael.com/the-point-of-no-return-to-egypt/#comment-94556 Milton D Beattie Mon, 11 Feb 2013 00:14:48 +0000 http://blogs.timesofisrael.com/?p=101534#comment-94556 Paul Turner….<and it is just as painful for the Arabs of Palestine who have lost everything.>

They who chose to leave at the PROMISE of return by their ARAB neigbours to ANNIHILATE the Jews of Israel and any there with them who TOOK up the right offered to ALL to continue to live in the land they were born with all the rights they always had.

People who join in a program to murder all their neighbours based on religious or racial basis as those people that left their land to allow for that murder did, leaving for the purposes of seizing ALL that land don't have a leg to stand on in playing victims especially when they reject peace offers repeatedly and respond to overtures of peace with contempt and violence and rockets…. even while living utterly dependent on those they seek to slaughter.

When their leaders were only years before helping Hitler do his worst to Jews and raising troops for his army and advising him against releasing Jews in exchange for German prisoners of war rather exterminating the Jews, and when they and the nations the Arabs of palestine that gave up their right to live in Israel in peace with their neighbours of centuries in order to join a group of 5 odd Nations far better armed to "finish what Hitler started" what do you think such people deserve.

"The occupied territories are some of the cushiest refugee camps in the world supplied by Israel with Electricity and other services even while they are in the middle of a Rocket campaign aimed specifically at Killing civilian Israeli Jews Arabs or any person there".

You certainly have a VERY STRANGE LOGIC.

]]> By: Moro Baruk http://blogs.timesofisrael.com/the-point-of-no-return-to-egypt/#comment-94548 Moro Baruk Sun, 10 Feb 2013 23:34:08 +0000 http://blogs.timesofisrael.com/?p=101534#comment-94548 And this is where blind antisemitism confronts justice.

]]> By: Bea Lieberman http://blogs.timesofisrael.com/the-point-of-no-return-to-egypt/#comment-94532 Bea Lieberman Sun, 10 Feb 2013 20:06:59 +0000 http://blogs.timesofisrael.com/?p=101534#comment-94532 Great article! Keep them coming Rachel.

]]> By: Point of No Return http://blogs.timesofisrael.com/the-point-of-no-return-to-egypt/#comment-94418 Point of No Return Sun, 10 Feb 2013 14:36:17 +0000 http://blogs.timesofisrael.com/?p=101534#comment-94418 Paul Turner : With all due respect the two situations are not at all similar: the Arabs lost everything because they were foolish enough to reject compromise and go to war. They have to to deal with the consequences of their own actions. The Jews of Egypt, on the other hand, had nothing to do with the conflict: they were scapegoated simply for being Jews. There is a moral difference.

]]> By: Paul Turner http://blogs.timesofisrael.com/the-point-of-no-return-to-egypt/#comment-94416 Paul Turner Sun, 10 Feb 2013 14:25:26 +0000 http://blogs.timesofisrael.com/?p=101534#comment-94416 <The pain of having the land of your birth torn away from you is one that resounds with clarity and resoluteness.>

For sure, and it is just as painful for the Arabs of Palestine who have lost everything.

]]> By: Anonymous http://blogs.timesofisrael.com/the-point-of-no-return-to-egypt/#comment-94414 Anonymous Sun, 10 Feb 2013 14:16:28 +0000 http://blogs.timesofisrael.com/?p=101534#comment-94414 this is a failed state that can't help itself!

]]> By: Anonymous http://blogs.timesofisrael.com/the-point-of-no-return-to-egypt/#comment-94410 Anonymous Sun, 10 Feb 2013 14:15:52 +0000 http://blogs.timesofisrael.com/?p=101534#comment-94410 who would return to the egyptian madness?

]]> By: Anonymous http://blogs.timesofisrael.com/the-point-of-no-return-to-egypt/#comment-94412 Anonymous Sun, 10 Feb 2013 14:15:52 +0000 http://blogs.timesofisrael.com/?p=101534#comment-94412 who would return to the egyptian madness?

]]> By: Dominique Kahtan http://blogs.timesofisrael.com/the-point-of-no-return-to-egypt/#comment-94382 Dominique Kahtan Sun, 10 Feb 2013 11:31:32 +0000 http://blogs.timesofisrael.com/?p=101534#comment-94382 one can feel the pain, the hurt…beautifully and movingly written piece, Rachel.
Alas, the world does not care…nor about the Jews nor about Israel…the world needs a scapegoat…and whom better than…

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