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	<title>Comments on: Why I Left Israel and Why I&#8217;m Going Home</title>
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		<title>By: Pauli Ojala</title>
		<link>http://www.onejerusalem.com/2008/05/12/why-i-left-israel-and-why-im-going-home/comment-page-1/#comment-178556</link>
		<dc:creator>Pauli Ojala</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 17 May 2008 21:07:34 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Who has heard that in the 1930&#039;s Bagdad every 3rd citizen was a native Jew? The Sefardi (Safrati) Jews have a 400 year old history and the Mizrahi Jews over 2,500 year old history in the Middle East - outside the location of the state of Israel (Palestine).

Here&#039;s the statistics regarding not ONLY the expelsion of Jews from various Moslim countries in the last 60 years that Israel has been an independent state, but also numbers expelled from the Europe in a longer time interval. The Jews are no settlers of colonialism:
http://www.helsinki.fi/~pjojala/Expelled-Jews-statistics.htm

60 years of survival. This is statistics, not Zionism. When the military means have lacked the power, it is now a time of a media war to spit on the Jews and curse the Jewish Scriptures. Both the Old and New Testament were written by Jews. Although Jasser Arafat in his books claimed that there never was any Jewish Temple in Jerusalem and that Jesus was not a Jew, he could not deceive the honest spectator

As a matter of fact, the population of Arabs (my beloved friends and brothers, just like the Jews, our common fathers) under the Israeli government was increased ten-fold (10X) in only 57 years. The Palestinian life expectancy increased from 48 to 72 years in 1967-1995. The death rate decreased by over 2/3 in 1970-1090 and the Israeli medical campaigns decreased the child deat rate from a level of 60 per 1000 in 1968 to 15 per 1000 in 2000. (An analogous figure was 64 in Iraq, 40 in Egypt, 23 in Jordan, and 22 in Syria in 2000). During 1967-1988 the amount of comprehensive schoold and second level polytechnic institutes for the Arabs was increased by 35%. During 1970-1986 the proportion of Palestinian women at the West Bank and Gaza not having gone to school decreased from 67 % to 32 %.  The Gross Domestic Product (GDP) per capita in West Bank and Gaza increased in 1968-1991 BKT from 165 US dollars to 1715 dollars (compare with 1630$ in Turkey, 1440$ in Tunis, 1050$ in Jordan, 800$ in Syria, 600$ in Egypt. and 400$ in Yemen).

One-fourth of the judgements of the Human Rights Commission of the United Nations strike Israel. Out of the incidences dealt in the Security Counsil one-third is having to do with Israel. I think this resembles the hysteria seen in the Black Plague in Europe, when the European Jews were accused of the pandemia and burned alive. The phobic mob was really scared and saw the peculiar Jews as a threat.

Pauli.Ojala@gmail.com
Helsinki, Finland
PS. Statistics of the beneficial impact of Jewish population to the host country in terms of inventions, science and technology:
http://www.helsinki.fi/~pjojala/Indicator.html</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Who has heard that in the 1930&#8217;s Bagdad every 3rd citizen was a native Jew? The Sefardi (Safrati) Jews have a 400 year old history and the Mizrahi Jews over 2,500 year old history in the Middle East &#8211; outside the location of the state of Israel (Palestine).</p>
<p>Here&#8217;s the statistics regarding not ONLY the expelsion of Jews from various Moslim countries in the last 60 years that Israel has been an independent state, but also numbers expelled from the Europe in a longer time interval. The Jews are no settlers of colonialism:<br />
<a href="http://www.helsinki.fi/~pjojala/Expelled-Jews-statistics.htm" rel="nofollow">http://www.helsinki.fi/~pjojala/Expelled-Jews-statistics.htm</a></p>
<p>60 years of survival. This is statistics, not Zionism. When the military means have lacked the power, it is now a time of a media war to spit on the Jews and curse the Jewish Scriptures. Both the Old and New Testament were written by Jews. Although Jasser Arafat in his books claimed that there never was any Jewish Temple in Jerusalem and that Jesus was not a Jew, he could not deceive the honest spectator</p>
<p>As a matter of fact, the population of Arabs (my beloved friends and brothers, just like the Jews, our common fathers) under the Israeli government was increased ten-fold (10X) in only 57 years. The Palestinian life expectancy increased from 48 to 72 years in 1967-1995. The death rate decreased by over 2/3 in 1970-1090 and the Israeli medical campaigns decreased the child deat rate from a level of 60 per 1000 in 1968 to 15 per 1000 in 2000. (An analogous figure was 64 in Iraq, 40 in Egypt, 23 in Jordan, and 22 in Syria in 2000). During 1967-1988 the amount of comprehensive schoold and second level polytechnic institutes for the Arabs was increased by 35%. During 1970-1986 the proportion of Palestinian women at the West Bank and Gaza not having gone to school decreased from 67 % to 32 %.  The Gross Domestic Product (GDP) per capita in West Bank and Gaza increased in 1968-1991 BKT from 165 US dollars to 1715 dollars (compare with 1630$ in Turkey, 1440$ in Tunis, 1050$ in Jordan, 800$ in Syria, 600$ in Egypt. and 400$ in Yemen).</p>
<p>One-fourth of the judgements of the Human Rights Commission of the United Nations strike Israel. Out of the incidences dealt in the Security Counsil one-third is having to do with Israel. I think this resembles the hysteria seen in the Black Plague in Europe, when the European Jews were accused of the pandemia and burned alive. The phobic mob was really scared and saw the peculiar Jews as a threat.</p>
<p><a href="mailto:Pauli.Ojala@gmail.com">Pauli.Ojala@gmail.com</a><br />
Helsinki, Finland<br />
PS. Statistics of the beneficial impact of Jewish population to the host country in terms of inventions, science and technology:<br />
<a href="http://www.helsinki.fi/~pjojala/Indicator.html" rel="nofollow">http://www.helsinki.fi/~pjojala/Indicator.html</a></p>
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		<title>By: Darnell Clayton</title>
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		<dc:creator>Darnell Clayton</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 12 May 2008 23:25:59 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>This is a great story to hear!

Hopefully Ms. Motro finds a decent place to live in Israel, as I hear some places there can be quite expensive (at least in Jerusalem and Tel Aviv).</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>This is a great story to hear!</p>
<p>Hopefully Ms. Motro finds a decent place to live in Israel, as I hear some places there can be quite expensive (at least in Jerusalem and Tel Aviv).</p>
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		<title>By: Danny Levine</title>
		<link>http://www.onejerusalem.com/2008/05/12/why-i-left-israel-and-why-im-going-home/comment-page-1/#comment-177678</link>
		<dc:creator>Danny Levine</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 12 May 2008 07:23:29 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>I think every person has issues in his past and in his culture he has to reconcile with. We as Jews, simply have &quot;extra baggage&quot;, and it goes with us even when we try to run away from it. My advice to Ms. Motro and to other people who feel the same as her, is to stay and fight for their values and ideals. The strongest cultural changes always come from within.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I think every person has issues in his past and in his culture he has to reconcile with. We as Jews, simply have &#8220;extra baggage&#8221;, and it goes with us even when we try to run away from it. My advice to Ms. Motro and to other people who feel the same as her, is to stay and fight for their values and ideals. The strongest cultural changes always come from within.</p>
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