Unlike many other millions:
Iran's Jews reject cash offer to move to Israel
· Expats offer families £30,000 to emigrate
· Our identity is not for sale, say community leadersRobert Tait in Tehran
Thursday July 12, 2007
Guardian UnlimitedIran's Jews have given the country a loyalty pledge in the face of cash offers aimed at encouraging them to move to Israel, the arch-enemy of its Islamic rulers.
The incentives – ranging from £5,000 a person to £30,000 for families – were offered from a special fund established by wealthy expatriate Jews in an effort to prompt a mass migration to Israel from among Iran's 25,000-strong Jewish community. The offers were made with Israel's official blessing and were additional to the usual state packages it provides to Jews emigrating from the diaspora.
However, the Society of Iranian Jews dismissed them as "immature political enticements" and said their national identity was not for sale.
"The identity of Iranian Jews is not tradeable for any amount of money," the society said in a statement. "Iranian Jews are among the most ancient Iranians. Iran's Jews love their Iranian identity and their culture, so threats and this immature political enticement will not achieve their aim of wiping out the identity of Iranian Jews."
The Israeli newspaper Ma'ariv reported that the incentives had been doubled after earlier offers of £2,500 a head failed to attract any Iranian Jews to leave for Israel.
Iran's sole Jewish MP, Morris Motamed, said the offers were insulting and put the country's Jews under pressure to prove their loyalty.
"It suggests the Iranian Jew can be encouraged to emigrate by money," he said. "Iran's Jews have always been free to emigrate and three-quarters of them did so after the revolution but 70% of those went to America, not Israel."
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What, they want to get them all out before bombing Iran? Good on the Iranian Jews. Hang in there!
I feel so sorry for those Iranian Jews living under the tyranny of the Iranian Mullah regime.They must be scared stiff to reveal their actual feelings.
I mean Iranian intelligence operatives recently detained over a dozen squirrels found within the nation's borders, claiming the rodents were serving as spies for Western powers determined to undermine the Islamic Republic!!
http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3425130,00.html
That's the atmosphere today prevailing in Iran
So Zionists bribe and coerce governments like Ethiopia and Yemen to air lift Jews to Zion. They arm-twits others like Russia to let go of their Jewish citizens and settle them is zion. They bribe Jews in Iran to leave their country. Then 50 years later zionists will write in their history books about persecution and expulsions of Jews from those countries and how the jews had to flee for their lives and leave their property behind. one must take pause at Zionist tactics and their creative history writing.
@A.: Read this through.
@Joan: Judging by the fact that this is exactly what's happening today, I won't be surprised if the future generation of zionists wails that the Jews were thrown out of Iran, preferably under risk to their lives and threats of genocide.
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Maurice Motamed A Jewish Member of Parliament said he has the opportunity to travel outside Iran , he goes to Europe etc… But Iran is Home. I applaud them , their identity is NOT for sale . Bravo
same with Andre Azoulay the Advisor of the Moroccan King Mohamed 6 (used to be his father s adviser ) he often says He is Moroccan who believes in Judaism and Morocco is Home .
Hey, Sphinx, what happened in Egypt, exactly? What did those three stars on the old flag stand for?
Ahmadinejad meeting neturei karta rabbis in new york:
http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=3xA1DbBAcOQ&feature=related
Enjoy :)