Russian Israelis

pradeep ppillai at sprint.ca
Fri Mar 22 08:11:59 PST 2002


Cian wrote:
>One particularly amusing/depressing aspect to this
>story is that of course lots of the immigrants are
>Jewish at all. Wierd to think that in their desire to
>preserve Jewish purity, they're bringing in non Jewish
>Russians...


>From an interview with Norman Finkelstein:

"Dr David Rabeeya (Iraqi born American rabbi), talks of a

caste system in Israeli society, where the Arabs are clearly at

the bottom, but also the non European Jews are considered

to be of lesser value. He claims that the wholesale

importation of Russian Jews was to ensure the demographic

majority of secular European Jews over their Sephardic

countrymen for generations to come.

There is some truth to that, because a large percentage of

the so-called 'Russian Jews' are not Jewish. In recent years,

it has been more than 50%, and the reason why is because

the Israeli establishment likes the blue eyed, blonde haired

Aryan types as a racial group. The Russians look right even if

they are not Jewish, and they preserve the Ashkenazi elite's

dominance."

Full interview: http://www.counterpunch.org/finkelstein1.html



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