Russian Israelis

[C. G. Estabrook]

Perhaps it has something to do with US foreign policy, the economic
interests driving it, and the ideological smokescreen spread about "the
state of the Jewish people world-wide" -- obfuscation that Finkelstein has
contributed to dispelling. --CGE

On Fri, 22 Mar 2002, Max Sawicky wrote:


> So why did they bring in Ethiopians?  To get some new restaurant
> choices?
> 
> Present company excepted, I have to say that the preoccupation
> with Yids on this list by some people creeps me out.
> 
> It's not that I disagree with the 'facts' proffered -- I seldom do.
> It's the absence of justifiable context.
> 
> mbs
> 
>  
> > 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... 
> 
>