The diaspora of Arab Jews back to Israel followed on the heels of 48 and the disposession of the Palestinians. It is also the result of terrorist actions on the part of Israel to make Jews feel unsafe in the rest of the Middle East. This happened in Iraq for a fact.
As for the Jews in the middle east, they were historically safer there than anywhere else in the world up till 48 except perhaps in the U.S.
Joanna
Yoshie Furuhashi wrote:
> On 9/10/06, Joel Schalit <managingeditor at tikkun.org> wrote:
>
>> Israel's political/economic elite is largely Ashkenazi, but the country
>> is roughly 50% of non-European origin.
>
>
> Yes, the Arabs (and Turks, and Iranians, too, but especially Arabs)
> ought to remember that their countries were part of the problem: if
> their countries had really cherished Jews as equal and patriotic
> citizens, the Jewish population in Israel could have been half its
> size today!
>
> Works by Yehouda Shenhav, Ella Shohat, and others ought to be
> promoted. The less monolithic Israel's Jewish population is (in
> reality, in the perception of Israelis, and in the perception of
> Arabs, Iranians, and others), the better chances for peace the Middle
> East will have.