Hello COmentator,
Without meaning any disrespect to those who have already answered, I would like to reply to the first post by COmentator.
Also, I would prefer to reply to the discussion title, not the comment about the Holocaust.
As long as the reason for the reduction of Jewish populations outside of Israel in the wider middle east, is that they have been moving to Israel, then I do not see any issue.
It is right and proper that these Jewish people in Arab countries make a return to their ancestral homeland of Israel. Israel is the place for which they have been yearning in their hearts, and so it is where they will be happiest.
The Wikipedia quote is worded, reflecting the typical manner in which the world unfortunately sees the Jewish people - Incorrectly only as immigrants to Israel from other countries. That is misleading because in ancestry the Jews came from the land of Israel having been substantially though not fully, exiled by Roman persecution.
Judaism is both an ethnicity as well as a religion.
The name "Jew" (Yehudi) originates from Judah son of Israel (Jacob),
thus later the tribe of Judah,
then the portion of the land of Israel allotted to that tribe,
and later to the Kingdom of Judah.
"Jew" thus also refers in ancestry to a citizen of the Kingdom of Judah.
Therefore the Jewish people including the Mizrahi Jews to which reference is made in the above quote from Wikipedia, have Judah heritage !
The Jewish people's previous sovereign states in the land of Israel, from which we see that modern Israel is Re-established within the Jewish ancestral homeland:
The last indigenous sovereign state in the land of Israel prior to modern Israel:
Post-Biblical history records the Jewish Hasmonean Kingdom, including what is now wrongly referred to as the "West Bank" (proper name Judah and Samaria), Gaza, and Golan Heights, with its capital of (what is now EAST) Jerusalem / “Old City”; between 110 BCE / 754 BH and 63 BCE / 706 BH - Map:
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/c...ingdom.jpg
Map of the Jewish Kingdom of Israel aka Samaria, including part of the "West Bank", and Golan Heights, last capital Samaria; between 930 BCE / 1599 BH and 720 BCE / 1383 BH:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Kingd...ap_830.svg
Map of the Jewish Kingdom of Judah, including the rest of the "West Bank", capital of (what is now EAST) Jerusalem / “Old City”; between 930 BCE / 1599 BH and 586 BCE / 1244 BH:
(See the latter-linked map.)
Map of the Jewish Kingdom of Israel - United, including the "West Bank", Gaza, and Golan Heights, capital of (what is now EAST) Jerusalem / “Old City”; between 1050 BCE / 1723 BH and 930 BCE / 1599 BH:
https://www.quora.com/Were-the-Golan-Hei...a religion
Map of the Tribes of Israel Confederation - Apportionment of Canaan; about 1200 BCE / 1877 BH to 1050 BCE / 1723 BH:
https://en-academic.com/pictures/enwiki/...el_Map.svg
[Note: The map shows a separate area for the tribe of Simeon, but this is not correct for Simeon were not allowed their own portion, but were instead incorporated within Judah.]
Without meaning any disrespect to those who have already answered, I would like to reply to the first post by COmentator.
Also, I would prefer to reply to the discussion title, not the comment about the Holocaust.
Quote:[Heading:] "Population in Israel"
'[...] Some 607,900 Israeli Jews are immigrants and first-generation descendants by paternal lineage of Moroccan, Tunisian, Libyan, Algerian, Yemenite, Iranian, Egyptian, Kurdish, Afghan, Pakistani, Indian and Turkish Jewish communities.[8] Many more Israeli Jews are second and third generation Mizrahi descendants or have a partial Mizrahi origin. [...]'
Citation 8.
Statistical Abstract of Israel, 2009, CBS [[Israel] Central Bureau of Statistics]. "Table 2.24 – Jews, by country of origin and age" (PDF). Retrieved 22 March 2010 [Although the link is currently unavailable, the PDF webpage can be viewed here}:
https://web.archive.org/web/202307090033...02_24x.pdf
Source:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mizrahi_Jews_in_Israel
As long as the reason for the reduction of Jewish populations outside of Israel in the wider middle east, is that they have been moving to Israel, then I do not see any issue.
It is right and proper that these Jewish people in Arab countries make a return to their ancestral homeland of Israel. Israel is the place for which they have been yearning in their hearts, and so it is where they will be happiest.
The Wikipedia quote is worded, reflecting the typical manner in which the world unfortunately sees the Jewish people - Incorrectly only as immigrants to Israel from other countries. That is misleading because in ancestry the Jews came from the land of Israel having been substantially though not fully, exiled by Roman persecution.
Judaism is both an ethnicity as well as a religion.
The name "Jew" (Yehudi) originates from Judah son of Israel (Jacob),
thus later the tribe of Judah,
then the portion of the land of Israel allotted to that tribe,
and later to the Kingdom of Judah.
"Jew" thus also refers in ancestry to a citizen of the Kingdom of Judah.
Therefore the Jewish people including the Mizrahi Jews to which reference is made in the above quote from Wikipedia, have Judah heritage !
The Jewish people's previous sovereign states in the land of Israel, from which we see that modern Israel is Re-established within the Jewish ancestral homeland:
The last indigenous sovereign state in the land of Israel prior to modern Israel:
Post-Biblical history records the Jewish Hasmonean Kingdom, including what is now wrongly referred to as the "West Bank" (proper name Judah and Samaria), Gaza, and Golan Heights, with its capital of (what is now EAST) Jerusalem / “Old City”; between 110 BCE / 754 BH and 63 BCE / 706 BH - Map:
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/c...ingdom.jpg
Map of the Jewish Kingdom of Israel aka Samaria, including part of the "West Bank", and Golan Heights, last capital Samaria; between 930 BCE / 1599 BH and 720 BCE / 1383 BH:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Kingd...ap_830.svg
Map of the Jewish Kingdom of Judah, including the rest of the "West Bank", capital of (what is now EAST) Jerusalem / “Old City”; between 930 BCE / 1599 BH and 586 BCE / 1244 BH:
(See the latter-linked map.)
Map of the Jewish Kingdom of Israel - United, including the "West Bank", Gaza, and Golan Heights, capital of (what is now EAST) Jerusalem / “Old City”; between 1050 BCE / 1723 BH and 930 BCE / 1599 BH:
https://www.quora.com/Were-the-Golan-Hei...a religion
Map of the Tribes of Israel Confederation - Apportionment of Canaan; about 1200 BCE / 1877 BH to 1050 BCE / 1723 BH:
https://en-academic.com/pictures/enwiki/...el_Map.svg
[Note: The map shows a separate area for the tribe of Simeon, but this is not correct for Simeon were not allowed their own portion, but were instead incorporated within Judah.]