PM Olmert to French Jews: I wish you'd come home to Israel

From Ha'aretz:



Well, Mr. Olmert, make your government start treating Palestinians like human beings and maybe they will have reason to. What reason does a Jew have for migrating to Israel if you have turned it into the opposite of what Israel is supposed to stand for?

PB

Just a way to fill up West Bank settlements.

...working hard to try to surpass Sharon's pre-Kadima legacy of Crimes against Humanity? I wonder, if Sharon came out of his coma would he slap Olmert or shake his hand?

PB

'PM calls on French Jews to make aliyah

Two years after former prime minister Ariel Sharon caused a storm in France by calling upon French Jews to make aliya to escape anti-Semitism, his successor, Prime Minister Ehud Olmert, sent the same message in a more subtle manner as he wrapped up his five-day trip to Europe on Thursday.

Sharon's aliya call instigated a diplomatic dispute with the French government and left him persona non grata in France for a year. Olmert made a point of tempering the aliya message that all Israeli prime ministers have made on virtually every trip to the Diaspora by noting that anti-Semitic incidents have fallen by 50 percent in the past year and by praising the French government's efforts on the issue.

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Olmert also repeated his messages about fighting terror and implementing realignment that he delivered in all his meetings in London and Paris.

Regarding realignment, Olmert said: "Every centimeter from the Jordan River to the Mediterranean Sea is Jewish land and is an inseparable part of our history, our prayers, our longing and our dreams. Throughout history, the land has never belonged to another nation other than the Jews."

http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1150355502686&pagename=JPost%2FJPArticle%2FPrinter

Olmert, I'm beginning to get the impression too, seems to be something of a shit.

do you ever live in a black and white world. I've always thought they're dangerous places to inhabit.

Basically, Israel decided to start resettling some of the huge number of Soviet Jews which were emigrating at the time into the Occupied Territories. Even caused a mini-row with the U.S. because (at the time, anyway) the U.S. was opposed to Israel using U.S. aid to build settlements there.

PB

Apparently pointing out the blatantly obvious is now residing in a Black And White World...

I saw a documentary a long while back about some Soviet Jews who'd been encouraged to emigrate to Israel, only to find themselves in a West Bank settlement. All the sweeteners and subsidies they'd been offered to come to Israel actually didn't apply to them if they upped and moved to Israel itself, but only applied to them if they stayed in the West Bank, which wasn't part of Israel. Needless to say they weren't happy campers at all....

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