Wow. Just wow. OK, I'm going to set aside some of the other stuff for now and focus on the blatantly anti-semitic part. For the record, I have never
accused anyone of anti-semitism before but I see no other way in which to describe some of the stuff you said.
There is quite a large difference between Jewish mellahs and little italy. For that matter, there is a large difference between the social status of
Jews in Arab countries and the social status of Italians in modern day America. I'm having trouble believing that there are people out there who
cannot discern between de-facto segregation (chinatown) and forced oppression (mellahs) in todays day and age. Here's a tip for the future so you can
tell easily. If an ethnic group is forced to live in a restricted area, forbidden to leave or live elsewhere, forced to live by a restricted set of
rules not enforced on other ethnic groups, (mandating what they can and cannot do for a living, how much school they can attend, etc.) periodically
the target of pogroms and essentially lives in an enforced second class status within a society, then they are OPPRESSED.
In Morocco for example, Jews were routinely executed publicly for no crime and their murderers never prosecuted.
According to a statistical report of the Alliance Israélite Universelle for the years 1864-80 no less than 307 Jews were murdered in the city and
district of Morocco, which crimes, although brought to the attention of the magistracy upon every occasion, remained unpunished ↑ . The ideas of law
and justice which make such conditions possible are expressed in the Moroccan proverb, "One may kill as many as seven Jews without being
punished."
More importantly, throughout the Arab world, Jews were forced to live in ghettos, wear distinctive clothing to mark them as Jewish and were limited in
the kinds of jobs they could have. Of course they were restricted in actions like property buying, marrying, etc., and usually had additional taxation
imposed.
Where are you from dude, that you think this kind of stuff sounds great? Are you just unaware of it? Or are you some kind of white power guy who feels
that "lesser-races" should have restrictive laws placed on them? Do you long for the days of seperate but equal in America? I am being serious.
America fought Italy in WWII, right? Can you show me when, during that war, thousands and thousands of ethnic-Italians were massacred and stripped of
their American citizenship? Because you seem to think that there is no difference between little Italy and a Mellah.
The mellah of Fez was not always successful in protecting its dwellers. On May 14, 1465, its inhabitants were nearly all killed by the rebels who
overthrew the Merinid dynasty. That attack sparked a wave of violence against the Jews all over Morocco. The immediate cause of the anti-Jewish
violence was the appointment of a Jew to the post of vizier.
Kindly remind me when there was a nationwide attack on Italian-Americans following the first one being elected to congress. I don't seem to remember
it.
Dude, I seriously recommend you do a little research before you casually disregard systematic oppression against someone else's ethnicity. There is a
very long and very brutal history of pogroms and oppression against Jews in Arab lands stretching over centuries. Maybe that sounds like a nice stroll
in Chinatown to you, but to the millions who fled it appeared somewhat different. The Jewish population in Morocco pre-dates the Arabs. They were
there a loooong time. They did not all decide to leave for no reason whatsoever.
This has nothing to do with Israel or Palestine, by the way. If someone chose to deny the oppression in aparthied south africa or of post-civil war
blacks in america I would make the same fuss.
