Israelis Rush for Second Passports
Posted on 04. Jun, 2011 by Franklin Lamb in Palestine
"Perhaps as many as half of the Jews living in Israel will consider leaving Palestine in the next few years if political and social trends continue."
By FRANKLIN LAMB
Beirut
Perhaps historians or cultural anthropologists surveying the course of human events can identify for us a land, in addition to Palestine, where such a large percentage of a recently arrived colonial population prepared to exercise their right to depart, while many more, with actual millennial roots but victims of ethnic cleansing, prepared to exercise their right of Return.
One of the many ironies inherent in the 19th century Zionist colonial enterprise in Palestine is the fact that this increasingly fraying project was billed for most of the 20th century as a haven in the Middle East for “returning” persecuted European Jews. But today, in the 21st century, it is Europe that is increasingly being viewed by a large number of the illegal occupiers of Palestinian land as the much desired haven for returning Middle Eastern Jews.
To paraphrase Jewish journalist Gideon Levy “If our forefathers dreamt of an Israeli passport to escape from Europe, there are many among us who are now dreaming of a second passport to escape to Europe.
Several studies in Israel and one conducted by AIPAC and another by the Jewish National Fund in Germany show that perhaps as many as half of the Jews living in Israel will consider leaving Palestine in the next few years if current political and social trends continue. A 2008 survey by the Jerusalem-based Menachem Begin Heritage Center found that 59% of Israelis had approached or intended to approach a foreign embassy to inquire about or apply for citizenship and a passport. Today it is estimated that the figure is approaching 70%.
The number of Israelis thinking of leaving Palestine is climbing rapidly according to researchers at Bar-Ilan University who conducted a study published recently in Eretz Acheret, (“A Different Place”) an Israeli NGO that claims to promote cultural dialogue. What the Bar-Ilan study found is that more than 100,000 Israelis already hold a German passport, and this figure increases by more than 7,000 every year along an accelerating trajectory. According to German officials, more than 70,000 such passports have been granted since 2000.
In addition to Germany, there are more than one million Israelis with other foreign passports at the ready in case life in Israel deteriorates. One of the most appealing countries for Israelis contemplating emigration, as well as perhaps the most welcoming, is the United States. Currently more than 500,000 Israelis hold US passports with close to a quarter million pending applications.
During the recent meetings in Washington DC between Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu’s delegation and Israel’s US agents, assurances were reportedly given by AIPAC officials that if and when it becomes necessary, the US government will expeditiously issue American passports to any and all Israeli Jews seeking them.
Israeli Arabs need not apply.
AIPAC also represented to their Israeli interrogators that the US Congress could be trusted to approve funding for arriving Israeli Jews “to be allocated substantial cash resettlement grants to ease transition into their new country.”
Apart from the Israeli Jews who may be thinking of getting an “insurance passport” for a Diaspora land, there is a similar percentage of Jews worldwide who aren't going to make aliyah. According to Jonathan Rynhold, a Bar Ilan professor specializing on U.S.-Israel relations, Jews may be safer in Teheran than Ashkelon these days—until Israel or the USA starts bombing Iran.
Interviews with some of those who either helped conduct the above noted studies or have knowledge of them, identify several factors that explain the Israeli rush for foreign passports, some rather surprising, given the ultra-nationalist Israeli culture.
The common denominator is unease and anxiety, both personal and national, with the second passport considered a kind of insurance policy “for the rainy days visible on the horizon,” as one researcher from Eretz Acheret explained.
Other factors include:
The fact that two or three generations in Israel has not proven enough to implant roots where few if any existed before. For this reason Israel has produced a significant percentage of “re-immigration” — a return of immigrants or their descendants to their country of origin which Zionist propaganda to the contrary notwithstanding, is not Palestine.
Fear that religious fanatics from among the more than 600,000 settlers in the West Bank will create civil war and essentially annex pre-1967 Israel and turn Israel more toward an ultra-fascist state.
Centripetal pressures within Israeli society, especially among Russian immigrants who overwhelmingly reject Zionism. Since the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989, some one million Jews have come to Israel from the former Soviet Union, enlarging the country's population by 25 percent and forming the largest concentration in the world of Russian Jews.But today, Russian Jews comprise the largest group emigrating from Israel and they have been returning in droves for reasons ranging from opposition to Zionism, discrimination, and broken promises regarding employment and “the good life” in Israel.
Approximately 200,000 or 22% of Russians coming to Israel since 1990 have so far returned to their country. According to Rabbi Berel Larzar, who has been Russia’s chief Rabbi since 2000, "It's absolutely extraordinary how many people are returning. When Jews left, there was no community, no Jewish life. People felt that being Jewish was an historical mistake that happened to their family. Now, they know they can live in Russia as part of a community and they don’t need Israel."
No faith in or respect for Israeli leaders, most of whom are considered corrupt.
Feelings of anxiety and guilt that Zionism has hijacked Judaism and that traditional Jewish values are being corrupted.
The increasing difficulty of providing coherent answers to one’s children, as they become more educated and aware of their family history, and indeed honesty to oneself, on the question of why families from Europe and elsewhere are living on land and in homes stolen from others who obviously are local and did not come from some other place around the World.
The recent growing appreciation, for many Israelis, significantly abetted by the Internet and the continuing Palestinian resistance, of the compelling and challenging Palestinians' narrative that totally undermines the Zionist clarion of the last century of “A Land without a People for a People without a Land.'
Fear mongering of the political leaders designed to keep citizens supporting the government’s policies ranging from the Iranian bomb, the countless ‘Terrorists” seemingly everywhere and planning another Holocaust, or various existential threats that keep families on edge and concluding that they don’t want to raise their children under such conditions.
Explaining that he was speaking as a private citizen and not as a member of Democrats Abroad Israel, New York native Hillel Schenker suggested that Jews who come to Israel "want to make sure that they have the possibility of an alternative to return whence they came." He added that the "insecurities involved in modern life, and an Israel not yet living at peace with any of its neighbors, have also produced a phenomenon of many Israelis seeking a European passport, based on their family roots, just in case."
Gene Schulman, a Senior American-Jewish fellow at the Switzerland-based Overseas American Academy, put it even more drastically, emphasizing that all Jews are "scared to death of what is probably going to become of Israel even if the U.S. continues its support for it."
Many observers of Israeli society agree that a major, if unexpected recent impetus for Jews to leave Palestine has been the past three months of the Arab Awakening that overturned Israel’s key pillars of regional support.
According to Layal, a Palestinian student from Shatila Camp, who is preparing for the June 5th “Naksa” march to the Blueline in South Lebanon: “What the Zionist occupiers of Palestine saw from Tahir Square in Cairo to Maroun al Ras in South Lebanon has convinced many Israelis that the Arab and Palestinian resistance, while still in its nascence, will develop into a massive and largely peaceful ground swell, such that no amount of weapons or apartheid administration can insure a Zionist future in Palestine. They are right to seek alternative places to raise their families.”
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Rehmat
05. Jun, 2011
TyFrankly, I am glad to know that many Israeli Jews took Helen Thomas' advice seriously.
“Tell them to get the hell out of Palestine. Remember these people are occupied and it’s their land”
http://rehmat1.wordpress.com/2010/06/10/helen-thomas-tell-them-to-get-the-hell-out-of-palestine/
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Ken O'Keefe
05. Jun, 2011
Excellent.
TJP
Mary Edwards
06. Jun, 2011
Flight is the only solution for a people who have predicated themselves upon a concept of being the chosen people and so have alienated themselves from, not only the Palestinians, but themselves…
rocco
06. Jun, 2011
Israhell is nothing but a very tiny kitty litter box, a parasite feasting on american tax payers. and living off a myth.
Shanti
06. Jun, 2011
Well…leave. But remember your part in the crimes committed to the arabs… Unless you pay for it, you repay your debt you have in their in blood…you will be kept in a spiral of blood… You are and have been condemning yourselves….again…
ANDREA
06. Jun, 2011
Now they are leaving? Why didnt they leave if they knew since 1948 or before that this was the land of the Palestinians, however they lived there for convenience and now they want to live in another country to keep doing the same? I do not believe in jews, they will never change, I suggest they get a passport and live in the moon by themselves, they dont have a place on earth….
Rabbit
06. Jun, 2011
This is really great news and is to be rejoiced over. It is tempting to see a possible peaceful end to the Zionist experiment in these informative statistics and anecdotes. However that would be to ignore the extremists who have control of the country and its military and direction generally and the even more dangerous lobbies living not in Israel but hestled like serpents in the countries of the West which give israel it's artificial existence.
Many may run and many will try to but the end will be decided by the worst among them who have ruled for much too long.
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Sandra
06. Jun, 2011
Not all Israeli Jews will leave Israel. The only way forward is to do what was done in South Africa. Crimes against humanity need to be recognised by both sides and there has to be an ethos of good will on both sides for there to be peace. Reconciliation is needed for all people to live without fear and hatred. It might be too early to think of this, but hate and retribution will not get the peaceful result most ordinary people want and need to bring up their children in a civilised, secular, democratic country where every one is treated equally.
abubaqar
06. Jun, 2011
while being happy at some of the news provided of these international killers and murderers going back to they countrys of origin, i feel sorry for those communitys who have to endure they crap for time to come!
personally, i wish for all jews to migrate back to israel so that when the time of restitution comes in palestine, we muslims wish to pay them back for the inhumanity,wickedness and mayhem they loosed upon the muslims there in line with the prophetic prediction " OH MUSLIM,SERVANT OF ALLAH,COME AND KILL THE JEW HIDING BEHIND ME".
personally i do not believe that these other countrys they will run to will give them sanctuary at this time, the indigenous people will realise who the troublemakers in the world are and will turn on them and kill them, rightly so because this evil race did that to all races in the world and now it will be payback time.
evil is what they believe and practiced,evil is the end for them the work of they own hands and eternal damnation!
Outraged
06. Jun, 2011
NOOOOO! NOOOOOO! We don't want them to come here. We have enough of them already. They own the media and govt., what else do they want?
Name (required)
06. Jun, 2011
Type your comment here…Sure they want to leave, but what sane person would ever want such people?
Anthony Clifton
06. Jun, 2011
The Children of Israel have NEVER BEEN "JEWISH"….ever. "THE JEWISH" [ASHKENAZIM -PROSELYTES to TALMUDIC JUDAISM] can KNOW THE TRUTH…and just stop being JEWISH!!! REAL SIMPLE. STOP BELIEVING "JEWISH MYTHS"….LIES!!! The Children of Israel have never been "Jewish". See WILLIE MARTIN FILES OUTLINE – In Search of Isaacs Children ….FACTS ARE FACTS…Even if the "Money Changers & Pharisees hate the truth. NO ONE has to be "JEWISH" on planet Earth. [ http://disc.yourwebapps.com/discussion.cgi?disc=149495;article=137256;]
john petrino
06. Jun, 2011
Type your comment here. I am happy those chosen murderers are nervous about their future.look what they have done to palistine,iraq,lebanon.they will pay for this. however I pity the countries that will host them.you know what the parasite does to the host..
Qais
07. Jun, 2011
Every one tends to his/her homeland !
SlackerSlayer
07. Jun, 2011
I hope we tax payers are not stuck giving those that demand to move to the USA their homestead to live on. There are Americans that can use it far better, like the natives that have been stepped on their entire existence since the European invaders arrived,,, and a lot being the hidden factor, jew slave owners, traders, and killers. I can see why they didn't want their presence in our history books known. Funny daptcha '8FU2'
Lee Luttrell
07. Jun, 2011
We currently give them 3 billion a year in foreign aid. Now they want more money to LEAVE!! Just goes to show these people "get you" coming AND going.
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walt235
07. Jun, 2011
Jooz deserve what happens to them! No American passports should be given to the parasites! Let the Arabs destroy the Satanic jooz! Good riddance!
Jews stay the hell out of USA
07. Jun, 2011
We don't want these bastards in the USA they have ruined the USA we want all of them here now removed! By the hands of the gods we will get rid of these evil people!
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joann
08. Jun, 2011
please, no ,,,,
we do not want them in Europe. Can't they go to ,em, somewhere else?
Europe is devastated by them as is, each country hijacked in its own right.
otAnObot
08. Jun, 2011
Oh yes, by all means give them MORE TAXPAYERS MONEY for "resettlement."
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Anonymous
13. Jun, 2011
[...] Originally Posted by Carl Rogers To me it appears they're using American blood, money and weaponry to take full dominion over the whole Earth for Jewish rule….. That certainly appears to be the plan. Usually nations are very particular about their exactly where their borders are. Israel doesn't like people to talk about where her borders are . . . Almost as if the Israelis are intending to turn the world into Occupied Territory a la Gaza. After say, another false flag attack in America leading to WW3 in the middle-east. Fortunately, the whole ZOG World Order plan isn't going down as hoped. Either their tricks haven't work nearly as well as they expected, or there are inside people thwarting them, maybe infighting, or some combination. Conservatives are getting tired of the wars. We're so broke by now anyway, there's not much more we can really do. It seems like every other weekend you hear about thousands of angry 'protesters' gathering at Israeli borders. The UN is voting on a Palestinian state in September. They've lost a lot of control in Egypt. The border with Gaza has been partially reopened, and seeing as how the country is somewhat up for grabs at the moment, there's no telling what could happen. Maybe that's why so many Israelis are getting 2nd passports. [...]
A Jew
22. Jun, 2011
Unfortunately, the wish of Israeli Jews to leave is not generally accompanied by any sense of guilt or responsibility for what Jewish colonialism and militarism has done to the Palestinians. I actually think that it would be better for most of them (except recent arrivals who have somewhere to literally go back to) to stay and become useful citizens of a non-racist state that gives equal rights to all its citizens. In other words, a State of Palestine, not a State of Israel. Though many Palestinians will be, understandably and justifiably bitter because of their experiences at the hands of the Jewish State of Israel and though Jews have grounds for fearing retribution, I hope and believe that Palestinians are, on the whole, capable of a far higher moral standard than their oppressors. If that is not the case then, before sowing the wind the Zionists should have thought about the whirlwind that might result from their behaviour.
The first task of the new State (on the whole territory of the Palestine Mandate of 1919) will be the Right to Return. Once Palestininans who wish to exercise that right have done so and the damage caused by the Israeli military and settlers to the Occupied Territories has been restored, then Jews fleeing persecution can again be given the right to seek a haven in Palestine. That timescale might give an incentive to Jews to help Palestinians recover from what they have suffered over the past 63 years.
salgal
17. Jul, 2011
Is there a way to push them off the earth entirely? Otherwise we might ship them to the moon, they will have no one to persecute, and maybe the environment will take care of things. in any event, get rid of them.
A.Wosni
31. Jul, 2011
Type your comment here…
It's an established fact that Zionism is a colonialist ideology, and it's good news that the Zionist state may be about to disintegrate. But 1. it should not be ignored that it was European antisemitism which gave a jewish mass basis to Zionism and that Zionism and Jewishness are totally different things even if all Jews were Zionists which is far from being the case. Therefore it is distgusting to read some comments here which are antisemitic, i.e. racist, instead of being anti-zionist, i.e. political. Antisemitism is and was the oxygen for Zionism.
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17. Jul, 2012
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