IN DOUBT
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Monday, January 31, 2011
My Hands Are Cold And Achy
TUNISIAN JEWS IN DOUBT
By Jacques Benillouche
If the Jews in Tunisia are very exuberant France, they are extremely discreet in Tunisia. Of 120,000 members who were installed for several generations, they are more than 1,000 to live in Djerba in a medieval anachronism and 500
Tunis . The Jews of the capital, with the exception of the elderly in nursing homes, are composed mostly of businessmen and wealthy industrialists who backed the country's economic dynamics. Events related to the fall of the regime of Ben Ali remake about them because the future of this small community is torn by doubt.
A life in the quiet
the symbol of Judaism Tunisian
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Tunisian Arabs have never shown aggression towards a minority who had reached the maximum number of 120,000 souls. Some minor incidents were punctuated the quiet life This community was discreet but individual exceptions. Yet the Jews left freely, voluntarily, their homeland, so that nothing would be required. With the arrival of French, they had chosen because it represented the colonial emancipation, opening to Western culture and the possibility of social advancement through the French schools. The independence of Tunisia in 1956, which followed closely the establishment of the State of Israel in 1948, created a dilemma because some, petty bourgeoisie, had decided to join the colonists in France while a minority poor and uneducated was the choice of "Promised Land" with the Zionist pioneers. It was not without difficulties and sacrifices for the integration of disparate populations in Israel was difficult especially as they were sent to people in arid and isolated from the across the country and to make a desert bloom they were unable to master. Those who remained in their hometown were suspected of sympathy with Zionist even if they had given pledges vis-à-vis the Tunisian nationalism. Antisemitism however, remained anchored in some close supporters of the Islamists. Thus, the opposition party PDP
(Democratic Progressive Party) not hesitate to disrupt the consensus of controversial statements. Its secretary general of the opposition passionaria Ben Ali, Maya Jribi, asked the Tunisian government to ban the access of Jewish pilgrims to the synagogue in Djerba La Ghriba and deny Israeli, even from the country, visit Tunisia. She joined and racist ideas of the Islamist party
nnahdha
The Jewish community found itself in a door-to-fake today because of excessive positions of its own leaders. The few Jewish leaders, interested in honors, had made many statements of vassalage clumsy against a regime that thought eternal "President Ben Ali is the leader most capable of ensuring progress and prosperity of Tunisia, thanks in particular to his insightful vision in managing the affairs of the country and its ability to ensure its future, making us enjoy her political avant-garde ". The same sycophants who were eager to act of submission have been, for some, the first to leave the country for France in the fall of the dictator, leaving their helpless plight community.
Men Paper, too, never miss an opportunity to demonstrate their political incompetence when they leave their synagogue. Indeed, the Grand Rabbi of Tunisia went out of his role strictly worship on the day of the feast of Yom Kippur, the Day of Atonement, to draw a portrait of Ben Ali and rave to start from the top of his desk a call at President to stand for president in 2014. Clumsiness or overcharging? In both cases these comments are inexcusable because they mix the political struggle a Jewish community depoliticized and unobtrusive. Moreover, fearing the consequences of a declaration inappropriate, the chief rabbi in Israel who was present at the time of the Revolution announced that it
join his congregation because its proximity to the former regime could cause it wrongs. The shortsighted policy of significant risks plunging the Jews clung to their future in Tunisia, in fear because the utterances certainly redound on them. What was unthinkable a few weeks ago is timely, since some are considering leaving the country for fear of indiscriminate violence on the part of extremists to Ennahdha, the Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt. The terrorist threat from the Sahel is likely to find a new breeding ground in southern areas of the country where Al Qaeda threat tourists and Jewish tourists in particular.
"a frightening situation and lived in fear of reprisals." But it was a good war to instill fear and convince the remaining reluctant to leave the country, not necessarily elsewhere to Israel.
The Israeli government was keen to take action if the situation worsened. He took the official visit of the Foreign Minister Michele Alliot-Marie, to consider the aid of France to receive temporary Tunisian Jews in transit to Israel. The number is much lower for those who jump on it but it will grow as vengeful statements will be released. Amr Moussa, secretary general of the Arab League, made an announcement that targeted indirectly Jews who had chosen the camp of Ben Ali "Arab citizens are in a state of anger and frustration unprecedented " implying that Jewish citizens had not demonstrated a good understanding. The problem affects a few hundred individuals, but the symbol is great if Tunisia were to be emptied of the last witnesses of the presence for more than 2000 years of a vibrant community that had its heyday .
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