Judarna i Yemen räddas undan förföljelser (uppdaterad)

2500 år av judisk bosättning i Yemen är nu över skriver Jerusalem Post i sin ledare. ( Yemen's Jews. The End )
De flesta av judarna i Yemen flyttade till Israel 1950. Av de några hundra som lämnade kvar räddas nu de flesta undan förföljelser till USA.
Läs mera: Secret Mission Rescues Yemen's Jews (The Wall Street Journal)
"In all, about 60 Yemeni Jews have resettled in the U.S. since July; officials say another 100 could still come. There were an estimated 350 in Yemen before the operation began. Some of the remainder may go to Israel and some will stay behind, most in a government enclave."

Yemen's Jews. The End
"THE RESCUE illuminates an often overlooked aspect of the 60-year-plus Arab-Israel conflict. Whereas the Arab world has purposefully maintained the 700,000 or so Palestinian Arabs made homeless in the course of the 1948 war and their descendants as permanent refugees and political pawns, the State of Israel and world Jewry have worked hard to resettle a roughly equal number of Jewish refugees forced to flee Arab lands.
The behavior of Arab leaders toward their Jewish subjects after the creation of Israel was (with notable exceptions) characterized by scapegoating and marginalization culminating in mass exodus. In 1947, Arab rioters in Aden killed dozens of Jews to protest a two-state solution in Palestine. In 1949 and 1950 the bulk of Yemen's Jews, some 49,000 souls, were airlifted here in "Operation Magic Carpet." The broad Arab refusal to accept the legitimacy of Israel as a sovereign Jewish state is partly attributable to Arab attitudes toward their Jewish minorities. "