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[Jay Weigel]

Nobody should quote the Daily Squaller as a "reliable" source. It's
like quoting Fox News, aka Faux Noise, or breitbart.com, otherwise known as
breitbarf.

Many of the American Jews emigrating to Israel are extremely orthodox
right-wingers who will settle on the West Bank, or try to. Bibi's kind of
people, and IMNSHO (and that of my dear Israeli friends who have lived
there since the 1960s) the people who are ruining the country.

On Sunday, March 1, 2015, Jim Guthrie <jguthrie at pipeline.com> wrote:

> I see nothing in these articles that indicate this is a sudden increase.
>
> In fact, by the time the US Newsweek gets to any numbers (way down the
> article) it's pointed out that some of these numbers are simply normal
> Zionist migration to Israel.
>
> Now if there's an article that doesn’t cherry-pick numbers, say to show a
> sudden change in the trend (rather than maybe a blip) I'd be interested.
>
> Of course, as the Caller article points out, it is in Israel's interest o
> attract as many immigrants as possible, because otherwise, Arabs will
> outnumber Jews in Israel by 2020 (though I suspect these estimates may
> include the West Bank).
>
> Of course, there are quite a few people who cite American ant-Semitism as
> well -- even in TEC we see people willing to excuse rockets out of Gaza
> because they think Israel "deserves it" or criticize Israel for not letting
> certain construction materials into Gaza when it turns out that stuff is
> used for terrorist tunnels.
>
> And indeed, some Jews move to Israel from the US -- because of
> anti-Semitism?
>
> Cheers,
> Jim
>