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Thread ID: 15982 | Posts: 4 | Started: 2004-12-15
2004-12-15 08:46 | User Profile
Tue Dec 14, 1:59 PM ET Middle East - AP
By STEVE WEIZMAN, Associated Press Writer
JERUSALEM - After years of stagnation, American Jewish immigration to Israel is on the rise again, with the number of people arriving this year expected to approach a 20-year-high, immigration officials said Tuesday.
In the first 10 months of the year, 2,240 Americans exercised their right to automatic Israeli citizenship, compared with 2,385 for the whole of 2003, the Jewish Agency, a quasi-governmental organization, said.
With at least 450 more people expected to immigrate by the end of 2004, the annual total will easily surpass last year's, and could beat the 2,827 immigrants from the United States that came in 1984, officials said. Jewish Agency chief Sallai Meridor said the trend was expected to continue.
"I hope the day is not far off when we can speak of 5,000, hopefully even 10,000 immigrants every year," he said.
In the late 1960s and early 1970s ââ¬â following Israel's military success in the 1967 Middle East War ââ¬â between 6,000 and 8,000 Jewish Americans immigrated annually. The number plummeted following the 1973 war, when Israel was caught by surprise and suffered heavy casualties.
Officials at Tuesday's news conference cited various reasons for the resurgence, including success stories filtering home from earlier American immigrants, more work by American and Israeli Jewish organizations to encourage immigration, an expanded Israeli job market and the steep cost of U.S. universities.
Economist Pinchas Landau said the U.S. immigrants brought valuable education, professional experience and work ethics to Israel.
"They are the creme de la creme of the most advanced society in the world," he said, adding that within their first year, 70 percent of the newcomers had found jobs.
Meanwhile, Jewish immigration from France ââ¬â where anti-Semitic incidents are on the rise ââ¬â has reached its highest level in more than three decades.
The Jewish Agency said 2,236 French Jews immigrated between January and the end of October 2004, up from 1,860 during the same period in 2003 and higher than the full-year figure for any year since 1972 when 2,356 French immigrants arrived.
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2004-12-15 16:41 | User Profile
What he dosen't tell you is that more are now leaving that are comming in, specially from Russia, also many who have finished their military tour of duty and the better educated ones.
As you know the reason why the state of Israel wants to inport more people is to be able Number one: to occupy more Palestinian lands and Number two: to be able to send more people overseas to occupy new lands.
The Zionist for a long time now have been sending their people overseas in order to buy land and they are doing this with the help of the American taxpayer with all the billions of the so called "loans" that we have giving them EVERY YEAR for the past fifty years.
No one has been able to prove to me that those people have paid back one single cent of the so called "loans".
2004-12-15 22:19 | User Profile
Instead of viewing these immigrants as modern day pioneers enduring the hardships of a new land, one must keep in mind that they will have dual citizenship and be able to scamper back to the USA if things really get hot over there. But let us bid them adieu and farewell, and let us rejoice.
2004-12-16 00:09 | User Profile
Whether its 2400 or 6000, that many or more mezicans come across the border every DAY. Now if these numbers came from the rank and file of the likes of the big media, ADL, SPLC, ACLU etc... that would be a good thing.