Wednesday, June 29, 2005

The memories of an Egyptian Jew-eposide 2

Ok today I will complete presenting the memories of Mr.Youssef Darwish ,The oldest Egyptian Jew alive . I will speak about his memories concerning three important points : the modern Exodus from Egypt , the Egyptian Jews and Zionism and claims of mistreatment. "You can read the first part here"

I will start with the last point : The Egyptian Jews and Zionism ,first Zionism means supporting and believing in the existence of the State of Israel as home nation for all Jews ,It comes from Zion ,a mountain in Jerusalem and Now I will stop at here and go for the core thing.
According to Darwish :
  • Most Egyptian Jews didn't support the Zionism and evidence for that as their majority didn't go to Israel after the modern Exodus
  • The Egyptian Government before the revolution was lazy and reactive and didn't see the Zionist danger except after it was too late 'well also after the revolution ,no difference believe me, we respect the legacy'
Examples of Egyptian Government strange acts as he described it:
 1) Before the 1948 war,a minority of Jews formed the Egyptian Zionist Club and the Government at that time provided protected ,no this only but it fought anti-Zionist Club made by other Egyptian Jews !!!!!!!
2)The Zionist wanted to Rent Sinai to become a part from Israel from Abbas II in the beginning of the 20th century
The Mistreatment Claims
There are some claims from some Jews 'mostly Zionists' who said that they were mistreated because of their Religion and that's why they left Egypt in the 20th century as they claim
Well these all are big fat lies and here an Egyptian Jew who practiced his life freely ,yes he went to Jail three times but for being a communist not as a Jew
There were never mistreated even the Zionists from them ,and here is a good proof
In 1948 ,Mr. Darwish went to the Highkstep prison in Egypt 'special for political prisoners' in the charge of being communist,he stayed in the dirty cells with other communists while the Zionists were staying in clean cells with Cookers ,fridges and radio , not that only they were even let go to their home on Thursdays to sleep with wives well I don't see mistreatment here
The Second Exodus :
It happened on two waves ,the first one happened when few minorities from Low classes of Jews and foreigner Jews who came from Europe in WW2 left Egypt to Israel after 1948.
The second wave ,the greater one was from 1954 to 1962 ,the majority of the Jewish Minority left Egypt ,the high and middle Class who had the money went to Europe especially to France and to the US ,the low classes went to Israel
The reasons were not for  mistreatment more than economical ,and it wasn't for Jews only but for all Egyptians, the nationalization policies hurt a lot of rich Jews who couldn't stand it so they left with they could get quickly before Nasser could get it
The Jew and the Muslim Brotherhood founder
An interesting tale was told by Darwish in the show that his father was a friend to the founder of the banned Muslim Brotherhood group ,and he used to visit him in his house in New Halmia
A little fact : Mr.Darwish fought Israel and Zionism in his way ,the Egyptian lawyer was a special defender for the Palestinian rights in worldwide forums
Last part which I really love
Mona : Why didn't you leave Egypt like the others ?

Mr.Darwish : I am Crazy
Aren't we all Crazy with the love of Egypt !!??

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