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 Posted: Tue Aug 26, 2003 12:32 am Post subject: Re: Jewish Immigrant Flees 'Hell' In Israel |
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Abu-Alwafa
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| Posted: Tue Aug 26, 2003 3:02 am Post subject: Jewish Immigrant Flees 'Hell' In Israel |
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In the Name of Allah, Most Gracious, Most Merciful.
All praise and thanks are due to Allah, and peace and blessings be upon His
Messenger.
Jewish Immigrant Flees 'Hell' In Israel
By Hadi Yahmid, IOL Correspondent
PARIS, August 25 (IslamOnline.net) - Leaving Israel's Ben Gurion airport for
Paris, Alan Hadad had only one thing in mind, never to be back.
"Now I can lead a new life," 30-year-old Hadad, a Jew of Moroccan origin,
said with a sigh of relief after his plane took off from Tel Aviv
Paris-bound.
"Although I was not an active member of the Jewish student union in France,
I was immersed in a family and social milieu to be a true Jew with deep
affiliation to Israel which we were all concerned about protecting," he told
IslamOnline.net.
He remembered how singing Hatikvah (hope), the national anthem of Israel,
was a source of joy in his get-togethers with family members and fellow
Jews.
Hadad recalled that he always considered that making aliya - the Jewish word
for immigration - was nothing but a matter of time.
That is why after finishing his studies at the Sorbonne in 2001, he accepted
an immigration offer made by a Jewish Agency official to fresh Jewish
graduates in France.
But after an advice from his father, Hadad agreed to a voluntary work in
Israel, a place that had long etched into his mind with idealistic scenes of
long magnificent coasts and bustling night clubs.
"My father advised me to apply for the temporary immigration project which
allows a timeframe voluntary work in Israel to see how I would adapt."
Hadad signed for Magen David (The Star of David), a humanitarian
organization with noble goals as the Jewish official put it.
In January 2002, Hadad packed up and left for Israel, where he joined the
Magen David unit in Khudeira town, to the north of Tel Aviv.
After a nine-day training course, he joined hands in rescue operations all
over the central area, which is called the Sharon Coast.
"It was as beautiful as calm my first days and I spent my nighttime in Tel
Aviv's discotheques in the south and Haifa in the north."
But the honeymoon was over to a new nightmare of violence in which Hadad was
a witness.
During my training, six Israelis were killed and dozen others injured when a
Palestinian gunman opened fire at a wedding party on January 17, he
recalled.
"Our organization members were on the scene, but my training director
refused to tell me what had happened, only saying 'you will get used to such
incidents'."
'Familiar'
As attacks by Palestinian resistance groups on the area increased, Hadad
became more involved in the rescue works active after every operation.
"The scene of bodies had become familiar to me, and with every attack we
began collecting corpses and body parties in special bags."
Ready wear the red jacket at any time after a call from the Israeli army,
Hadad recalled, "it was a horrible cycle of unabated violence and collecting
bodily parts that made me bored of this inferno."
After a fresh attack left 19 people killed and 120 injured on March 27, the
idea of fleeing this hell started haunting Hadad.
"I fainted that day as we searched among rocks for charred bodies," he said.
"It was a vicious cycle of violence with no outlet for hopes. I began asking
myself such questions as did I came here to collect corpses?' " Hadad said.
According to figures released by Israel's Central Bureau of Statistics (CBS)
on August, immigration to Israel was down by 27% in the first half of 2002,
as the Palestinian Intifada to Israeli occupation further flared up.
Al-Aqsa Intifada flared up in the occupied Palestinian territories after a
provocative visit by the then Israeli opposition leader Ariel Sharon to
Al-Aqsa compound, the third holiest shrine to Muslims.
As Hadad began to pack up his staff for leaving volatile Israel, he heard
that one of his French friends also working with a religious Jewish school
on a voluntary basis was killed when a Palestinian-driven car loaded with
explosives blew up alongside the bus in the town of Pardes Hanna in northern
Israel.
At least 14 Israelis were also killed and almost 48 others wounded, six of
them seriously.
Hadad wrote an e-mail to his father, thanking him for the sincere advice to
try voluntary work in Israel before accepting an immigration offer.
"I found that Israelis are going through a new inferno, and life here is
meaningless," he told his father before ending his adventure.
A unilateral truce declared by the main Palestinian resistance factions on
June 29 collapsed after the Israeli assassination of senior Hamas political
leader Ismail Abu Shanab.
The killing of Abu Shanab topped incessant Israeli violations of the truce,
with a Palestinian human rights organization registering 854 Israeli
violations of the truce in the last month alone.
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