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Did the Mizrahi (Arab) Jews move to Israel out of choice or were they forced to?”
The evidence shows that Arab Jews were chased out of Arab lands by undercover Zionist terrorist groups such as the
Hagana so that those Jews from Arab lands could be used as tools in the Zionist colonial project in Palestine.
There are multiple pieces of evidence that corroborate this fact:
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Jews of North Africa and the Middle East were also needed “as cannon and demographic fodder” for the state, in the words of Hanna Braun, a Hagana member involved with bringing them into Israel, and so campaigns of misinformation, intimidation, and false-flag ‘Arab’ terrorism were used to get them to leave their homelands. A punitive exit tax and loss of original citizenship kept many from returning home once the deceit was exposed; and especially in the case of Iraq, there was little left of ‘home’ to which to return, as Israel’s manufactured exodus had effectively destroyed the ancient native Jewish community.
-Braun, Weeds, 82-83; and the author’s conversations with Ms. Braun in London, 2007.
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Empire Files: Israeli Army Vet’s Exposé - “I Was the Terrorist”
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Representatives of the various Jewish organizations succeeded in forming good relations with the Moroccan authorities, however they failed to convince them to allow the Jews to leave. Nevertheless, Israel had sent dozens of ‘Mossad’ officers to North Africa who carried out an operation ("operation frame") that entailed the illegal immigration of Moroccan Jews.
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Two activists in the Iraqi Zionist underground were found guilty by an Iraqi court for a number of the bombings, and were sentenced to death. Another was sentenced to life imprisonment and seventeen more were given long prison sentences.[2] The allegations against Israeli agents had "wide consensus" amongst Iraqi Jews in Israel.[3][4][5][6][7] Many of the Iraqi Jews in Israel who lived in poor conditions blamed their ills and misfortunes on the Israeli Zionist emissaries or Iraqi Zionist underground movement.
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However, at least one activist from the Zionist underground, Yosef Beit-Halahmi, did apparently carry out several terror attacks after the arrest of his comrades, in the hope of proving to the Iraqi authorities that the detainees were not involved in these actions. This is the first time someone involved in the episode is confirming that members of the Zionist underground did commit bombings in Baghdad.
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Interview with Reuven Abergel
Here an interview with an older Moroccan Jew living in Israel who describes how Jews were coerced to leave Morocco for Israel and how they were mistreated and used as human shields, placed on the border with the Palestinians/Jordanians during the wars.
In fact, many Arab countries tried to prevent the Jews from leaving by imposing punitive measures such as loss of citizenship and exit tax if the Jews chose to emigrate.
The following book will give you much more additional information about the topic:
Amazon.com: Ben-Gurion's Scandals: How the Haganah and the Mossad Eliminated Jews (9781893302402): Naeim Giladi: Books
Footnotes
[1] Weeds Don't Perish: Memoirs of a Defiant Old Woman: Hanna Braun: 9781859642641: Amazon.com: Books
[2] Migration of Moroccan Jews to Israel - Wikipedia
[3] 1950–51 Baghdad bombings - Wikipedia
[4] Now it can be told
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