Escaping al-Qaeda's clutches to serve in the IDF

[King_David]

Even Private Y.'s platoon comrades don't know that a year and a half ago, the 19-year-old Givati soldier was hiding his Judaism from al-Qaeda's reign of terror in Yemen.

Private Y., who was born and raised in a suburb of Yemeni capital Sana'a, is one of 13 children. He started receiving Jewish education at a very young age, attending a kindergarten and later schools of the Jewish community in his area, wearing a kippa and growing long payot. Five years ago, however, al-Qaeda took over Yemen and the lives of the Jews in the country changed completely.

http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-4636684,00.html

[King_David]

1. The French Jews , Ukrainian Jews and Yemini Jews - in 2015 the reason Israel exists.

When we landed here, I kissed the ground. It was a great joy. Salvation. I felt like I was in paradise. All of a sudden I could go outside with a kippa on my head without being afraid I'd be murdered.

[Scootaloo]

3. Too bad that the oppression has to be transferred to the Palestinians, though

[Ken Burch]

4. OK...but nothing that's happened to them justifies the West Bank occupation

Or the continued settlement expansion-both of which are nothing but Netanyahu's arrogant campaign to makesure Israel never becomes a nation living in peace.

BTW...you will agree, I hope, that if Netanyahu gets re-elected and actually succeeds in the pledge he made to prevent the creation of a Palestinian state, that the Israeli government will forever lose any moral right to ask its neighbors to recognize the state.

[R. Daneel Olivaw]

2. It sounds like Y has a lot in common with Palestinan children.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/113497344

I hope that the victim doesn't become the victimzer, but serving in the IDF... : shrug: