Jewish Lives Do Not Matter in Yemen
Yemeni Jews, like those in other Arab countries, have suffered wave after wave of persecution. The Houthis, whose base is in Saada, embedded that attitude in their slogan, “Death to America, death to Israel, damnation to the Jews.”
“About all that remain of Yemen’s ancient and once vibrant Jewish community are untended cemeteries, dramatic hillside ghetto villages of thousand-year-old stone houses and a few people like Abraham Jacob and his extended family.”
This is one reason Israel exists. This is one reason for the Zionist dream, a Jewish homeland, Jewish self-determination, Jews protecting themselves.
It’s time to bring them home to Israel.
With the Houthis dominating the country and the United States and Britain closing their embassies, the population has seldom been so threatened and had so few protectors.
NYTIMES.COM|BY ROD NORDLAND