For beardedbruce:

The Palestinians have suffered under the repressive Arab policies of not allowing them to settle elsewhere, and keeping them as second ( or lower) class non-citizens.

There would be no refugee problem if Israel had not chased those who became refugees from their villages (often at gunpoint... see the Nakba link in my 18 May 04 - 09:21 PM post). The refugees are Israel's responsibility and no one else's. Trying to foist responsiblity for the problem on the governments of other countries solves nothing. And it does not in any way address the problem of the Palestinians in the West Bank, Gaza, and East Jerusalem. Those people are being kept by the government of Israel as non-citizens with no status as human beings whatever.

Nerd:

I'll have some more information about Naeim Giladi in a little while, but I wanted to address this one now...

In fact, it is tended by one man, (not "Iraqi Muslims"). That man is paid to do so by the remaining Jews, who have not left.

The man who tends the synagogue is being paid, but the article also says this: "but his family has been close to the synagogue's leaders for generations". It does not specify that those prior generations were being paid. Any speculation that they were would be just that... speculation.