Why are Ukrainian Jews not willing to emigrate to Palestine?
Most Ukrainian Jews refuse to immigrate to occupied Palestine or stay in Ukraine or move to other countries.
In the days leading up to the Russian military operation in Ukraine, Tel Aviv officials made great efforts to relocate the country’s Jews to the occupied territories, so much so that Tel Aviv asked Moscow to establish a safe passage for Jews to leave. The Kievan government was accompanied by the summoning of the Israeli ambassador.
“Our message to the Ukrainian Jews has been very clear: Israel will always be their home and our gates to them will always be open, whether in normal times or not,” said Peninna Tamano Chateau, Israel’s Minister of Refugees. “In critical times.”
But according to Zionist Channel 13, in the wake of the war in Ukraine, most of the Jews living in the country, who number more than 200,000, have refused to travel to occupied Palestine and prefer to stay in Ukraine or travel to other countries.
“The position of the Ukrainian Jews is a major blow to the Zionist project and its promoters, and it emphasizes that” Israel is not a promised land for many Jews, “the Al-Youm website wrote in a note.
Opinion: Israel is not the Promised Land for many Jews in the world.
According to the memo, Ukrainian Jews say out loud that they are not captivated by Israeli temptations to immigrate to Palestine and do not explicitly see occupied Palestine as a safe haven for a secure and prosperous future for their children, given the escalating war in Ukraine. In these critical days, they do not want to leave their compatriots alone and run away.
“Who wants to travel to a land that is surrounded by hundreds of thousands of missiles and UAVs in the Middle East and sees ever-changing rules of conflict every day?” “Israel’s military superiority has clearly diminished, and major regional powers such as Iran have emerged, and the United States has seen successive defeats in Afghanistan, Iraq, Syria and Yemen.”
