For the second time in less than a century, people of a faith born in the land of Israel are facing genocide. But unlike the Jews after the Holocaust, there is no homeland for the Middle East’s persecuted Christians to take refuge in. They are already home—and it will take a joint effort by Christians and Muslims to preserve that home from extinction.
More than 3.2 million Jews have immigrated to Israel since the creation of the Jewish state after World War II, including 49,000 Yemenite Jews rescued during Operation Magic Carpet in 1949. Back then, in the wake of the Holocaust, the newly created United Nations agreed that the Jewish people needed a sovereign state where they could live and thrive.
Clearly that need is still keenly felt. On March 21, 2016, seventeen Jews and a 600-year-old Torah were airlifted from Yemen as the Jewish Agency conducted its final mission of bringing Yemenite Jews home to Israel.
“This chapter in the history of one of the world’s oldest Jewish communities is coming to an end,” declared agency chairman Natan Sharansky, “but Yemenite Jewry’s unique, 2,000-year-old contribution to the Jewish people will continue in the State of Israel.”
Source: Exodus Is Not The Answer: Why Christianity Must Be Preserved in the Middle East – Philos Project