Libya's Jews demand Tripoli to facilitate their return back home
Libya, Politics, 7/23/2004

A gathering for Libya's Jews called on the Libyan government to facilitate the return back " of the Libyan Jews" who were forced to migrate after and after the launching of September revolution in 1969.

The representatives of the Libyan Jews in Britain called in a press conference held in London for establishing a Jewish - Arab partnership on the ground of mutual interests and to forget the hatreds of the past.

They explained that Libya had more than 60,000 Jews that were mostly forced to migrate especially after 1970. Worthy mentioning that one Israeli woman parliamentarian for the ruling right Likud party called by the beginning of the current year on the Libyan leader Muammar al-Qathafi to permit the Israelis who descend from Libyan origins to visit their country.

The Israeli parliamentarian Jila Jamlil in a statement to the Israeli daily Ma'ariv issued on January 6th addressed al-Qathafi by saying:" we ask you to take a historical decision and to take the same step taken by Morocco in implementation of coexistence traditions between Muslims and Jews in North Africa and to permit the Israelis coming from Libya to visit their country."

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