Talk:Operation Magic Carpet (Yemen)

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Some problems here. Palestine Post of Mar 6, 1949 says "Magic Carpet winds up" referring to 4,500 Yemenites being brought to Israel over 3 months. The first mention was on Feb 22, 1949. This pre-dates the start of the operation given on this page. Of course there were two larger groups brought later, but even for those "secret operation that was not made public until several months after it was over" is not true. The intention to bring them was reported on April 8, 1949, and progress reports made regularly over the following months. On Nov 8, 1949 there's a report of a larger airlift in progress (this is worth reading for the patronising tone, as if speaking about savages: "In Israel they sleep at first under the beds provided for them, for they do not understand the purpose of a bed"). These reports are notable in that they don't say that the Yemenites were escaping (as is the usual description given today). It is rather said that Israel "fulfils the dream" of the Yemenites and so on. Palestine Post is searchable at [2]. --Zero^talk 13:23, 20 March 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Most of them had never seen an aircraft before.

This common claim is completely unbelievable. It may be that they had never seen an aircraft up close before, but aircraft had been in the skies for several decades. I expect that it is an myth made plausible only by the patronising (some might say racist) way these people were seen by the "civilised" Westerners and Israelis. --Zero^talk 04:16, 27 January 2007 (UTC)

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