Biden Should Look to Israeli Airlifts to Bring Americans in Afghanistan Home
Their success shows that such rescue missions are possible.
by Steve Postal
September 3, 2021, 10:03 PM
In the wake of the death of 13 American service members, President Biden has proudly hailed our exit from Afghanistan as “one of the biggest airlifts in history.” But, by Biden’s own account, while 5,500 Americans were exfiltrated, at least 100-200 Americans are still left behind. So, as great as that last airlift may have been, it looks like the Biden administration needs another one.
To get these remaining Americans out, the Biden administration should be inspired by past rescue missions by Israel to save Jews from hostile lands. Assuming that the Biden administration is willing to get those remaining Americans out, past experience shows that such rescue missions are possible.
Operation On Eagles Wings A.K.A. Operation Magic Carpet (1949-1950)
From June 1949 to September 1950, Israel airlifted approximately 49,000 Yemeni Jews to Israel. This airlift was facilitated by Alaska Airlines, which had also facilitated the Berlin Airlift of the 1940s and who are also currently aiding in the Afghanistan evacuation.
Yemen’s ancient Jewish community spans 2,600 years, and Yemen’s Jews faced a heightened wave of discrimination and violence against them starting in the beginning of the 20th century. In 1932, a pogrom in Aden injured 25 Jews. Twenty-two shops were looted, nine homes were broken into, and a synagogue was desecrated following false rumors that Jews had defiled a mosque. In early December 1947, in a larger pogrom in Aden precipitated by anger about the United Nations Partition Plan for Palestine adopted the month before, rioters killed 82 Jews, looted 106 out of 170 Jewish-owned shops, destroyed 220 Jewish houses, and destroyed the Grand Synagogue of Aden and three other synagogues. Today, thanks in part to recent persecution by the Houthis, there are only six Jews left in Yemen.
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