[colorado tanker]

Although more than 100 Jews died in Libyan pogroms in 1945,

Other than that Mrs. Lincoln, . . .

[ml/nj]

So here's a balancing paragraph from Wikipedia:

Some of the worst anti-Jewish violence occurred in the years following the liberation of North Africa by Allied troops. From November 5 to November 7, 1945, more than 140 Jews were killed and many more injured in a pogrom in Tripoli. The rioters looted nearly all of the city's synagogues and destroyed five of them, along with hundreds of homes and businesses. In June 1948, anti-Jewish rioters killed another 12 Jews and destroyed 280 Jewish homes. This time, however, the Libyan Jewish community had prepared to defend itself. Jewish self-defense units fought back against the rioters, preventing dozens of more deaths.

ML/NJ

[Psalm 144]

Come a little closer said the spider to the fly . . .

[NativeNewYorker]

Years ago, I used to hang out with a Berber ex-pat in NYC. One of the nicest guys I’ve ever known.

[algernonpj]

Libyan Berbers cherish shared history with Jews-Jews are welcome to return to the new Libya

Will you walk into my parlor said the spider Moslem Brotherhood to ...

[Cronos]

maybe the local berbers want their fellow compatriots who happened to be Jews back, but the Islamic Jihadis who are right now fighting Ghaddafi would like to then kill these returnees...

[Tailgunner Joe]

Libyan Jewish group recognizes rebels - 7/17/2011 - The World Organization of Libyan Jews, representing 200,000 former refugees, most of whom live in Israel, has officially recognized the Benghazi-based rebels – the Libyan National Transitional Council – as Libya’s legitimate government.

In a letter to Mustafa Abdul Jalil, head of the NTC, the Israeli president of WOLJ, Meir Kahlon, offered his organization’s support and assistance.

“We feel it is our obligation that Libya become a model state with freedom of thought and religion for all its citizens,” the letter stated, announcing the appointment of Dr. David Gerbi as WOLJ’s “legitimate representative.”

Gerbi, an Italian Jewish Jungian psychologist born in Tripoli in 1955, has made several trips to Libya in the past decade in attempts to negotiate reconstruction and reconciliation for the Libyan Jewish community that traces its origins to the third century BCE.

Last month, as the first Libyan Jew to publicly declare his backing for the NTC, he worked as a volunteer teaching methods for healing victims of post-traumatic stress syndrome in Bengazi’s Psychiatric Hospital.

“The world-wide community of Libyan Jews is proud that its son, David Gerbi, has made his way to Bengazi to provide humanitarian assistance on the ground to the brave people of that city,” the letter said.