"Throughout
the middle ages and on into the fifteenth century, large Jewish communities
emerged in Spain, Italy, Germany, France and Eastern Europe, especially Poland
and Russia.
Governments
throughout Europe barred Jews from owning land, so few were farmers. They
gravitated to commercial and industrial occupations with trade skills.
At
the fringe of society and business, Jews were storekeepers, peddlers, artisans,
bakers, tailors, small factory owners and middlemen merchants.
In
Dr Sowell's research, he found out that the historical prejudice against Jewish
businessmen has also been experienced by other successful trading groups:
"Where middlemen are ethnically distinct group - the Chinese in South east
Asia, the east Indians in Uganda, and the Ibos in Nigeria - that ethnic group
is hated by the masses who deal with them." (From
THE JEWISH PHENOMENON book Introduction, page 17 by STEVEN SILBIGER)
CONCLUSION
The
Jews today have their own state of Israel, a world super power and a nuclear
nation, same with the Chinese and the Indians.
Igbos
need Biafra to fight back and protect themselves from the animosity, hatred and
envy that success always attracts or we go extinct but the latter is not and
must not be an option.
Written
by:
Mazi
Chukwudi Peace
For:
Abuja State Media
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