Most Middle Eastern countries have indigenous Jewish communities who are far from threatened with anything like extermination. In fact **Iran** has the largest communities of Jews outside Israel in the region:
Are you really that ignorant of history, or just that disingenuous? It’s true that prior to 1948 there was a substantial population of Sephardi Jews in the Arab and Muslim world. They lived as dhimmis, official second class citizens. Bernard Lewis said that Islam may never have treated Jews as badly as Christian Europe at its worst, but it also never treated them as well as Christian Europe at its best. The major distinction is that there were fewer incidents of murder. As events surrounding the establishment of the State of Israel came to a head, acts of terror and threats of violence against the Jewish communities in the Muslim world reached a fever pitch, at least 750,000 Sephardim fled the Muslim countries, with billions of dollars in assets seized when they left. Sephardi Jews are the unmentioned refugees of the Middle East. Unlike the Arabs, who kept Palestinians in camps and refused them citizenship, Israel more or less successfully absorbed the Sephardi refugees. Until a large number of Russian Jews immigrated to Israel, a majority of Israel’s Jews were either born in Muslim countries or their parents & grandparents were. The only reason why Iran has the 2nd largest community of Jews in the Middle East is because Jews were expelled or fled from all the other Muslim states, and the current Jewish population of Iran is a fraction of what it was prior to 1948. While thousands of Jews may remain in Iran, most Persian Jews have long since left Iran and more Iranian Jews live in California than in Iran.
BTW, I think it was Supreme Leader Khamenei who said that a nuclear exchange with Israel would be okay because while only some Muslims would die, nearly all Israeli Jews would die.
