This question is to my Israeli folks in the forum. To me Aliyah comes across a political Zionist agenda which clearly looks at increasing the population of "true Jews" in Israel.
Whether you like it or not, the book of Deutoronomy had a lot of contradictory stuff and if you are unbiased you should know that basing any judgment on such an old book without applying humanitarian thoughts is principally and morally wrong. I find some Jews equating Palestinians to Amelakites which is sadly disgusting as the Deutoronomy calls on to everyone to eliminate out of pure political agenda.
Before I state facts as to why Aliyah happens from an individual motive (the state motive of increasing Jewish population is very clear)
Reference:
Aliya Statistics
The Red circles represent where there is still small but prevalent presence of anti semitism. But if you really see, this along with the black circles are ones where Countries are doing badly economically (my mspaint fail :/)
So individual motivation (along with the prevalent notion of importance of Israel to Jews) is to have a better life in Israel economically - in a country which is progressing in all fields, especially science.
Now, this is where the contradiction comes - the State of Israel calls itself a parliamentary republic and as a "Jewish State" which is democratic. Slightly over 20% are Arabs who are Muslims. Jewish world population in Israel is 42% (which has increased considerably over the decades thanks to aliyah)
Now, if Israel is trying to bring back and reform the nation supposedly it was 3000 years ago (when borders were not clear, whether god was El or Yahweh was not clear - borders of Canaan are probably within Israel now) - would it not make sense to offer all its seeming notion of 13 tribes (assuming nobody converted, nobody intermarried), not just ones who are Jews? And how do you confirm it , genetically
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Also the clearly Zionist agenda of increasing Israeli population sidelining the minority population gives more impression of increasing inequality in the theist republic.
Here's a list of world population of Jews
America
Jewish
Country Population
Canada 375,000
United States 5,275,000
Total North America 5,650,000
Bahamas 300
Costa Rica 2,500
Cuba 500
Dominican Republic 100
El Salvador 100
Guatemala 900
Jamaica 300
Mexico 39,500
Netherlands Antilles 200
Panama 8,000
Puerto Rico 1,500
Virgin Islands 500
Other 300
Total Central America 54,700
Argentina 182,500
Bolivia 500
Brazil 95,800
Chile 20,600
Colombia 2,700
Ecuador 900
Paraguay 900
Peru 2,000
Suriname 200
Uruguay 17,600
Venezuela 12,200
Total South America 335,900
Total 6,040,600
Europe
Austria 9,000
Belgium 30,400
Bulgaria 2,000
Czech Republic 3,900
Denmark 6,400
Estonia 1,900
Finland 1,100
France 485,000
Germany 120,000
Greece 4,500
Hungary 48,800
Ireland 1,200
Italy 28,500
Latvia 10,000
Lithuania 3,300
Luxembourg 600
Netherlands 30,000
Poland 3,200
Portugal 500
Romania 9,800
Slovakia 2,600
Slovenia 100
Spain 12,000
Sweden 15,000
United Kingdom 293,000
Other 100
Total Eur.Union 27 1,122,900
Gibraltar 600
Norway 1,200
Switzerland 17,700
Other 0
Total other W. Europe 19,500
Belarus 16,800
Moldova 4,200
Russia 210,000
Ukraine 74,000
Total FSU Republics 305,000
Bosnia-Herzegovina 500
Croatia 1,700
Macedonia 100
Serbia 1,400
Turkey 17,700
Other 100
Total other East Europe and Balkans 21,500
Total 1,468,900
Asia
Israel 5,287,200
West Bank 282,000
Total Israel and West Bank 5,569,200
Armenia 0
Azerbaijan 6,500
Georgia 3,300
Kazakhstan 3,800
Kyrgyzstan 700
Tajikistan 0
Turkmenistan 200
Uzbekistan 4,700
Total former USSR in Asia 19,200
China 1,500
India 5,000
Iran 10,500
Japan 1,000
Korea, South 100
Philippines 100
Singapore 300
Syria 100
Taiwan 100
Thailand 200
Yemen 200
Other 200
Total other Asia 19,300
Total 5,607,700
Africa
Egypt 100
Ethiopia 100
Morocco 2,800
Tunisia 1,000
Other 0
Total North Africa 4,000
Botswana 100
Congo D.R. 100
Kenya 400
Namibia 100
Nigeria 100
South Africa 71,000
Zimbabwe 400
Other 300
Total other Africa 72,500
Total 76,500
Oceania
Australia 107,500
New Zealand 7,500
Other 100
Total 115,100
You will note that most Jews are settled in "non enemy states" (aka non Muslim states except may be Turkey and some parts of Eastern Europe). So how is Aliyah justified? Especially in today's modern age which is (especially the West) liberalist and tending towards secularism.
