re thoroughly turkified or Arabicized
             except for religion, and the rest were Ashkenazi Jews, mainly old people" (84, Safran). The newcomers differed from the older inhabitants in almost every respect causing them to have a rough time in their adopted country. The next flock of immigrants came from Russia and brought over forty thousand Jewish immigrants between 1904 and 1914. It was prompted by the renewal of large-scale pogroms in Russia. Mostly they needed to escape the terror and oppression. "These pogroms renewed tsarist repression, and the dislocation of Jewish life caused by the beginning of the industrial revolution in Russia had set in motion the most massive Jewish migration in history" (86, Safran). Shortly after this, in 1918, 25,000 Jews fled from Russia. These people were predominately pioneers belonging to the Zionist-socialist movements and shared ideologies and aspirations of the second wave of immigrants. From 1923 to 1926, 60,000 people came from Poland who were mostly of the middle-class who intended to continue their occupation in their new country.
             With all of this immigration going on, the Jews were trying to escape the brutality of concentration camps that were set up to kill them.
             "Grey metal towers appeared on the plateau west of Nabatiyeh, Lebanon, within
             a couple of weeks after the Israel invasion. I first saw their ungainly silhouettes
             as I drove quickly from the coast, dodging in and out of the Israel military convoys
             that littered the narrow country road with armored vehicles, trucks, and jeeps. The
             long-legged towers suddenly cut an incongruous geometry against the large, smooth
             curve of blue sky; they were the same sort that stood around kibbutzim in the Galilee,
             settlements on the West Bank, and Israeli army bases everywhere" (326, Shipler).
             No one was sure what these towers were for nor were they given an answer, but as time went on the a...