YYA, I looked up the numbers of abducted children (I understand this is not the only issue, but the most outrageous one) – out of 500K+ sephardim in general, several commissions talked at most of hundreds, and highest wild estimates talk about 10K. These are big numbers, if true, but they are still just a small part of the community. I agree that this will be a larger proportion for Yemenites.
Your explanation of Sephardi path – re-education, followed by teshuva, followed by stockholm syndrome seems to be biased … I know both sephardim who came to US directly and those who were in Israel, and their hashkafot are very similar to each other. It all various a lot by country and personal caes, of course – but many were “observant” in a very marginal way – they just lived in places that certain things were done; they were relaxed about many halachot because people around them were muslims. I know one such man whose wife was a little more advanced and she had to list all potential ingredients he might encounter in american food to impress him enough to start being products with hashgaha. He was “observant” buut he only knew what his local muslims would put into the pita – flour and water. I presume our ashkenazi ancesstors were in a similar position in 18th century when it became possible to travel away from the shtetlach. This is what R Hirsh was writing about – those who are not ready to confront the world will go OTD.
Also, as long as we described these historical grievances, we need to remember that those zionists actually saved all these sephardim from the wave of brutal regimes in their countries. At the time, some people might thought that zionists were “uprooting” communities, but now we know what was ahead in Iran/Iraq/Syria/Yemen. Without those resettlements efforts, their life would be totally different. I asked a friend whose family is from Aleppo whether he thought about it when Russian air force was bombing the city held by Islamists in support of Baath regime .. he said he did not, they all never looked back and do not even think what would have happened to them …