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Jews driven from Arab nations. The Forgotten Middle East Refugees.
The Forgotten Middle East Refugees ^ | 2003 | jimena

Posted on 02/23/2003 7:57:52 AM PST by dennisw

 

B A C K G R O U N D

JEWS lived in what are now Arab states since the Babylonian destruction of the first Jewish Temple in Jerusalem, in 586 B.C.E. Middle Eastern and North African Jewish communities, among the oldest in the Jewish Diaspora, came to a tragic end in the 1940s and early 1950s when Arab governments forced the Jews to flee.

In 1945 there were nearly 900,000 Jews living in communities throughout the Arab world. Today, there are fewer than 8,000. In some Arab states, such as Libya, the Jewish community no longer exists; in others, only a few hundred Jews remain. Of the 900,000 Jewish refugees, approximately 600,000 were absorbed by Israel, where today almost half of Israel's Jewish citizens are the original refugees and their descendants. The remainder went to Europe and the Americas.

 

WE SEEK JUSTICE.

In 1948, nearly 900,000 Jews -- indigenous to the Middle East and North Africa -- lived in what are now known as the "Arab States."

Today, 99% of these ancient Jewish communities no longer exist in the lands where we lived for thousands of years.

Arab governments forced us to leave, confiscated our property and stripped us of our citizenship.

 

 


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To: dennisw
What's really mind-boggling is to consider the first place Arab Muslims drove out Jews from the land the latter spent centuries civilizing was the Arabian peninsula.
23 posted on 02/23/2003 10:22:58 PM PST by aruanan
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To: RnMomof7
I suggest that Israel return the favor..expel the Muslims from the land and take their property..as for the Mosque..let it be open to those with visas on Muslim Holy days..thats it..it is time to close the borders of Israel to the murderous Muslims..period!

Where there's smoke, there's fire. At this point, only severly brain damaged peoples will accept Muslim immigration. Especially when there are so many other non-troublesome populations to import. This is common sense, but of course the DemonRats are against it.

24 posted on 02/24/2003 12:46:33 AM PST by Concentrate
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To: HDMZ
These people in the picture, aren't they the welfare recipients of Israel who won't work or serve in the military, but suck off the state?
25 posted on 02/24/2003 12:49:30 AM PST by Concentrate
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To: Publius6961
So, if you're so professional, why don't you post the links? Do you think everything is documented on the internet?
26 posted on 02/24/2003 12:57:22 AM PST by Concentrate
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To: dennisw; HDMZ; Catspaw
This is where you got that stuff:

UKAR is an interesting site. Ukrainian Antisemites. It's actually one of the top ten hate-sites on the Wiesenthal list. Jewsnotzionists is, if I remember, run by an American couple with a background in the foreign service - from Saudi. They had an adopted "palestinian" son about the same age as their own kids.

Bottom line, anyone who links to jewsnotzionists might as well link to Stormfront, but anyone linking to UKAR is a special sort of swine. It's popular with Catholic Jewhaters.

Here's what USED to be their front page:

So, HDMZ, there's a site that will fit you: LibertyForum. But maybe it's getting boring over there since the owner seems to be trying to curb (but too little too late) overt racism?

30 posted on 02/24/2003 3:57:39 AM PST by Cachelot (~ In waters near you ~)
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To: Cachelot
Ah, add him to the growing list of those who think Father Coughlin was right about the JOOOS.
31 posted on 02/24/2003 4:17:15 AM PST by Catspaw
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To: Cachelot
UKAR is an interesting site. Ukrainian Antisemites..........

It's pretty darn nasty and a lot worse than when I last sawt a year ago.
32 posted on 02/24/2003 5:10:20 AM PST by dennisw ( http://www.littlegreenfootballs.com/weblog/weblog.php)
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To: dennisw
It's pretty darn nasty and a lot worse than when I last sawt a year ago.

Yes, and even a year ago it was one of the worst spots around. Wonder if the increased fervor might have something to do with the pope now pretty obviously choosing sides, and not the right side either...

33 posted on 02/24/2003 5:15:35 AM PST by Cachelot (~ In waters near you ~)
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To: Cachelot
Last year the website had all kinds of disclaimers on the front page, that they were not anti semitic. Now they've dropped that pretense. Same way our FreeRepublic antiSemites do at LF.
34 posted on 02/24/2003 5:18:20 AM PST by dennisw ( http://www.littlegreenfootballs.com/weblog/weblog.php)
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To: Van Jenerette
...for class reading.
35 posted on 02/24/2003 2:14:13 PM PST by Van Jenerette (Our Republic...If We Can Keep It!)
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To: HDMZ
Also try the Torah and Tanakh-based ( i.e. Old Testament rejecting the Talmud and Kaballah) Jewish group NETUREI KARTA.

Neturei Karta are many things. They are not Karites.

They are Shtetl Jews unable to live with modernity.
They reject Israel based on an ideology never found in the Torah or Talmud, but one forced by the Romans after 135.
They are hardly the epitome of Judaism. They are a dying sect.

As for Jews not Zionists, I'm sure that you can find a Catholic Site that rejects all the Popes after the so-called Babylonian Exile in France.

36 posted on 02/24/2003 3:37:01 PM PST by rmlew
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To: HDMZ
Neturei Karta="Noitige Tipshim" (Useful Idiots)


37 posted on 02/24/2003 3:43:52 PM PST by Alouette
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To: dennisw
Thx. for posting this.
38 posted on 02/24/2003 5:36:30 PM PST by sauropod (It's OK to drive an SUV if it helps you get babes.....)
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To: AdmSmith; AnonymousConservative; Arthur Wildfire! March; Berosus; Bockscar; cardinal4; ColdOne; ...
Note: this topic is from 02/23/2003. Thanks dennisw.
Jews lived in what are now Arab states since the Babylonian destruction of the first Jewish Temple in Jerusalem, in 586 B.C.E. Middle Eastern and North African Jewish communities, among the oldest in the Jewish Diaspora, came to a tragic end in the 1940s and early 1950s when Arab governments forced the Jews to flee. In 1945 there were nearly 900,000 Jews living in communities throughout the Arab world. Today, there are fewer than 8,000. In some Arab states, such as Libya, the Jewish community no longer exists; in others, only a few hundred Jews remain. Of the 900,000 Jewish refugees, approximately 600,000 were absorbed by Israel, where today almost half of Israel's Jewish citizens are the original refugees and their descendants. The remainder went to Europe and the Americas.

39 posted on 02/22/2016 10:02:56 AM PST by SunkenCiv (Here's to the day the forensics people scrape what's left of Putin off the ceiling of his limo.)
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To: dennisw; Cachelot; Nix 2; veronica; Catspaw; knighthawk; Alouette; Optimist; weikel; Lent; GregB; ..
Middle East and terrorism, occasional political and Jewish issues Ping List. High Volume

If you'd like to be on or off, please FR mail me.

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An old thread which has resurfaced. In many ways the most successful act of genocide of the last century. Jews purged from multiple countries they'd inhabited for millenia. And to this day not a peep from anyone.

40 posted on 02/23/2016 4:51:11 AM PST by SJackson (What I’m watching in him (O), is uncertainty...a leader doesn’t gMiddive sh*t...he gets it)
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