humus_sapiens
05-26-2003, 10:59 PM
"Right of Return" is a real issue for Palestinian Arabs. The incitement started five and half decades ago when the world decided to keep these refugees in a perpetual state of flux and misery as a political tool against the Jewish state. However, the "Refugee Problem" is not exclusively Arab. Following 1948, there were, in fact, more Jewish refugees from Arab countries than displaced Palestinian Arabs. The reason why few people (including leading international diplomats) know about the Jewish refugee problem is because Israel absorbed most of the 900,000 as citizens. The UN Resolution 242 (which is the foundation for the Road Map) clearly states that "a just settlement of the refugee problem" must be resolved in negotiations between the two sides. According to most calculations, a fair settlement to the Jewish refugee problem just for lost and confiscated property is in the neighborhood over $100 billion.
Action: Go the Israel Info Center, http://www.israelinfocenter.com, [left top corner], to e-mail the United Nations' Commission on Human Rights and demand they officially recognize the multibillion dollar Jewish Refugee problem.
----- Sample Letter -----
Dear Distinguished Human Rights Official:
With the liberation of Iraq, it is time for the United Nations to recognize the refugees displaced by the likes of Saddam Hussein and other totalitarian regimes in the Middle East. Following the Arab war of 1948, more than 800,000 people, mostly Jews, were displaced from the brutal dictatorships and monarchies of Syria, Trans-Jordan, Egypt, Lebanon, Yemen, Iran, Iraq, Tunis and Morocco. However, their story of forced exile has been completely ignored by the world community.
As you know, at the end of World War II there were more than 900,000 Jews living in the Middle-East and North Africa. What is not well known is that by 1958 97% of all Jews living in Arab countries were forcibly expelled or had to emigrate to Israel due to local hostilities. In fact, many Arab countries after 1948 officially legislated racial discriminatory laws against Jews, denying them most basic human and civil rights, including:
expropriating their property; removing them from civil service and other forms of employment; subjecting them to countless arrests, physical attacks, torture, and even public executions.
All of these sinister acts were part of a larger pan-Arab plan to force a mass Jewish expulsion from the so-called "Arab lands".
While no sum of money can replace the lives lost to tragic persecution of Arab nationalism, the families of the nearly one million refugees today deserve the respect of the UN's acknowledgement. These families have spent the past 55 years being humiliated by the world community as their pleas have fallen on deaf ears, while the UN has championed other refugee causes in the area. The UN Resolution 242 clearly states that "a just settlement of the refugee problem" must be found, this resolution does not discriminate between Arab and Jew. In order to achieve a just settlement, the UN must take the first step to investigate these claims and restore the dignity of all refugees regardless of their race, creed, or religious preference.
Sincerely,
Action: Go the Israel Info Center, http://www.israelinfocenter.com, [left top corner], to e-mail the United Nations' Commission on Human Rights and demand they officially recognize the multibillion dollar Jewish Refugee problem.
----- Sample Letter -----
Dear Distinguished Human Rights Official:
With the liberation of Iraq, it is time for the United Nations to recognize the refugees displaced by the likes of Saddam Hussein and other totalitarian regimes in the Middle East. Following the Arab war of 1948, more than 800,000 people, mostly Jews, were displaced from the brutal dictatorships and monarchies of Syria, Trans-Jordan, Egypt, Lebanon, Yemen, Iran, Iraq, Tunis and Morocco. However, their story of forced exile has been completely ignored by the world community.
As you know, at the end of World War II there were more than 900,000 Jews living in the Middle-East and North Africa. What is not well known is that by 1958 97% of all Jews living in Arab countries were forcibly expelled or had to emigrate to Israel due to local hostilities. In fact, many Arab countries after 1948 officially legislated racial discriminatory laws against Jews, denying them most basic human and civil rights, including:
expropriating their property; removing them from civil service and other forms of employment; subjecting them to countless arrests, physical attacks, torture, and even public executions.
All of these sinister acts were part of a larger pan-Arab plan to force a mass Jewish expulsion from the so-called "Arab lands".
While no sum of money can replace the lives lost to tragic persecution of Arab nationalism, the families of the nearly one million refugees today deserve the respect of the UN's acknowledgement. These families have spent the past 55 years being humiliated by the world community as their pleas have fallen on deaf ears, while the UN has championed other refugee causes in the area. The UN Resolution 242 clearly states that "a just settlement of the refugee problem" must be found, this resolution does not discriminate between Arab and Jew. In order to achieve a just settlement, the UN must take the first step to investigate these claims and restore the dignity of all refugees regardless of their race, creed, or religious preference.
Sincerely,