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To: maceng2 who wrote (44)	12/5/2001 5:17:19 PM
From: Zeev Hed	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 6945

I am not sure where the numbers came in the map you cited, the 50,000 Yemenites must be a very low number (unless it includes some that got to Israel on the eve of the conflict). The "Shatiah Ha Kesamim" (the "Magic Carpet) program took out more than 100,000 Yemenite Jews form Yemen. I happen to be a little close to the Yemenite community in Israel (having a very charming Yemenite sister in law and great "half Yemenite" nieces and nephews) and this number has stuck in my mind). But in any event, the numbers I remember are a total of close to a million Arab Jewish refugees (including from places like Iran, Pakistan and yes, Afghanistan (there were still two Jews in Afghanistan as of about a year ago<g>)). Thus if one wants to play the "repatriation" game, lets play it on all sides. How about 2 MM Sikhs kicked out of fertile lands in Pakistan to India, or millions of Greek kicked out of Turkey, and so on. The last century has created 100 MM refugees in the world, but only the Palestinians refugees were used by the Arab governments as political pawns, they were refused citizenships by their host countries, kept in squalid camps (and I know those types of camps, having been a refugee myself, except, I tasted that taste for no more than 2 months) even though, more than 90% of them were born in their host countries. Gee, if you would apply the Kuwaiti test of citizenship to the Palestinian refugees, no more than 10% of them would qualify as "potential" Palestinian citizens. Zeev