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To: zonder who wrote (3291)	2/4/2003 10:57:14 AM
From: E. T.	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 15987

"do they have to CRUSH Palestinian civilians just because they have a "crushing military power"?" It would be nice if they were a bit gentler, but perhaps I'd feel differently if it was my friends and family being blown to pieces.

To: zonder who wrote (3291)	2/4/2003 10:59:11 AM
From: E. T.	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 15987

Claims of the Jews Indigenous to the Middle East and North Africa The demands of the Jewish refugees from Arab states are not nearly as well known as those of the Palestinians. The main components to these claims are: Numerous Arab governments evicted the indigenous Jewish populations as part of a campaign of expulsion that was clearly articulated and advocated by the political leadership of the Palestinian Arabs starting in the early 1940s. This leadership, led by Hajj Amin el-Hussayni, met and conspired with Adolf Hitler to annihilate the Jews of the Middle East and North Africa. During the Palestine Partition debate at the United Nations in November 1947, a number of Arab delegates (Egyptian, Iraqi and Palestinian) issued violent threats against the indigenous Jewish communities of the Middle East and North Africa. These threats were carried out in the weeks and months after the 1947 Partition vote as hundreds of Jews in Arab lands were massacred in government-organized rioting, leaving thousands injured and millions of dollars in Jewish property destroyed. During the expulsions of the Jews, the Arab governments -- most notably Iraq, Egypt, Libya, and Syria -- confiscated property from the fleeing Jews worth tens of billions in today’s dollars. Today, 99% of these ancient Jewish communities in the Middle East and North Africa no longer exist. These Jewish communities predated the 7th century CE Arab-Muslim conquests of these territories by over a thousand years. Jews from Arab countries generally do not want to return to these lands where they suffered intolerable violence and persecution. They simply want justice. They want the international community to recognize their plight and integrate full compensation of their lost property as part of a final Middle East peace agreement. The Dual Middle East Refugee Populations: The conflict between Israel and the Arab states produced not one, but two refugee populations: Arabs from Palestine and Jews indigenous to countries throughout the Middle East and North Africa. What transpired was an exchange of populations. But, while the Jewish refugees were welcomed and integrated into Israel, the Palestinians were forced into perpetual refugee status by the Arab countries to be used as political pawns against Israel. jimena-justice.org