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To: NickSE who wrote (103475)	6/29/2003 6:06:00 PM
From: NickSE	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 281500

The forgotten refugees damianpenny.com A new group, co-chaired by Liberal MP Irwin Cotler, is demanding redress for the hundreds of thousands of Jews forced out of Arab countries following the creation of Israel. Newly discovered documents show Arab states orchestrated the persecution of their Jewish citizens after the creation of Israel, then kept more than US$1-billion in property belonging to the 850,000 who left, Canadian experts said yesterday. The study, carried out for a Jewish rights group, is published as Arab countries launch a new push for the "right of return" of millions of descendants of up to 600,000 Palestinian refugees to lands now inside Israel, or a deal that will compensate them generously. It argues Jews who left the Arab lands deserve equal redress and their plight should be recognized, as efforts to settle the Palestinian-Israeli conflict unfold. Canada chairs the Refugee Working Group established under the peace process launched in Madrid in 1991, but the group has never counted the displaced Jews as refugees. Funny how the far left constantly accuses Israel of "ethnic cleansing" and "genocide" despite the presence of over a million Arabs within the Jewish state (and a rapidly growing Palestinian population), but they never mention this: In 1948, there were 856,000 Jews living in Arab countries; this number was halved within 10 years and has continued to fall, most noticeably after periods of conflict or tension between the Arab world and Israel. Today there are only 7,800 left, mainly in Morocco (5,700) and Tunisia (1,500). Admittedly, some undoubtedly left because they wanted to live in a Jewish state. But all of them? I'd have a lot more sympathy for the plight of Palestinian "refugees" (and I use the scare quotes because most of the so-called "refugees" have never lived in Israel) if the Arab world would show even a modicum of sympathy for what happened to their once-flourishing Jewish minorities. Update: Meryl Yourish has more. It will not surprise you to find out that the UN has passed 101 resolutions about Palestinian refugees - 101 more than they've passed for Jewish refugees.