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RE: Forgotten Refugees: Israel Highlights Jews From Arab & Muslim Lands at U.N.

by | Sep 29, 2012


September 28, 2012

To the Editor,

RE:  http://www.winnipegjewishreview.com/article_detail.cfm?id=2905&sec=1&title=Forgotten_Refugees:_Israel_Highlights_Jews_From_Arab__&_Muslim_Lands_at_U.N.

It’s also important to remember that the Jews didn’t leave "just" because they felt threatened (a BIG "just").

In many cases their property was seized by the government(s), they had their citizenship revoked, and they were kicked out with a suitcase and a few dollars.

Many of them could trace their roots back 2 or 3,000 years.

In the case of Syria the Jews were held hostage and not permitted to leave.

There was the case of one Syrian Jewish family who entrusted their daughters (for a lot of money) to be smuggled out of the country. The bodies were returned in a sack – in pieces.

Judy Feld Carr was a true heroine in getting Jews out of Syria….

 The Arab refugees is the ONLY refugee group where "refugee status" is passed from generation to generation. Hence you see a kid at a session on the Middle East calling himself a 4th generation Palestinian refugee.

By the same logic I’m a 100th generation Judean refugee as a result of the Romans crushing the Bar Kochba revolt.

No to forget UNRWA’s definition of an Arab refugee: anyone who had lived in Mandatory Palestine for TWO years or more….
 
Last but not least there is UNGA Resolution 194 (the one “justifying" Arab refugee return to Israel.
The document is available online. What is interesting is to see who voted AGAINST UN General Assembly Resolution 194 of December, 1948:
 
"The First Committee’s draft resolution, as amended, was then adopted by a roll-call vote of 35 to 15, with 8 abstentions, as follows:
In favour: Argentina, Australia, Belgium, Brazil, Canada, China, Colombia, Denmark, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, El Salvador, Ethiopia, France, Greece, Haiti, Honduras, Iceland, Liberia, Luxembourg, Netherlands, New Zealand, Nicaragua, Norway, Panama, Paraguay, Peru, Philippines, Siam, Sweden, Turkey, Union of South Africa, United Kingdom, United States, Uruguay, Venezuela.
Against: Afghanistan, Byelorussian SSR, Cuba, Czechoslovakia, Egypt, Iraq, Lebanon, Pakistan, Poland, Saudi Arabia, Syria, Ukrainian SSR, USSR, Yemen, Yugoslavia.

Abstentions: Bolivia, Burma, Chile, Costa Rica, Guatemala, India, Iran, Mexico.

The Assembly, at its 186th meeting on 11 December 1948, thus adopted resolution 194 (III),7/ which read as follows:"
 

Wilf Mandel