Showing posts with label Refugees. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Refugees. Show all posts

Sunday, 11 December 2016

The Jewish Naqba~Time for the Truth!

Jewish Refugees from Arab Lands~1950
When Israel was celebrating the miracle of it's re-birth she also had to contend with the foolishness of "nakba" day in Israel. This has nothing to do with human rights because anyone who has the courage to be honest and look at the facts will know that regardless of the problems the arabs have in Israel, they are still treated far better that they are in any Arab country! The idea that Israel is "apartheid" or is responsible for "murdering innocents" is nothing more than the old "blood libels" with a twist.

For some time I have been interested in the Jews who originated from Arab countries. There are many stories and opinions. What there has not been in the past, is the recognition of these Jews whose numbers are estimated as being close to one million. They were brutally attacked, many murdered and almost the entire population run out of the countries in which they had lived for centuries. The fled with little more than the shirts on their backs. Many came to Israel where they faced a new set of problems, and many were dispersed to westernized countries around the world. What has not been said, is that they did not claim to be "perpetual refugees". They bore their hardships, suffered the indignities and worked hard to integrate and begin new lives. 

One of my favorite sites for information is a blog called Point of No Return. There are stories, pictures, videos and much more. I urge you to visit the site and learn the truth!

These are the people who faced a "True Nakba"~Do Take Time to Educate Yourself!

Thursday, 24 November 2016

Ethnic Cleansing of Jews From Arab Countries

I have a very dear friend who survived the Shoah with her mother and two sisters. Her teen years were spent in Auschwitz. 

Rather than let the horror of the evil she lived through take over her life, she went on to marry and raise an amazing family of her own. At the same time she returned to school and eventually became a psychologist. She made aliyah and dedicated herself to working with those suffering trauma~especially victims of the Shoah and their families.

She  told us a story of a visit she was asked to make to a seniors living facility in Israel. The residents were not Ashkenazim from Europe, or even Sabras (native Israelis). They were Sephardi Jews who had lived in Middle-Eastern countries occupied by Arabs~countries such as Iran, Iraq, Egypt, Syria. Libya, Morocco, Yemen, Tunisia and other areas.

As she greeted the people she told them a bit of her own story. She acknowledged that they most likely could not identify with her tribulations and asked if any of them had ever gone through trauma during their lifetimes.

What followed was a flood of stories about the persecution and ethnic cleansing of the Jews from the Middle-East. These people had carried the horror of their escape and expulsion all their lives and very few people had heard of it~or wanted to hear of it! It is a story that even our own government in Israel has not given a loud enough voice to. 

More than a million Jews were expelled between 1946 and 1974~over a million "forgotten" fugitives viciously expelled from the Arab world. More than a million suffering, destitute souls whom the world tried to forget, while the victims themselves quietly accepted their fate as they struggled to reach a safe place and begin their lives again. For thousands of years Jews had been living in Arabic lands. They were there before Islam, and they remained, accepting their fate and being thankful for the miracle of their survival.

The beginning of their exodus, 1948, coincided with the birth of the State of Israel. While Arab armies were preparing to invade the young refugee-country, and survivors of the Shoah were cramming into leaking "ships" to return to the land they had prayed to return to, a few hundred thousand Arabs from the former "British Mandate of Palestine" were getting ready to flee their homes~convinced that the Jews would be pushed into the sea, and they would return as conquerors and "take it all" .

They filled up camps built on their "brothers" land, but because of their refusal to integrate~and their brother's refusal to let them~they continued to pass on their refugee status to the next generations to this very day. A few hundred thousand has become over seven million! Seven million "refugees" who have their own UN agency, the United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA) to feed and care for them with billions of dollars from western countries. Unlike others, they never give up their refugee status and remain willing pawns to be used by the Arab world in their efforts to wipe Israel from the face of the earth.

The Jews from Arab countries did not get any special status~or any status at all for that matter. They had lost everything including relatives, memories and the very graves their ancestors were buried in. They never asked for compensation, a right to return, or even made a fuss to have their story told…

There are many blogs where you can find facts and information on Jewish refugees from Arab countries. One of my favourites is Point of No Return. Another great source is Pierre Rehov. His films dig deep below the surface to reveal the truth. I urge all to watch the movie below and learn more about the "Silent Exodus". Hopefully, one day, the truth will be known... 

Silent Exodus a Movie by Pierre Rehov ( updated 2015 )

Sunday, 25 September 2011

Palestinian Refugees are Denied Human Rights

Palestinians in Lebanon
Year after year we hear that the rights of Palestinian Refugees are being denied. Indeed this is true. An article posted some time ago by Arutz 7 describes what is a gross violation but who will do anything about it? Not the UN agencies responsible for these refugees. They garner a disproportionate amount of world funding. More than all the other countries combined!

*Note*
Almost One Million Jews were expelled from Arab countries during the early part of the 1900's. They were not given refugee status but were absorbed by Israel and other countries such as America. They received No Compensation for the lost of Land, Businesses, Homes, Cash and Valuables taken from them by their Arab host countries or the UN agencies~Why??

A group calling themselves Free Middle East has started an information site. In 1948 between 450 and 800,000 Arabs left Israel at the request of their leaders (UN now claims 711,000). They were told that in a matter of days the Jews would be pushed into the sea and they would then "have it all" (Sounds Familiar~Doesn't it!) Well, they lost~and since then their numbers have grown to nearly five million!!

Israel has no refugee camps. Arab-Israelis hold full citizenship and have the same rights as every Israeli--maybe more. They are free to travel and live wherever they please in Israel~yet, if I take a wrong turn into an Arab residential area I could be lynched...

Do watch this video, then visit the site of Free Middle East to learn more. Isn't it about time the world took off the blinders? Isn't it time the Arab World is called to task? Are you not concerned that babies in Somalia and other African countries are really starving to death??

Friday, 11 March 2011

The Forgotten Refugees~1 Million Expelled

There seems to be a world impression that all Jews are from eastern Europe--Not So! If somebody wants to understand what is going on in the Middle East they have to understand the Jewish refugees from Arab countries and learn about the mass exodus of Jews from the Middle East and North Africa in the 20th century.

This film is not a "Hollywood Blockbuster" rather, it documents the history, culture, and forced exodus of Middle Eastern and North African Jewish communities in the second half of the 20th century. This is an extensive testimony of refugees from Egypt, Iraq, Libya, Morocco and Yemen~the joy and suffering~that nearly one million individuals have carried with them for so long. These are the personal stories and dramatic archival footage of rescue missions, historic images of exodus and resettlement, and analysis by contemporary scholars to tell the story of how and why the Jewish population in the Middle East and North Africa declined from one million in 1945 to barely several thousand today.

Whether you hate Israel and the Jews or love us, it is important for you to watch this film. Watch and listen closely. Think about where the truth lies as the haters scream blood-libels to this very day.

The Forgotten Refugees

Israel, Jerusalem, Judaism, Zionism, Middle East, Aliyah, Conversion, and everything else that pops up