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<td><span class="PublishedDate">[ 					26/02/2011 &#8211; 09:17 AM ] </span></td>
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<div class="AuthorStyle_inside">By Khalid Amayreh</div>
<p><span style="font-size:10pt;">In a desperate effort aimed at  obliterating and liquidating the Palestinian refugees&#8217; plight, which is  actually the heart and essence of the Palestinian-Israeli conflict,  Israeli and Zionist propagandist have been speaking of a paralleled  Jewish refugee problem.</p>
<p>The mouthpieces of lie shamelessly speak  of hundreds of thousands of Jewish &#8220;refugees&#8221; who we are told were  forced to leave the Arab world after the creation of the evil entity  called Israel.</p>
<p>Obviously, the logic behind the dissemination of  these brash lies is to create an impression that the Palestinian  refugee problem had an equivalent and symmetrical Jewish refugee  problem. Eventually, the Zionist liars would want to convince us that  the Jewish refugee problem invalidates any special legitimacy attached  to the enduring Palestinian refugee cause.</p>
<p>These claims, of course, are nothing but contemptible lies and distortion of history.</p>
<p>After  all, the arrival of the &#8220;Arab Jews&#8221; in Israel was meticulously planned,  plotted, induced, expedited and carried out by Zionist circles,  including the Israeli intelligence services.</p>
<p>In some cases,  hefty bribes were paid to certain Arab government officials to agree to  allow their Jews to leave for Israel. In other countries, like in Iraq,  Zionist agents employed terrorism to foster an atmosphere of fear among  Jews in order to force them into leaving.</p>
<p>Synagogues were bombed  and threats were made in order to communicate the message to Jews, that  &#8220;your safety is at stake and that you have to leave before it is too  late.&#8221;</p>
<p>&#8220;I am not saying that relations between Jews in Arab  countries and their Arab compatriots were exemplary, especially after  the creation of the racist entity.&#8221; However, it is historically  established that many if not most of the rumors about &#8220;impending  pogroms&#8221; and other acts of discrimination against Jews were purposeful  propaganda originating in Israeli intelligence circles.</p>
<p>Naeim  Giladi, an elderly Iraqi Jew living in New York, described rather  vividly how Israeli agents orchestrated a deliberate campaign of  intimidation aimed at forcing Iraqi Jews to leave their ancestral  country. He also described in meticulous details the humiliating and  sub-human treatment Jews from the Middle East received at the hands of  the Ashkenazi authorities once they were brought into Israel.</p>
<p>In  addition, the &#8220;ingathering&#8221; of Jews from all over the world was and  still is the ultimate goal of Zionism. In other words, the ingathering  of Jews was more than just a desired goal of Zionism; it was a  monomaniacal obsession that nothing was allowed to stand in its way. If  so, how can these paragons of lie speak of hundreds of thousands of poor  Jewish refugees uprooted from their homes in the Arab world? That is  more than just a scandalous distortion of historical facts; this is  tantamount to fornicating with the facts of history.</p>
<p>In the  final analysis, there can be no equation between a deliberate,  premeditated ethnic cleansing of an entire people from their historical  homeland, in which wide-scale massacres, such as Dir Yasin, were  committed, and the planned and nearly orderly evacuation of Arab Jews to  Israel in order to fulfill Zionism?</p>
<p>Of course, we are dealing  with sick and depraved people who are not prone to logic or reason since  they are bereft of honesty, a word that doesn&#8217;t exist in the lexicon of  Zionism.</p>
<p>It is this depravity and sickness of the mind that  make Zionist circles instruct some Jews in some Western countries, such  as France, US, Britain, and Canada, to scrawl anti-Semitic graffiti in  places with Jewish concentrations in order to intimidate Jews and get  them to emigrate to  Israel  in order to steal Palestinian homes and  land.</p>
<p>For them, everything, including truth, must be sacrificed  for the sake of Zionism and Israel. This is why, their depravity is  limitless and mendacity knows no bounds.</p>
<p>Indeed, trying to  equate the violent extirpation of the bulk of the Palestinian people  from their ancestral land on the one hand, and the carefully-planned  evacuation of Arab Jews in order to effect and fulfill Zionism, on the  other, is very much tantamount to trying to equate marriage and rape, or  between willful emigration and expulsion.</p>
<p>Hence, Zionist  efforts to concoct a Jewish refugee problem to counter the Palestinian  refugee plight should be dismissed with the contempt it deserves.</p>
<p>More  to the point, the so-called Jewish refugees were eventually transformed  into willing or unwilling thieves. They were housed in houses whose  proprietors still carried their keys, hoping to return home sooner than  later.</p>
<p>They were made to &#8220;possess&#8221; gardens, fields, orchards  and plots of land that belonged to another people. Even petty  possessions, such as furniture and livestock, which had belonged to  Palestinian refugees, were arrogated by these so-called Jewish refugees.</p>
<p>The  fact that these Jews maintained and sought to perpetuate this state of  theft in no way implies that legitimacy has been gained. A theft remains  a theft even after the passage of 62 years.</p>
<p>&#8220;I don&#8217;t deny that  Jews left homes and businesses and other property back in the Arab  world. However, emigrants who have left property in their former  countries have no right whatsoever to compensate for their abandoned or  lost property by stealing or arrogating another people&#8217;s property in  their new adopted country. That is both illegal and immoral. It is also  criminal, pure and simple.&#8221;</p>
<p>None the less, complete justice  ought to be given to both Palestinian refugees and Jews who had left  possessions and property back in their countries of origin.</p>
<p>The  Palestinians must be allowed to return home and be compensated and  Jews, if they so wish, should likewise be allowed repatriation and  compensation.</p>
<p>In fact, repatriation and indemnification are both  established by the UN General Assembly in the famous resolution 194. So  there should be no argument about other legal factors inhibiting the  implementation of the Palestinian right of return.</p>
<p>As to Arab  Jews and their descendants, they should have the courage to demand  repatriation and compensation instead of perpetuating the theft of land  and property that belong not to them.</p>
<p>In any case, such a  decision would require a high degree of rectitude and moral commitment.  This is why it is unlikely that it will ever see the light of the day  willingly.</p>
<p>But that decision would have to be taken Willy nilly, even under duress. History is a great leveler.</span></td>
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<p><a href="http://www.palestine-info.co.uk/en/default.aspx?xyz=U6Qq7k%2bcOd87MDI46m9rUxJEpMO%2bi1s7X9%2bWK8O0JhQ2BD3jFiLbzn6fZQSCINvgv2L87F%2flXDd7c8B5j80B%2fQnGq7BAHKcND%2bLbMGuDip%2fClNyT4ZCmlF1pOZekEf8rl5fNGAW7HJU%3d">The myth of Jewish refugees from the Arab world</a>.</p>
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