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Title: | The JEWISH `NAKBA` - by Lyn Julius (1) | |||
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| Name: | Linda Rivera | | |||
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| Recognising the Jewish `Nakba` by Lyn Julius guardian.co.uk, June 25, 2008 ...an 80-year-old Jewish refugee named Sarah told the story of her traumatic departure in 1956 in the wake of the Suez crisis....She departed with nothing – along with 25,000 other Jews expelled by Nasser... Sarah was speaking at a House of Lords briefing as part of the Justice for Jews from Arab Countries congress... The exodus began 60 years ago when Arab states, hell-bent on crushing the new state of Israel militarily, also turned on their peaceful Jewish communities. Street violence killed over 150 Jews. Within 10 years, more than half the Jews had fled or been expelled, following discriminatory legislation, extortion, arrests, internment and executions. Today 99.5% - all but 4,500 - have gone. As the historian Nathan Weinstock has observed, not even the Jews of 1939 Germany had been so thoroughly "ethnically cleansed"... |
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