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Shas to seek payout for Jews deported from Arab countries
By Barak Ravid
Tags: Arab states, refugess 

Shas is launching a campaign to seek compensation for Jewish refugees who came to Israel from Arab states. The campaign, part of the ultra-Orthodox party's election platform, counters Palestinian demands for the right of return of their refugees.

"Israel must state that no peace agreement would be implemented without solving the problem of the Jews from Middle Eastern states, with an emphasis on restituting their property, which is estimated at hundreds of millions of dollars," Religious Affairs Minister Yitzhak Cohen, of Shas, said Monday at Bar-Ilan University.

Part of Shas' plan consists of tracking down and registering Jewish property in Arab states, as a basis for future negotiations or agreements regarding the compensation for the Jewish refugees.
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Cohen told Haaretz Monday that there are some 850,000 Jewish refugees from Arab states, most of whom are living in Israel.

"It must be proclaimed that any system of compensating Palestinian refugees as part of a peace agreement will include a parallel one to compensate the Jewish refugees," he said.

The issue was raised in Israel's negotiations with the Palestinian Authority during Prime Minister Ehud Barak's term, including at the Camp David conference in July 2000. Today Pensioners Affairs Minister Rafi Eitan (Pensioners Party) is in charge of the issue.

Cohen's move is meant to appeal to Shas' voters, most of whom have their origins or ancestry in Muslim lands, ahead of the elections. He outlined the party's plan in his address yesterday, beginning with the need to define the refugee problem as a multi-national issue, one that affected hundreds of thousands of Jewish refugees from North Africa and the Persian Gulf.

"The uprooted Jews' problem is equal to, if not greater than, the Palestinnian refugees' problem," Cohen said.

Israel will make it clear in negotiations with the Palestinians and in international forums that "a just solution to the refugee problem," as defined in UN Security Council Resolution 194, includes the Jewish refugees as well, he said.

Cohen suggests that the Foreign Ministry start a public campaign in the UN and European countries.

"Since 1947, the Security Council has adopted 126 resolutions regarding the Palestinian refugees, but passed no resolution about the Jews from Arab states, although their numbers are similar," he said.

"The international community assisted the Palestinian refugees with billions of dollars, while the Jews from Arab states received no help or compensation."

In April of this year, the U.S. House of Representatives adopted a resolution conditioning any help or compensation for Palestinian refugees on similar help or compensation to Jews from Arab states.
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  1.   About time 03:08  |  Great White North 25/11/08
  2.   Didn`t the Jews pray for centuries ... 03:26  |  Axel 25/11/08
  3.   compensation. 03:34  |  JACK 25/11/08
  4.   query 04:36  |  potobac 25/11/08
  5.   BRAVO!! 04:42  |  Angel 25/11/08
  6.   Compensation for Jews from Arab Countries 05:02  |  RELevy 25/11/08
  7.   To Axel RE: Didn`t the Jews Pray for centuries 05:27  |  Flabergasted 25/11/08
  8.   A better idea! 05:29  |  Fritz 25/11/08
  9.   What next? 05:53  |  LEVN 25/11/08
  10.   One nice thing about Shas 05:57  |  Mark Lincoln 25/11/08
  11.   Axel, another thoughtless remark 06:16  |  Peter Williams 25/11/08
  12.   A least one Israeli party has the sense to stand up for Jews 06:22  |  Bennie 25/11/08
  13.   Fritz#8 and Axel 06:34  |  Yoav Ben Zakai 25/11/08
  14.   RE: Mark lincoln. I missed that. 06:36  |  judith 25/11/08
  15.   FRITZ, of course 06:37  |  judith 25/11/08
  16.   LEVN, the dunce 06:39  |  judith 25/11/08
  17.   Everybody can return! 06:50  |  Zaf 25/11/08
  18.   #8 Fritz A better Idea 06:52  |  Sonny 25/11/08
  19.   ABOUT TIME 07:17  |  dave 25/11/08
  20.   Compensation for what 07:27  |  allieb 25/11/08
  21.   Out-of-touch propaganda 07:46  |  Sarah 25/11/08
  22.   OH, AND HOW COULD I FORGET?? 07:50  |  Sarah 25/11/08
  23.   SH-ASS = $ 08:02  |  SJ 25/11/08
  24.   More panhandling? Wow, how tribal 08:11  |  Lou Medel 25/11/08
  25.   Yoav Ben Zaki - Palestinian cousins eh! 08:37  |  Fritz 25/11/08
  26.   Panhandling again? Geez. 08:59  |  ballistic 25/11/08
  27.   RE:More panhandling? Wow, how tribal 09:40  |  Jack 25/11/08
  28.   Shas: Good for Palestinian Cause! 09:42  |  Sharif Hafez 25/11/08
  29.   Ligitimate Issue on Both Sides 09:45  |  Mark of Lewiston 25/11/08
  30.   Nonsense to talk about this while rejecting the Saudi Plan 10:05  |  Ivar 25/11/08
  31.   Axel you disgust me 10:08  |  Jane 25/11/08
  32.   Yesher Koyach Shas, were I there, I`d vote for you 10:17  |  Harvey 25/11/08
  33.   Arab Jews left by choice. Pals did not. 10:28  |  American 25/11/08
  34.   Well, fair enough Shas (Israel), but then you will also..... 10:34  |  Swiss (Dino) 25/11/08
  35.   Okay, I was probably a bit too complicated..... 10:55  |  Swiss (Dino) 25/11/08
  36.   Jewish refugee camps? Deported Russian Jews? 11:08  |  Duhns 25/11/08
  37.   Different refugees, different status 11:16  |  Slibovitz 25/11/08
  38.   Deported or jews making aliyah? 11:30  |  Dhuns 25/11/08
  39.   37 TO Slibovitz: don`t blame the host blame the outlaws 11:38  |  Duhns 25/11/08
  40.   Dhuns 11:49  |  israeli 25/11/08
  41.   refugees of all sorts 11:55  |  Murray 25/11/08
  42.   I got no problems with Jewish refugees laying a claim for compo 11:58  |  Johnboy 25/11/08
  43.   #30 Israel hasn`t rejected the Saudi Plan, Ivar 12:06  |  Johnboy 25/11/08
  44.   compensation 12:22  |  terry 25/11/08
  45.   To Israeli - where are the jewish refugee camps? 12:31  |  Dhuns 25/11/08
  46.   The Egyptians should be wary! 12:43  |  PADDY 25/11/08
  47.   31, 13, 11, 7 and the "disgusted" rest 12:46  |  Axel 25/11/08
  48.   PRESSURE ON SYRIA AND IRAN TO LET GO OF JEWS? 12:48  |  David 25/11/08
  49.   SH-ASS just fishing for votes 12:52  |  SJ 25/11/08
  50.   Jewish refugee camps 12:52  |  Slibovitz 25/11/08
  51.   Economic and ideologic migration? 12:56  |  Slibovitz 25/11/08
  52.   #47 Herr Axel 13:00  |  JoJo 25/11/08
  53.   Duhns - confusion reigns 13:04  |  x-ray 25/11/08
  54.   David #48 13:06  |  JoJo 25/11/08
  55.   Doesnt it sound ridiculous? 13:11  |  A 25/11/08
  56.   Shas demanding Right of Return as well? 13:19  |  Michael 25/11/08
  57.   There is ample evidence including a `draft law` document 13:21  |  Margie in Tel Aviv 25/11/08
  58.   A #55 13:41  |  JoJo 25/11/08
  59.   As an Arab Muslim, I agree 13:53  |  Arab Muslim 25/11/08
  60.   Fritz und Axel - friends of Jewish people, however 13:55  |  17 25/11/08
  61.   #56 Hit the nail on the head, Michael 14:03  |  Johnboy 25/11/08
  62.   Johnboy 14:20  |  x-ray 25/11/08
  63.   The Jews were DEPORTED. The Arabs fled: leaders betrayed them 14:24  |  Realist 25/11/08
  64.   pay back for arab jews 14:27  |  cairo 25/11/08
  65.   for those who claim jews left voluntarily 1 14:30  |  JoJo 25/11/08
  66.   Payout for Jews 14:33  |  harold 25/11/08
  67.   This knife cuts both ways. 14:33  |  MIKE 25/11/08
  68.   Title: for those who claim jews left voluntarily 2 14:43  |  JoJo 25/11/08
  69.   HAROLD #66 14:47  |  JoJo 25/11/08
  70.   PALESTINIAN "PAYOUT" TOO FOR ETHNIC CLEANSING 14:52  |  JH 25/11/08
  71.   Finally Sephardic voices on this issue. Arab recognition past due 14:54  |  Ginsburg 25/11/08
  72.   Paddy 15:04  |  Steve 25/11/08
  73.   Arab Jewish refugees 15:25  |  Kilburn Towers 25/11/08
  74.   furthemore, Dhuns 15:27  |  israeli 25/11/08
  75.   Egypt was nationalized when the Jews left 15:28  |  newsreader 25/11/08
  76.   ovadia Yosef mr 10% 15:34  |  SJ 25/11/08
  77.   Compensation. 15:35  |  David Nigel Braham 25/11/08
  78.   Dhuns 15:40  |  judith 25/11/08
  79.   Re: A #55 15:56  |  Angel 25/11/08
  80.   Dahns on Jewish Refugee Camps 16:00  |  Nephtaly 25/11/08
  81.   Arafat met more than once with Jewish refugees from Arab lands 16:16  |  Simon 25/11/08
  82.   Robing , pillaging , prosecuting , expeling Jews 16:18  |  TOMY 25/11/08
  83.   Anothet Myth with which to "extract" money. 16:49  |  Labhras 25/11/08
  84.   #31 Jane in Florida. What about the Palestiniasn who were robbed 16:52  |  Labhras 25/11/08
  85.   I am amazed by the hypocracy shown by the wingnuts 17:00  |  Labhras 25/11/08
  86.   #77 judith what millions of Arabs 17:16  |  Labhras 25/11/08
  87.   Final accounts 17:41  |  Joe 25/11/08
  88.   Let us be honest it is not going to happen 18:26  |  David G 25/11/08
  89.   tot the moderator re equal treatment 18:26  |  Labhras 25/11/08
  90.   A reply to Dhuns 18:58  |  Bilbi 25/11/08
  91.   Dhuns Please explain 19:11  |  Golani 25/11/08
  92.   #13 Yoav Shalom and hurray for SHAS 19:26  |  Big Sur 25/11/08
  93.   #33 American and his misunderstanding of simple history. 19:33  |  Big Sur 25/11/08
  94.   Hey Lahbrasserie you do not have the nickle. 19:37  |  Big Sur 25/11/08
  95.   Swiss (Dino) this is what I have been saying 19:49  |  David Israel 25/11/08
  96.   Johnboy: then why talk about an Arab Peace Initiative? 19:50  |  Jewboy 25/11/08
  97.   RE: Michael 20:25  |  judith 25/11/08
  98.   No. 85 Labhras and the Moderators 20:36  |  Henry Blofeld 25/11/08
  99.   Aren`t most Jews from Arab countries already been compensated? 20:38  |  JustMe 25/11/08
  100.   #5 LIST INCOMPLETE 20:45  |  Ian 25/11/08
  101.   Restitution... don`t forget Spain... 20:54  |  Erastus CoupeDeVille 25/11/08
  102.   Labhras: Return the stolen wealth 21:12  |  Yacov 25/11/08
  103.   RE: Just Me 21:14  |  judith 25/11/08
  104.   #95 Just me---we like to double dip! Try it. 21:22  |  janet 25/11/08
  105.   Jews deported from Arab countries ? 21:45  |  mark21 25/11/08
  106.   #95 Justme: Your ignorance of history is breathtaking 21:51  |  Bennie 25/11/08
  107.   Yacov you are very confused 22:03  |  Labhras 25/11/08
  108.   JustMe - it`s not that complicated 22:05  |  Jewboy 25/11/08
  109.   Yacov re: Labhras 22:17  |  Libretta Cooperman 25/11/08
  110.   #103 Lahbras, I thought my point was made to youin #91 22:19  |  Big Sur 25/11/08
  111.   Lets Be FAIR!!! 23:31  |  James 25/11/08
  112.   ballestic,you and yours should know panhandling when you see it 00:44  |  terrornator 26/11/08
  113.   "AMERICAN" Pogrom in Baghdad 1939, 3000 Jews killed 00:50  |  PETER SM 26/11/08
  114.   Johnboy and the boundary line problem, #42 00:52  |  Peter Williams 26/11/08
  115.   33 00:55  |  zionist forever 26/11/08
  116.   STEVE - GUINNESS - A gift from some god! 01:24  |  PADDY 26/11/08
  117.   PADDY.EGYPTIANS should.They had their own Crystallnacht in 1956 01:33  |  PETER SM 26/11/08
  118.   Jews return to what? Persecution, minority status, 01:48  |  Itzik 26/11/08
  119.   To Arab Muslim 01:51  |  Captain Picard 26/11/08
  120.   Axel # 47 02:00  |  Philippe 26/11/08
  121.   mark21 way off mark 02:08  |  israeli 26/11/08
  122.   #20 and #33 Jews were forced out 02:12  |  Rob 26/11/08
  123.   Axel #47, what`s your problem? 03:35  |  Peter Williams 26/11/08
  124.   Jews in Arab Lands 03:38  |  Rab Burns 26/11/08
  125.   Pure Greed 06:23  |  Mark Lincoln 26/11/08
  126.   Judith, I elaborate and you distort 06:33  |  Mark Lincoln 26/11/08
  127.   Hey, what an Idea! 06:39  |  Mark Lincoln 26/11/08
  128.   support it but oppose conditions 07:07  |  truth 26/11/08
  129.   Peter from Brisbane validates Axel`s point.... 07:48  |  BBSNews 26/11/08
  130.   Mark Lincoln Please familiarise yourself with the pogroms 07:56  |  PETER SM 26/11/08
  131.   justme its just you who is so stupid 08:28  |  x-ray 26/11/08
  132.   One Trillion Dollars is Fair Amount for Compensation 09:07  |  Baruch gold 26/11/08
  133.   forgotten refugees 10:13  |  Rab Burns 26/11/08
  134.   BBS misses the point.... again 10:44  |  Peter Williams 26/11/08
  135.   The ARABS can Afford it why not be honourable for a change 12:07  |  Dagma 26/11/08
  136.   Labhras (#83) Not ONE Brass NICKLE 13:27  |  Gil 26/11/08
  137.   Trolling, Baruch Gold 13:41  |  Murray 26/11/08
  138.   Why not ADD ON COMPENSATION for Victims of ARAB TERROR 14:50  |  Dagma 26/11/08
  139.   Not just them, Dagma 14:28  |  Murray 27/11/08
  140.   Useless 01:56  |  M 30/11/08
  141.   compensation for jews from arab countries 13:01  |  henriette rita nada 16/12/08
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