The Jewish refugee equation: An obnoxious form of diplomacy

Rachel's uses her parents as an example of Iraq Jews that stayed intill the 70's but many Jews were thrown out of Iraq and there assests confiscated I wish Rachel would do more research instead of her parents experience. She also sites in her book that the Zionist underground planted bombs to get Iraq Jews to move to Israel. Yet her whole book is based on the promise that these Jews were not wanted in Israel. She should make up her mind. Or read some history books such as Martin Gilbert.

I agree with these views and am happy to know that some Jews from Arab countries also see it this way. As an Ashkenazi, I have been reluctant to come out against this equation, which has always seemed to me to be enormously distorted.

Rachel Shabi is an anti-Zionist Jew. She writes constantly in the British newspaper Guardian articles attacking Israel.

The Arabs stole from us an area equivalent to 5X the state of Israel, plus trillions in bank accounts & other assets. No Compensation = No Peace. What's Fair is Fair!

Much as I admire Shabi's book on the Mizrahi Jews in Israel, I disagree with her article. There is a commonality in the refugee question: both sets of refugees were created as a result of the establishment of the state of Israel. In both cases, some people stayed in their country of origin while others, the majority, either fled or were forced to leave through a variety of means. Time of departure is immaterial since there are no Jews left in the Arab lands, except in Morocco. Does she realise that there is an Arab hatred of Jews, not just of Zionists ? I agree though that Arab countries would refuse to even consider the issue of compensation to Jewish refugees. And how would it be administered anyway ?

It is necessary to show that the refugee problem is not one-sided. I have a friend whose family, consisting of eight members, left Morocco with only the shirts on their backs. Everything was taken from them. It is a pity that your leftist views can't separate facts from politics.

These people were ousted from Arab states in the backlash to jews expelling Palestinian Arabs from Palestine. If any one people are to take the blame for those jews forced from Arab States then it isd the jews who forcibly,through terrorism raised the Israeli State. The Palestinian Arabs played no part in it nor is it or can it be added to the Israeli Palestinian conflict. It is solely an Israeli problem.