Point of no return

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Wednesday, May 11, 2005

Must-reads

http://www.frontpagemag.com/Articles/ReadArticle.asp?ID=7631

http://www.nationalreview.com/comment/comment-lerner071502.asp

http://www.infoisrael.net/cgi-local/text.pl?source=3/e/archives/290820041

http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/myths/mf15.html

http://www.peacewithrealism.org/jewarab1.htm

http://www.iact.ca/articles.php?category_id=2&article_id=88

http://www.meforum.org/article/263

http://www.discoverthenetwork.org/Articles/The%20Big%20Arab%20Lie.htm


http://www.aijac.org.au/review/2001/264/essay264.html

http://www.worldjewishcongress.org/publications/studies/study26.cfm
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In just 50 years, almost a million Jews, whose communities stretch back up to 3,000 years, have been 'ethnically cleansed' from 10 Arab countries. These refugees outnumber the Palestinian refugees two to one, but their narrative has all but been ignored. Unlike Palestinian refugees, they fled not war, but systematic persecution. Seen in this light, Israel, where some 50 percent of the Jewish population descend from these refugees and are now full citizens, is the legitimate expression of the self-determination of an oppressed indigenous, Middle Eastern people.
This website is dedicated to preserving the memory of the near-extinct Jewish communities, which can never return to what and where they once were - even if they wanted to. It will attempt to pass on the stories of the Jewish refugees and their current struggle for recognition and restitution. Awareness of the injustice done to these Jews can only advance the cause of peace and reconciliation.
(Iran: once an ally of Israel, the Islamic Republic of Iran is now an implacable enemy and numbers of Iranian Jews have fallen drastically from 80,000 to 20,000 since the 1979 Islamic revolution. Their plight - and that of all other communities threatened by Islamism - does therefore fall within the scope of this blog.)

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