"Why does the Torah start with the creation, instead of the first commandment given to the Jewish People? Because if the nations of the world ever accuse the Jews of stealing the Land of Israel, the Jews will be able to respond to the nations of the world that the entire world belongs to G-d, He created it and He choose to give the Land of Israel to the Jewish People." -Rabbi Shlomo ben Yitzhak (Rashi)
In the 1940s, close to a million Jews from Arab countries were expelled from lands in which they had lived for 3000 years. They lost billions of dollars in property and came penniless to Israel. While we hear so much about the "Palestinian" refugees, the plight of the Mizrahi Jews has all but been forgotten.
Posted by Avi at 2:49 PM
4 comments:
YA, I'll get to it. All in due time.
Any thoughts on the double standards between the Arab and Jewish refugees?
Bar: good post. Shavua tov!
i wouldn't use the word 'naqba' and give any credence to the fakestinian distortion and lie.
First of, this so-called Jewish naqba is a big lie. You should check history books for facts.
Secondly, Sephardi Jews were lured, and many times terrorised, by the Mossad to convince them to come to Israel. In Morocco, the Mossad bribed officials to turn a blind eye on the smuggling of Moroccan Jews. On other occasions, they were lured with promises of riches and financial support. Up to this day, Moroccan Jews go to Morocco to visit their shrines and old neighborhoods and they are welcome to resettle in if they want. Some of them did. In Iraq, the Mossad committed acts of terrorism and blamed it on the Panarabists to convince Iraqi Jews to leave Iraq after they resented the idea for years.
The true Naqba is the Palestinian naqba, which resulted in tens of thousands of refugees who can not go back to their land because Israelis banned them from doing so while they still invite Russian and Ashkenazi Jews who have never set foot on the Palestinian soil to come settle there.
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