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The Forgotten Refugees
Why does nobody care about the Jewish refugees from Arab lands?
The world is greatly concerned about the Arabs who fled the nascent state of Israel in 1948. But no mention is ever made of the
Jewish refugees from Arab lands. Their history is as compelling and arguably more so than that of the Arab refugees from Israel.
What are the facts? A different history. It is instructive to compare the history
Jews in Arab countries. Jews have lived since Biblical times of those Jewish refugees with that of the Arabs who fled from
in what are now Arab countries. After the Roman conquest, Israel during its War of Independence. There were about
Jews were dispersed, mostly to what are now the Arab 650,000 of them. Most left following the strident invocations
countries of North Africa and the Middle East. Many Jews of their leaders, who urged them to leave, so as to make room
migrated to the Iberian peninsula – Spain and Portugal. They for the invading Arab armies. After victory was to be achieved,
were expelled from those countries at the end of the 15th they could return to reclaim their property and that of the
century. They mostly migrated to the Jews, all of whom would have been killed
Arab countries, where, by now, they have
Jews in Arab Countries
or would have fled.
been living for almost 500 years, many In contrast to the Jewish refugees, who
Jews for over 2,000 years.
1948 Now
were quickly integrated into Israel, the
There is a myth that Jews had an easy
Algeria 140,000 0
Arab countries resolutely refused to
life in Muslim/Arab countries. The
Egypt 75,000 100
accept the Arab refugees into their
opposite is the case. Jews under Islam
Iraq 135,000 100
societies. They confined them into so-
were treated as second-class citizens and
Lebanon 5,000 100
called refugee camps. Those camps are
worse. The relationship was governed by
Libya 38,000 0
essentially extended slum cities, where
a system of discrimination, intended to
Morocco 265,000 5,700 their descendants – now the fourth
reduce the Jews in those Arab countries
Syria 30,000 100 generation – have been living ever since.
to conditions of humiliation, segregation Tunisia 105,000 1,500 The reason for the Arabs’ refusal to accept
and violence. They were excluded from Yemen 55,000 200 them was and still is the desire to keep
society, from government, and from most them as a festering sore and to make
professions. They were barely tolerated and often, under the solution of the Arab/Israel conflict impossible. These
slightest pretext or no pretext at all, were victimized by vicious “refugees,” whose number has by now miraculously increased
violence. from their original 650,000 to 5 million, are seething with
When Israel declared its statehood in 1948, pogroms broke hatred toward Israel and provide the cadres of terrorists and
out across the entire Arab/Muslim world. Thousands died in suicide bombers.
this violence. Their homes and businesses were destroyed, The Palestinian refugees occupy a unique place in the
their women violated. The vast majority of those Jews fled concern of the world. Since 1947, there have been over 100
from where they had lived for centuries. They had to leave UN resolutions concerning the Palestinian refugees. But there
everything behind. Most of those who were able to escape has not been one single resolution addressing the horrible
found their way to the just-created state of Israel. injustices done to the nearly one million Jewish refugees from
Over 850,000 Jews were driven from Arab countries, most of the Arab states.
them in 1948, at the birth of Israel. Most of the remainder There have been many millions of refugees in the wake of
were chased out during or immediately following the Six-Day the Second World War. With only one exception, none of those
War in 1967, when, in fury about the disastrous defeat, the refugee groups occupy the interest of the world and of the
“Arab street” erupted and subjected its Jewish population to United Nations in a major way. That one exception are the
bloody pogroms. Israel received every one of those Jewish Palestinian refugees. In fact, a special branch of the United
refugees from Arab countries with brotherly open arms; it Nations (UNRWA) exists only for the maintenance of those
housed, fed, and quickly integrated them into Israeli society. “refugees.” In the almost sixty years of the existence of this
They and their descendants now make up more than one-half agency it has cost many billions of dollars, most of it – you
of the country’s population. guessed it – contributed by the United States.
Jewish refugees from the Arab countries are the forgotten refugees. The world, and especially of course the Arabs, claim
compensation from Israel for the Arab refugees and insist on their return to what has been Israel for over 60 years. The Jewish
refugees from Arab countries, all Israelis now, have no desire to return to their ancient homelands, where they had been treated
so shabbily and so brutally. But if there is to be any compensation, those forgotten Jewish refugees are certainly entitled to such
compensation as much as the Arab refugees. Anything else would be an outrage and a great injustice.
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