“The Jews are a peculiar people: things permitted to other nations are forbidden to the Jews. Other nations drive out thousands, even millions of people and there is no refugee problem. Russia did it, Poland and Czechoslovakia did it. Turkey threw out a million Greeks and Algeria a million Frenchman. Indonesia threw out heaven knows how many Chinese and no one says a word about refugees. But in the case of Israel, the displaced Arabs have become eternal refugees. Everyone insists that Israel must take back every single one.”
Eric Hoffer
In this case, they have to “take back” people that never lived there.
There’s a good dose of irony in this topic. The descendants of people who left or were driven out 2,000 years ago are allowed to settle back there whilst people or their descendants who left or were driven out 60 years ago aren’t.
I’m saving that, thanks for posting it.