Posted on 12/26/2011 8:30:24 AM PST by bayouranger
The government has decided to tackle head-on the alleged “Arab refugees” issue by renewing efforts for compensation for Jewish victims of Arab pogroms .
Estimates of property losses range from $16 billion to $300 billion in Arab countries where Arab leaders seized their property or took it over after Jews were expelled or forced to flee because of anti-Jewish violence and harassment.
(Excerpt) Read more at israelnationalnews.com ...
Shoulda done it years ago.
Non-muslims have no standing in muslim courts.
The genocides that preceded and coincided with WWII should also be on the agenda. Thanks bayouranger.
If you’d like to be on or off, please FR mail me.
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This isn't particularly new. After the 1948 war Israel had a program which allowed for some reunification of families, and compensation of those who fled, but hardly any Arabs applied, since that would invoke the wrath of the region which still expected to push the Jews into the sea. In 1952 the program ended, and it's my understanding that the governments official since then has been that they'll gladly enter into negotiations regarding Arabs which fled, but only on a comprehensive, regional basis. The liklihood of the Arab states compensating Jews for property confiscated when they were expelled is zero, since the sum vastly exceeds the wildest dreams of todays palestinians.
It’s about GD time.....
That's hardly the point.
Claim reparations for it anyway, and then apply the final amount against any claims by Palis, and demand that they be resettled on the vast tracts of land purchased at inflated prices by the Baron Edmond de Rothschild in Syria and Jordan, and willed to the State of Israel, but confiscated by Jordan and Syria after 1948. Give the “refugees” a right of return to that land, and pay them back for lost lands with the value of the property stolen from Jewish refugees.
Assimilate them into Iraq, Syria, Jordan, Lebanon, Egypt, and anyplace abroad to which they wish to relocate. But not one to return to Israel. Simply call such towns within Israel as El Arub and Jenin what they are, towns and not “refugee camps,” and kick UNRWA the hell out.
Just stealing all that land for Trans Jordan would cover with plenty left over. Imagine if Jews owned land East of the Jordan( will happen someday) and all that barren desert land would be blossoming instead of just baking in the hot sun. The arabs and others are severely jealous because everything they touch they destroy but they demand Jews live as less than them.
It's pathetic really. I could not imagine everyone living in seventh century abject poverty, starvation and disease to acquiesce to these barbarians
Barely a soul listens or reads or even knows of the tragedies of Jews fleeing with the clothes on their backs from hostile countries. Joan Peters old book, From Time Immemorial( just naming one book) should be required High School reading or at least a college world History class to put all this Israeli/Jewish hatred in perspective. But will that happen? I'm optimistic it won't anytime soon as the blindness of arab propaganda is pandemic.
Another important book, as far as I know only available in Hebrew, is Hamoshav Hayhudi bimei Haatomanim by former president Yitzchak ben Tzvi. This has everything that Joan Peters’ critics claim was lacking from her works. It cites Arabic and Turkish sources, too, it lacks the polemic tone she struck as she discovered what a farce the Arabist version of history is. He did the research during the thirties, and worked on the first draft during the siege of Jerusalem in ‘48.
Paleostinian refugees are easily balanced out by Jewish refugees. Israel should have been trumpeting this for decades. As it is, not too many people are aware of the post 1948 Jewish refugees
Sadly, I have enough Hebrew as maybe a second grader and danged if I would be able to read a book like that. I’ll check amazon and see if it’s transliterated. Peter’s was creamed for her work as you noted. It’s too bad. If this is in English it sure would help, because Yitchak ben Tzvi’s book would certainly reinforce the proof from a man who lived through it. Thanks.
Peters wasn’t really creamed. They ranted and raved and made angry chimp noises at her, but this is what wikipedia has to say about her:
“Joan Peters (born 1938) is a former CBS news producer of otherwise unnamed documentaries, and the author best known for a number of theses on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, put forward in her book From Time Immemorial, published in 1984 in which she claims that the Palestinians are largely not indigenous to the area and therefore do not have claims to territory.
Peters has also written for magazines such as Harper’s, Commentary, The New Republic, and The New Leader in the 1970s and early 1980s and has helped create a series of TV news documentaries for CBS in 1973 regarding the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and provided commentary on the subject for PBS.[1]
During the Carter administration Peters served in the government as lecturer on issues related to the Middle East to State Department officials.[2] Peters served as White House Adviser on American Foreign Policy in the Middle East during the Carter Administration.[3] She is currently an advisor for the National Committee on American Foreign Policy.[4]”
To wit, they did not harm her career or her prestige. She’s still a power to be reconned with.
How did you arrive at that conclusion? Because Wikipedia's a reliable source of information? Because Jimmy Carter's still (more or less) in the White House? Because not having been invited back into government in thirty years is a sign of respect and trust? Because she's affiliated with a think tank few people have ever heard of?
Rightly or wrongly fairly or unfairly, Peters's book and career haven't been all that successful.
I never said that she went from strength to strength in her career, only that the controversy of her book did not destroy her career, as many Arabists and leftists fervently hoped the controversy would. She’s still out there. This clip taken last year indicates she’s doing more writing: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C4hwzoRxSAY
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