The Palestine Nakba Controversy
March 30th, 2008By Ami Isserhoff Zionism-Israel.com
The creation of the State of Israel in 1948 was to have been accompanied by creation of an independent Arab Palestinian state. Instead, a war broke out, and at the end of the war, between 600,000 and 711,000 Arab Palestinians had left their homes and were refugees. The defeat of the Arab Palestinians and the creation of the refugee problem is called the “disaster” (Nakba) by pro-Palestinians, and it is blamed on a supposed Zionist conspiracy to “ethnically cleanse” Palestine, and supposed forced expulsion of the Arabs from their homes.
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| Nakba: Arab Palestinian Refugees |
It cannot be disputed that a large number of Palestinian Arabs were displaced during the Israel war of Independence. Their suffering is real. It cannot be disputed that the Jews (and later the IDF) carried out violent acts, often targeting civilians. The Irgun rolled barrels of explosives out of the backs of trucks in the Old City of Jerusalem and elsewhere, and the Haganah and Irgun attacked villages in various reprisal raids. They did it because the Arabs were terrorizing the Jews, attacking Jewish transportation and murdering people in ambushes. …
House Bill for 850,000 Jews & Other Refugees Persecuted by Islamic Nations
October 22nd, 2007In the upcoming Annapolis conference, no doubt the subject of refugees will come up. The PA, Hamas and the Arab nations demand that all the descendents of Arabs who left Israel when Arab nations attacked Israel in 1948 be allowed to return with full rights and compensation.
But there is another large group of refugees to be considered by anyone interested in justice, and that is the 850,000 Jews, Christians and other minorities who fled or were driven out of Middle Eastern and North African nations because the Islamic nations persecuted their minority, especially Jewish, citizens during the Arab-Israeli wars.
House Resolution 185 IH intends to declare that the issue of the injustice done and the losses sustained by Jewish refugees from Islamic nations must be considered equally with the demands for settlement and reparation of Arab refugees from Israel.
Why are we telling you about this?
HRES 185 IH has been referred to the House Committee on Foreign Affairs. Contact your US Representative and urge them to support this bill and bring it to a full house vote in time for the Annapolis conference. You can bring a little more justice to the “Peace Process” by lobbying for this resolution.
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UN Convention on Refugees, 1951
January 15th, 2000Convention relating to the Status of Refugees
Adopted on 28 July 1951 by the United Nations Conference of Plenipotentiaries on the Status of Refugees and Stateless Persons convened under General Assembly resolution 429 (V) of 14 December 1950
entry into force 22 April 1954, in accordance with article 43
status of ratifications, reservations and declarations
Preamble
The High Contracting Parties,
Considering that the Charter of the United Nations and the Universal Declaration of Human Rights approved on 10 December 1948 by the General Assembly have affirmed the principle that human beings shall enjoy fundamental rights and freedoms without discrimination,
Considering that the United Nations has, on various occasions, manifested its profound concern for refugees and endeavoured to assure refugees the widest possible exercise of these fundamental rights and freedoms,
Considering that it is desirable to revise and consolidate previous international agreements relating to the status of refugees and to extend the scope of and the protection accorded by such instruments by means of a new agreement,
Considering that the grant of asylum may place unduly heavy burdens on certain countries, and that a satisfactory solution …
