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THE “RIGHT OF RETURN”:
When Israel was
created in 1948, Arab states and Arab Palestinians attacked the Jewish community
in Palestine and the Jewish state, vowing to “drive the Jews into the sea.” They
lost the war, and some 725,000 Arab Palestinians at the behest of Arab
leaders voluntarily fled from the area that became Israel. Palestinian Arabs
claim any peace agreement with Israel must allow the descendants and families of
these refugees, now numbering approximately four and a half million, to return
to Israel. If Israel were to agree to this Jews would became a minority in their
own state. Return of the refugees would put an end to the Jewish homeland.
From the onset of the 1948 Arab–Israeli War until the early 1970s,
800,000–1,000,000 Jews left, fled, or were expelled from their homes in Arab
countries. Although much is heard about the plight of the Palestinian refugees
from the aftermath of the 1948 Israeli War of Independence and the 1967 Six Day
War, little is said about the hundreds of thousands of Jews who were forced to
flee from Arab states before and after the creation of Israel. In fact, these
refugees were largely forgotten because they were assimilated into their new
homes, most in Israel, and neither the UN nor any other international agency
has taken up their cause or demanded restitution for the property and money taken
from them.
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