Exodus: The Expulsion of the Jews from Arab Lands

When people today think of the refugees of the 1948 War for Israeli Independence, most think of the 700,000 Palestinian Arabs who were displaced by the conflict.  Although few mention that most of these Arab refugees left their homes by their own free will, often at the urging of their Arab leaders so they they could clear the way for the armies of Six Arab nations to drive the Jews into the Sea.  However, what many people don't know is that after the 1948 War, over 850,000 Jews were expelled from nations such as Morocco, Egypt, Algeria, Syria, Iraq, Yemen, Lebanon, Tunisia, & Libya.  It's also worth noting that none of these Jewish refugees received any reparation or right of return, nor did they have a special UN agency created to help them.  Yet, we don't have a "Jewish refugee crisis." Interesting, isn't it?



Many don't know it, but the Jewish communities of the Arab world were some of the oldest Jewish communities in history.  Some of the communities in Iraq and Egypt actually existed for over 2,000 years.  That means that these communities predated the birth of Christ!!  These communities continued to endure despite the Islamic conquest of the 7th century.  They endured endless waves of persecution at the hands of their Islamic overlords and even during the "Good Eras," they were always a permanent under-caste in society.  By the end of the 1948 War, the governments of the Arab nations seized billions of dollars worth of property that belonged to their Jewish citizens, and expelled them.  More than half ultimately settled in Israel.  Prior to the mass expulsion, thousands of Jews throughout the 1940's fell victim to pogroms throughout the Arab world, often at the urging of the infamous Haj Amin al-Husseini, an Arab leader and former Grand Mufti of Jerusalem who not only personally ordered pogroms against the Jews in the Arab world, but helped carry out the Final Solution in Nazi-occupied Yugoslavia.  Even when World War II, ended, pogroms continued.  Nonie Darwish, who was an Egyptian citizen born in 1949, personally witnessed the lynching of several Jews during the years that the Jewish community was being expelled from Egypt.  

The reality is that the world is so obsessed with what they consider "the sins of Israel," that they fail to take into account the terrible sins of the Arab nations, and this sin in particular ultimately became one of the biggest calamities to ever be ignored by the international society.  


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