for Sala Ali

Submitted by Peter Herz (United States), May 22, 2009 at 15:15

Sala Ali: What do you think of the hundreds of thousands of Jews forced out of their ancestral lands in Yemen, the Maghreb, and Iraq--the latter being Jewry's second homeland, after 'Eretz Yisroel itself? And, in the Iraqi case, they left with only the clothes on their backs; even though the Jewish presence in Iraq, Egypt, and Maghreb predates the Arab presence by a millennium? And I can't help but note that most of these Arab Jews and their descendants are no-questions-asked Israelis, while the Falastin Arabs remain refugees!

Yes, I'd like to see the fights between religions reduced to verbal and written polemics and persuasion myself. Yet there's blame to go around.

While we're at it, how come our Great American Shaitan has given passport-holding, property-rights, voting rights citizenship to many times the number of Falastin refugees than all the Arabic-speaking countries put together (excepting the PA, Jordan, and Israel itself)? I mean, if Lahore-born Manmohan Singh and Delhi-born Pervez Musharaf could shake hands at one point; why can't we see an Iraqi-born Israeli leader doing the same with a Falastin-born leader of Iraq, Egypt, or Saudi Arabia?

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