tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12677825.post1355678337982424124..comments2024-03-14T02:22:26.957+00:00Comments on Point of No Return: Jewish Refugees from Arab and Muslim Countries: Exodus TO Egypt: the forgotten refugees of 1917Unknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12677825.post-73311086377756883632012-12-24T12:30:50.795+00:002012-12-24T12:30:50.795+00:00Suggest you have a look at this on the now-vanishe...Suggest you have a look at this on the now-vanished community of Karachi, Pakistan (includes docu-clip on the lovely and still-extant cemetery:http://asiasociety.org/blog/asia/karachis-lost-jews-onstage-raise-troubling-parallels-todays-pakistanAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12677825.post-68485634922974934172011-04-17T17:57:07.157+01:002011-04-17T17:57:07.157+01:00I have a dream...to see antisemitism disappear fro...I have a dream...to see antisemitism disappear from the face of the earth!!!<br />But why this antisemitism? My explanation for this? Because we are more intelligent and more beautiful than most.<br />And yes i am proud of belonging to Judasim. But believing that one day there will no longer be antisemitism is an illusion; Therefore: we must be strong!<br />I told my granddaughter: to be Jewish here in Europe , you must be strong!!!<br />Sultana Latifa a former refugee from Egypt.<br />The lord took me out of Egypt twice, may his name be blessed.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12677825.post-27814216439974499292011-04-15T19:47:40.731+01:002011-04-15T19:47:40.731+01:00Thank you for the link and thank you, Eliyahu m...Thank you for the link and thank you, Eliyahu m'Tsiyon.<br /><br />My grandmother was one of the many that were forced to leave Tel Aviv in 1914. The entire family lived in Alexandria until the end of WWI.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12677825.post-24036471102769860292011-04-14T13:45:01.506+01:002011-04-14T13:45:01.506+01:00Eliyahu thanks as ever for your expertise.Eliyahu thanks as ever for your expertise.bataweenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15829104245735619972noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12677825.post-69200733728089600912011-04-14T13:06:31.381+01:002011-04-14T13:06:31.381+01:00The article is somewhat confusing. There were two ...The article is somewhat confusing. There were two groups of Jewish refugees in and from Israel. First, near the start of Ottoman entry into WW I, was the expulsion of Jews who were subjects [not citizens!] of enemy states such as Russia, France, UK. Then there were the Jews of Tel Aviv & Yafo [Jaffa] forced out of their homes as described in March 1917. That was about 2 1/2 years into the war. <br /><br />Besides the fact that the Ottoman Empire had begun with this expulsion to apply to the Jews in Israel the preliminary stages of the mass murder of the Armenians --an important fact in its own right-- is the fact that about 1/3 [or 1/2 according to this article] of the Jews in the country left for one reason or other during the war. So the Jewish population after the war in 1918 was much smaller than before the war. Arab partisans prefer to use the 1918 number of Jews in the country rather than the 1914 number which was much larger.<br /><br />Jamal Pasha was a very central figure in the Armenian genocide. His HQ was in Damascus where he met with Aaron Aaronsohn whom he appointed to head a kind of public commission. Because of the travel passes/permits that Jamal gave him, Aaronsohn and his associates in the NILI group were able to travel about and gather information --on the Armenian genocide among other things-- which was passed on to the British in Cairo. <br /><br />First link is on Jews caught up in the Armenian genocide:<br />http://ziontruth.blogspot.com/2008/07/jews-caught-up-in-armenian-genocide.html<br /><br />Aaron Aaronsohn's concern over the German role and over the expulsion of Jews from Yafo and Tel Aviv:<br />http://ziontruth.blogspot.com/2008/07/armenian-genocide-german-role-in-it-as.html<br /><br />http://ziontruth.blogspot.com/2008/05/activist-zionists-armenian-genocide.htmlEliyahu m'Tsiyonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07973268399414290195noreply@blogger.com