tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12677825.post75731148577634931..comments2024-03-14T02:22:26.957+00:00Comments on Point of No Return: Jewish Refugees from Arab and Muslim Countries: Media in disarray over Jewish refugeesUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12677825.post-11753066733427570622012-09-27T18:02:22.446+01:002012-09-27T18:02:22.446+01:00The author doesn't say Shayna does claim this....The author doesn't say Shayna does claim this. bataweenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15829104245735619972noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12677825.post-74903566493651810062012-09-27T16:38:18.705+01:002012-09-27T16:38:18.705+01:00Shayna Zamakeni's article doesn't claim th...Shayna Zamakeni's article doesn't claim that it's intended to deflect attention from the African refugee crisis, rather she says that that's what the campaign has been accused of doing.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12677825.post-68282755089880588222012-09-25T09:15:53.396+01:002012-09-25T09:15:53.396+01:00It is a fact that the Bengio family of the US has ...It is a fact that the Bengio family of the US has made individual claim but it is the Egyptians, not Israel, that is blocking it under all kind of pretense.<br /><br />Shenhav has facts but his interpretation of them is what is extremely dishonest.Sylvianoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12677825.post-66929805050396230922012-09-24T22:47:52.155+01:002012-09-24T22:47:52.155+01:00Eliyahu,
What's all that Shenhav says about Is...Eliyahu,<br />What's all that Shenhav says about Israel 'blocking' Jews from making individual claims ? Is there any truth in this?<br />bataweenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15829104245735619972noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12677825.post-34637444463933313992012-09-24T22:20:37.293+01:002012-09-24T22:20:37.293+01:00The Arab and Arabophile endeavor to redefine the c...The Arab and Arabophile endeavor to redefine the concept of refugee ought to be refuted intensely. Otherwise, they will win more ignoramuses to their side. Ashrawi of course was ridiculous in denying that the Jews who came from Arab lands after 1948 were refugees. I have read an article or two by Michael Lasker where he describes how Jews were robbed of personal belongings by airport officials as they fled the country in fear for their lives. If this is not a refugee experience, what the hell is?<br />btw, the article at the link describes the present condition of synagogues in Egypt. A sad story:<br />http://www.iflac.com/wcje/textHTM/99%20Haaretz%20The%20end%20of%20Exodus%20from%20Egypt.htm<br /><br />Just a short comment about Yehuda Shenhav who needs a thorough debunking. He says that "no serious researcher in Israel or out, has adopted the extreme claims of the organization [WOJAC]." I'm not sure what "extreme claims" Shenhav is talking about. But maybe we could hear from Prof Rafi Israeli [born Morocco], Prof Moshe Sharon [b. Iraq], or Prof Michael Lasker. Lasker was not born in an Arab country but has described the cruel treatment that Jews were subject to in Egypt, for example. I know that Rafi Israeli is very critical of Islam and has written several books on the subject, including one in Hebrew called [לחיות עם האיסלאם][= Living with Islam][Tel Aviv: Ahiasaf 2006]. <br />Chapter nine in the book "Jews, zionists, and the Jewish State in the eyes of Islam." He writes on p 150 that Islam has "a built in hatred of Jews and Christians." This is in the context of a discussion of jihad and the dhimma status.<br /><br />I would bet that Prof Israeli [Hebrew Univ and Truman Institute] might just agree with some of the "extreme claims" of WOJAC. But it is clear that Shenhav puts the welfare of Palestinian Arabs on a higher level than that of Jews, whether from Arab lands or elsewhere.<br /><br />BTW, Shenhav also misrepresents what Nakba originally meant to the Arabs, which was NOT that several 100,000 Arabs became refugees but that the combined might of the Arabs was defeated by the lowly Jews. On this see "The Catastrophe" [or "The Disaster"] by Constantine Zurayk.Eliyahu m'Tsiyonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07973268399414290195noreply@blogger.com