tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12677825.post2422094508640100130..comments2024-03-14T02:22:26.957+00:00Comments on Point of No Return: Jewish Refugees from Arab and Muslim Countries: UNWRA chief fails to acknowledge Jewish plightUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12677825.post-75170942562939293732009-12-20T19:21:25.713+00:002009-12-20T19:21:25.713+00:00The author of this article asks how Abu Zayd can f...The author of this article asks how Abu Zayd can focus on just the suffering of the "Palestinian" (i.e.. Arab Palestinian") refugees, while not also making reference to the Jewish refugees that were also driven from their homes.<br /><br />Well, as the author points out, Jewish refugees from Arab lands have often been successfully integrated and absorbed into other countries.<br /><br />On the other hand, for a variety of reasons Arab Palestinians often have not been successfully integrated in other lands, still don't have the benefit of their own state and have remained for decades mere negotiating pawns of other Arab (and Persian) interests in the region.<br /><br />So quite reasonably, it is refugees in inhospitable circumstances the UN will focus on, rather than making sure its press releases and interviews remind people of the brutal treatment of Jews in the region.<br /><br />As you know, the United Nations Relief and Works Agency's job is mostly to help feed, clothe, and shelter people and only partly to issue press statements on proportionality of suffering and responsibility for causing that suffering.<br /><br />And, of course, refugees in areas of global political interest will get more interest (and better funding) than in, say, deeper Africa.<br /><br />And a democratic state that is a haven for dispossessed Jews (and a solid Western ally in an oil-rich region) will get more interest (and better funding and provision of armaments) than in, say, deeper Africa.Ephronnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12677825.post-7184959390751396162009-12-12T20:21:39.529+00:002009-12-12T20:21:39.529+00:00Here is a negative comment about a piece by a prof...Here is a negative comment about a piece by a professor, no less, on the guardian "comment is free" site.<br /><br />http://beirut2bayside.blogspot.com/2009/12/guardian-hearts-mukhabarat-media.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+AcrossTheBay+%28Across+the+Bay%29<br /><br />It has to do with alleged liberalization of the press in Syria.Eliyahu m'Tsiyonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07973268399414290195noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12677825.post-30261608800803721402009-12-11T10:28:59.902+00:002009-12-11T10:28:59.902+00:00she is also interviewed here:
http://www.haaretz.c...she is also interviewed here:<br />http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1134221.htmlAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12677825.post-62367596315653974762009-12-11T05:47:56.873+00:002009-12-11T05:47:56.873+00:00of course, she was not concerned with legal owners...of course, she was not concerned with legal ownership of the Shimon haTsadiq plot which is vested in the Sefardic Community Committee. The head of this committee was shown on Israeli TV.Eliyahu m'Tsiyonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07973268399414290195noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12677825.post-74337242692381354582009-12-11T05:46:16.764+00:002009-12-11T05:46:16.764+00:00what's just as bad is that this same Ms Abu Za...what's just as bad is that this same Ms Abu Zayd led a demonstration on the Shimon haTsadiq plot in Jerusalem, demanding that Israel bring the former Arab tenants back to the house from which they had been legally evicted and remove the Jews. Ms Abu Zayd made no mention of the violent attacks on the Jewish residents of the Shimon haTsadiq Quarter in December 1947 which drove them out of their homes and made them the first long term refugees of the war. Instead, she claimed that the area was "occupied" and that therefore Israelis had no right to live there. Thus she exhibited anti-Jewish racism. Her false legal interpretations fit current EU and US policy.Eliyahu m'Tsiyonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07973268399414290195noreply@blogger.com