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E-mailYesterday, was World Refugee Day. Refugees are created through wars and pure ethnic cleansing and such inhumanity has not ended in the 21st century. The tragedy of Darfur was created hundreds of thousands of refugees and countless more have been created in other wars and atrocities in Africa.
Pakistan’s conflict with the Taliban in the north of the country has displaced millions.
In this time of recognition of refugees, The Economist provided this chart of the nations with the largest refugee population:
The refugee population in both Jordan and Syria is made up exclusively of Palestinians. In 1948, with the violent creation of Israel, hundreds of thousands of Palestinians were made refugees by terrorist Zionist militias.
Today, those Palestinians number in the millions. In 1948, the United Nations Security Council passed a resolution stating that all those who wish to return to their homes should be allowed to. But Israel, keen to maintain its Jewish majority, refused to recognize the Palestinians’ right-of-return.
Every year, the United Nations General Assembly reaffirms that right but Israel still refuses to allow the Palestinians to return.
This Refugee Day weekend let us remember the longest-serving refugees and all they have suffered. Upon committing ethnic cleansing, Israel’s founding Prime Minister David Ben-Gurion stated that “the old will die and the young will forget” about the injustice done to them.
But the Palestinians have not and will not. And they shall return.
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”In 1948, with the violent creation of Israel, hundreds of thousands of Palestinians were made refugees by terrorist Zionist militias.”
At best, a half-truth. Prior to the actual partition, the Arab League demanded that Palestinian Arabs leave to give the ”victorious Arab armies” a free-fire zone. Palestinian sources admit that fully 68% of the original Palestinian ”refugees” left their homes without ever seeing a Jewish soldier or hearing a shot fired.
You also conveniently omit the minor fact that Israel, on the day of its establishment, was attacked by six Arab armies with the declared intention of ”driving the Jews into the sea” and ”finishing what Hitler started”.
Israel’s (re-)birth was violent only because of Arab rejectionism.
”In 1948, the United Nations Security Council passed a resolution stating that all those who wish to return to their homes should be allowed to.”
Another half-truth. The UN General Assembly (NOT Security Council) Resolution 194 reads:
’Article 11:
’Resolves that the refugees wishing to return to their homes and live at peace with their neighbours should be permitted to do so at the earliest practicable date, and that compensation should be paid for the property of those choosing not to return and for loss of or damage to property which, under principles of international law or in equity, should be made good by the Governments or authorities responsible.’
Note the operative words here: ”...wishing to return to their homes and live at peace with their neighbors...”
No country can be ”required” to accept a hostile population in its midst.
When you talk about ”ethnic cleansing”, why don’t you mention the almost 1 million Jewish citizens of Arab countries who were expelled, disenfranchised and divested of all assets, personal and communal, from those Arab countries? Even Hitler would have been happy to be as efficient an ethnic cleanser as the Arab world– 99% Jew-free...