Thursday, April 5, 2018

Jewish Refugees From Arab Muslim Majority Lands And The Right Of Return

     There were more Jews that were driven out from Arab Muslim majority countries after Israel became a state than there were Arabs that fled from what is now Israel during the time of war in 1948. These Jews and their descendents - the Jews from the middle east and North Africa - now form the majority population of Israel.
      Hundreds of millions of refugees were created from before and after WW2 until now. If the right of return becomes a nonnegotiable right, then the lands that were stolen from the Jews of the middle east and North Africa must be returned to them. All of Australia must be given back to the Aborigines. All of the United States, all of Canada, the rest of North, Central and South America must be returned to the original native people. Hindus, Buddhists, Christians, Yazidis, Jews and others that were displaced by the often violent expansion of Islam must have their lands returned.
       Since the right of return has no time limit, what is now Saudi Arabia must be returned to the Jews as the Jews were slaughtered and driven out from the Arabian peninsula during the rise of Islam.
       Afghanistan must be given back to the Buddhists. The lands that were once under Hindu rule must be returned to the Hindus.
        Americans that are not of Native American descent are not willing to abandon the United States. Yet there are many in the United States and elsewhere that insist the Jews of Israel must go to make way for the Arabs, now called Palestinians, that want to claim all of what is now Israel. They fail to see the hypocrisy in demanding of others what they do not expect for themselves.
         The Jewish refugees from Arab Muslim majority lands continue to be conveniently forgotten. Many people in the west that oppose Israel are completely unaware of, or choose to ignore, the Jews that were turned into refugees by Arab Muslims and other Muslims.
         Israelis and Arabs share a small piece of land. The goal of Hamas, of Iran, of Hezbollah and others to drive the Jews out from Israel condemns the area to endless war.
         The only way out of this mess is for both sides to accept the existence of the other. A two state solution seems like the only viable way, in which neither side gets what they want, but both sides get enough so that the war and killing ends.
          This means no longer pursuing the absolutist goal of driving out the Jews, and failing to see that pursuing this goal means there will always be war. Where does Hamas, Iran and others that want the Jews out expect them to go? Do they really think that the millions of Israelis originally from the middle east, North Africa and Asia, and who have been living in Israel for the past 70 years and more, will return to hostile lands from where their families originated? Places that include Syria, Yemen, Iran, Iraq, Libya, Egypt, Afghanistan where they will surely be persecuted?
          Israelis have no place to go. Their backs are to the wall. The sooner the Islamist Jihadist dream of destroying the small country of Israel ends, the sooner all the people of that small region, Israelis, Arabs and others, will be able to reach a peaceful accommodation.
          
       

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