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UN photo archive tells story of Palestinian exodus
Associated Press
Published: 16.05.14, 00:41
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31. #6
Harold ,   USA   (05.16.14)
Yes the UN can show pictures of the planes that airlifted 120,000 Iraqi Jews to Israel via Iran and Cyprus and the plan called OPERATION EZRA & NEHEMIAH. The same or similar plans were used in many other Arab countries airlifting the Jews to Israel.
32. To: No. 31
Sarah B ,   U.S.A. / Israel   (05.16.14)
Ignoramus, don't you EVER check facts? The United Nations never airlifted Jews ANYWHERE. Jews from Iraq were airlifted out by the Jewish Agency. Their situation was deemed the most dire, as many hundreds had been killed already. Following that, the plight of Jews in Yemen was also critical. Entire extended families were slaughtered, and it was not until enormous pressure by the likes of Albert Einstein and Chaim Weizmann had been applied to the U.K. that the British agreed to allow the desperate Yemeni Jews temporary haven in Aden. The airlift of these Jews to Israel was actually conducted by volunteer bush pilots from Alaska. Morocco, Tunisia, Libya, Egypt, Iran and other countries refused to allow airlifts. Algeria permitted them, of course, but keep in mind that Algeria in 1948 was a department of France. In 1963, when Ben Bela expelled what was left of the Jewish community in Algeria -- most in Constantine -- they were forced out with nothing but the clothes on their backs. There are excellent photographic archives, and filmed archives, of the extraordinary suffering that the Jewish people throughout North Africa and in Iraq, Yemen and other places endured at the hands of Arabs and Moslems. But you wouldn't be interested in that. It is amazing the depths to which your anti-Semitism causes you to sink. You are a poster child for moral turpitude.
33. Holocaust denial, Nakba denial, is same thing, racist haters
Steve Benassi ,   Silver Bay, MN USA   (05.16.14)
34. #32 Sarah B.
Harold ,   USA   (05.16.14)
i just say "I KNOW THE TRUTH AND YOU DON'T" I was there and you were not. You just read trouble makers' books and post your comments. Stop wasting your time because you are stupid like the books' writers.
35. # 34 Harold WISE UP and STOP LYING!
BUILD BABY BUILD !!!   (05.16.14)
You know nothing but hatred of a superior people, the Jews. May G-d have mercy on your worthless sick self. ALWAYS BUILDING ISRAEL G-ds Country. !!!!
36. To: No. 34
Sarah B ,   U.S.A. / Israel   (05.16.14)
Where were you? Iraq? Yemen? Morocco? Algeria? Tunisia? Egypt? Libya? Can you be a little more specific, please? Harold, you wouldn't know the truth if it got up and bit you in the @$$. I hope that never happens -- you're brain-damaged enough as it is.
37. To: Tim at No. 22
Sarah B ,   U.S.A. / Israel   (05.16.14)
It's because you're not American. "NC State University" told me all I needed to know.
38. # 24 Understanding sorrow
BUILD BABY BUILD !!!   (05.16.14)
the enemies of Israel are currently massacring one another in an exclusive blood bath called the Arab Spring. A nice saying for another mass muslim slaughter.... Notice not one pro pal addresses the subject. Either they could give a shit less or, their too embarrassed to admit how really mentally disturbed they are as a whole. BUILDING ISRAEL IS A MITZVAH!!!
39. # 23 may I answer? Let 'em eat rockets!!!
BUILD BABY BUILD !!!   (05.16.14)
BUILDING G-DS COUNTRY-- ISRAEL !!!!
40. The headline is mis-leading
William ,   Israel   (05.16.14)
The headline suggests photo evidence of the Pally narrative of the Nakba and resulting exodus. What the photos show is the results of this failed war on people over 2 decades later, where the UNRWA - a special agency set up just for them - was to be taking care of them but doesn't seem to be. There is no "exodus" the photos are showing at all. It's life in refugee camps, mostly kept that way by PLO and Arab leaders, with the politicized help of UNRWA, for Public Relations fodder against Israel. Shame on Arab leaders!
41. The most accurate statement in the article
William ,   Israel   (05.16.14)
and apparently a more common thought among Arabs than once believed... "Hassan Sattari is ambivalent about the aid. "Without UNRWA, there would have been greater pressure for a solution," he said."
42. #10 - yes but not in the narrative you support
William ,   Israel   (05.16.14)
Nakba - as result of a failed war of genocide against Jews, resulting in displaced persons...did occur. Nakba - as a result of systematic attacks and ethnic cleansing of Arabs by Jews and wanton destruction of their homes in order to claim the land as their own, did not. What's more damning is the 1975 photo of a mother and her malnourished child at the UN, 28 years after her parents fled the war torn area, despite the existence of UNRWA for their very benefit for about as long.
43. #35
Harold ,   USA   (05.17.14)
I know the truth and you don't because you are reading the same books Sarah B is using written by trouble makers. Always Build for somebody else. Soon you'll have a Two States decision and the superior people will have Palestinian citizenship living inside Palestine.
44. To: No. 43
Sarah B ,   U.S.A. / Israel   (05.18.14)
Actually, Harold, I do research. REAL research. I don't rely on secondary and tertiary sources. What books do you use as a reference point? Mein Kampf? The Turner Diaries? You really are out of touch. And you haven't answered my question. Where did you get your first-hand knowledge of Jews who were airlifted from hostile Arab lands? Tell us. It will go a LONG way towards retrieving some credibility. Right now, you have none. Most times, you sound like an idiot. When you crib (without attribution) from notoriously anti-Semitic websites, you sound like a parrot. Which is it? Are you an idiot, or are you just gullible?
45. Jews from Arab Countries Refugees
Ada Aharoni ,   Haifa, Israel   (05.21.14)
The story of the Palestinian refugees is well-known. What is not well known is the narrative of the Jews from Arab countries who are also refugees starting from 1948. These refugees are more than half of the citizens of Israel today, and if we want a peace treaty between Israel and Palestine, we have to take into consideration the story of the Jews form Arab countries as told by 73 people I interviewed who fled Egypt since 1948. Considering both sides of a conflict situation is the surest way to promote its solution. The name of my book is THE GOLDEN AGE OF THE JEWS FROM EGYPT: UPROOTING AND REVIVAL IN ISRAEL (Orion Publications 2014).
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