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'Arabs should accept responsibility for Jewish refugees'
Nir Cohen
Published: 03.04.12, 22:26
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1. Better late than never, this is terrific!! Hats off to you
hippocrates ,   earth   (04.03.12)
Ayalon, not get er done...and stay the course!
2. Yes, but we're jews........
Yonatan ,   USA   (04.03.12)
..... and we do not have international rights. The double standards will apply here, and this will not be recognize internationally...... always remember, it depends on who the victims are.
3. About Time Somebody Said It...
ACortez ,   Anaheim, CA, USA   (04.03.12)
How you like them apples Arabs?
4. ridiculous
rifat   (04.03.12)
Jews have no right to claim that they were refugees. They were expelled from Arab countries because they supported the zionist conspiracies and were at war with their host nations, who were treating them kindly, with only occasional massacres. Anyway, the Jews won the war, and the Arabs lost the war, and it is recognized by all that the powerless and weak losers are always right and the powerful and strong winners are always wrong.
5. nothing wrong with his statement
(04.03.12)
And readers would be missing an important point if they ignore his assertion that arab refugees can return to a future palestinian state. Partition with border adjustments will by necessity happen sooner or later.
6. Jewish refugees
Avi ,   Brasil   (04.03.12)
Thats the way to solve the "palestinian problem"
7. What "future palestinian state?"
Devorah   (04.03.12)
Is Alayon referring to Jordan?
8. To: No. 4
Sarah B ,   U.S.A. / Israel   (04.04.12)
" ... who were treating them kindly, with only occasional massacres." Oh. You're not the sharpest knife in the drawer, now, are you? DO YOU HAVE ANY IDEA HOW RIDICULOUS A STATEMENT THAT IS?
9. ayalon
yeshua sangalagi ,   tehran, iran   (04.03.12)
The titel of this article should be "arab and moslem" countries. Hundereds of thousand of jews became refugees from non arab moslen countries.
10. I am a refugee from Bagdad
Norbus ,   Jerusalem   (04.04.12)
My family split up over 3 continents, we lost our home and money, and a life together.. Askinaz in power failed to recognise the issue and let it go fallow.. Arabs could not believe their luck.. A bit late, but Arabs might see that their survival post oil wioll depend on Israeli technology providing their food. Pigs might fly.. but worth a shot.
11. Hold on, it's not over yet!
Paul ,   Jerusalem, Israel   (04.04.12)
Just like the Muslim States threw Jews out like dogs, no money, no possessions, no compensation for stolen property, causing years of conflict, Arab hatred will yet cause them more grief, more lost land, and more reason to bitch about Jews. The more they hate the more they will lose, the peace plan may be dead, but G-d's plan is alive.
12. #4 rifat - oops- I almost took you seriously
(04.04.12)
not “tongue in cheek.
13. Arab Jews
observer ,   Egypt   (04.04.12)
Arab Jews were seduced or forced by Zionists to leave their homes, while the Palestinians were expelled by the same Zionists. Most of the Jews Opted to leave Egypt to the west instead of Israel. In his book, The Arab Jews (2006), Yehouda Shenhav, an Israeli sociologist, traced the origins of the conceptualization of the Mizrahi Jews as Arab Jews. He interprets Zionism as an ideological practice with three simultaneous and symbiotic categories: "Nationality", "Religion" and "Ethnicity". In order to be included in the national collective they had to be "de-Arabized". According to Shenhav, Religion distinguished between Arabs and Arab Jews, thus marking nationality among the Arab Jews.
14. I hope he means Jordan as the Palestinian state.(end)
Maurice ,   Los Angeles, USA   (04.04.12)
15. You are an idiot!
John Doe ,   New York   (04.04.12)
Go back to the hole you came from, you ignorant animal!!! My family was expelled, and my family did not even know what Zionism smelled like, let alone understand what it meant!!! Kindly, you idiot, hit the propagand free history books!!! My ancestors were paying special taxes as dhimmies, were slapped on the face in public, wore special clothing, were forcefully converted, and had to construct their businesses a step below the ground - all because they were Jews! Shut up and do reveal how little history you know!!! What do you know?! Nothing! Except the propaganda you are fed!
16. Love those sharp comments!
John Doe ,   New York   (04.04.12)
17. 100% Correct!!!
John Doe ,   New York   (04.04.12)
18. I am a refugee from Aden
AL QUDS ALYAHUDI   (04.04.12)
The Jews were not safe in Aden. The last of the Jews left Aden in June 1967. by the help of the late headmaster of Selim Jewish School Abraham Marks, and by British Jews who have sent plane to Aden for the Jews to leave Aden. My family have lost fantastic business,money, gold,shop, six warehouses full of goods worth todays money at least 12-15 million dollars.
19. Observer Egypt no 13
AL QUDS ALYAHUDI ,   AL QUDS ALYAHUD Isra   (04.04.12)
Shame on you by telling B*****IT. Your forgot your dead hero Nasser when he kicked the Jews out of Egypt in 1956 & 1967. Jews lost much more than the Israeli Arabs who fled Israel.
20. Israel has found its spine.
Nathan Rai ,   Bangalore   (04.04.12)
Hats off for telling the world something that should have been said a long long time ago. On to the United Nations. Unless the UN implicitly thinks that normal life is not for the Jews.
21. So callled human rightists ignore Arab pogroms,crystal nacht
PETER SM ,   AUSTRALIA   (04.04.12)
robbery,ethnic cleansing and trashing of Synagogues cemetries etc. Cant expect much more from the likes of the UN HRC Tutu or Carter.
22. Islamic world apartheid clear to all except leftists &
PETER SM ,   AUSTRALIA   (04.04.12)
the usual crowd who only discover their humanitarian side when it suits their political agenda. How y'all doin' Jimmy C ?
23. Observer stop lying ! Your country had a crystallnacht, the
PETER SM ,   AUSTRALIA   (04.04.12)
Arab mob ran setting fire to Jewish properties just like the Nazis. Jews were ordered to leave,your brothers confiscated everything they could,even tried to steal wedding rings as the Jewish refugees tried to board the ships to leave. Save the taqiya,my relatives were there. Never mind I see your new rulers,ther Brotherhood are running a Presidential candidate after promising not to do so. The Mullahs did the same. Maybe taqiya just comes naturally to some.
24. Observer dont lie. Egypt had a crystallnacht,the Arab mob
PETER SM ,   AUSTRALIA   (04.04.12)
ran around setting fire to Jewish properties vetc,just like the Nazis. Jews were ordered to leave,your brothers confiscated and stole everything they could even tried to steal the wedding rings as the Jewish refugees were trying to board the ships. Save the taqiya,my relatives were there. I see your Brotherhood rulers have now broken their undertaking not to run a presidential candidate. Just like all the promises the Mullahs made as they hijacked the revolution for keeps. Seeems like taqiya comes naturally to some.
25. What state does Ayalon speak of?
James ,   Canada   (04.04.12)
So what State does Ayalon think the Palestinians refugees will be absorbed into? Certainly not one in the West Bank and Gaza...as very soon there will be nowhere left to house such a state with the illegal settlements taking up huge swaths of the West Bank already.
26. WORDS SACRED TO THEIR MASTERS USA JEWISH DIASPORA
daniel   (04.04.12)
the islamic encirclement around the only democracy in the middle east,has not done rather than closer over the last decades renovador dictatorships whose only reason being in the jihad,the holy war against the vicars of the great satan,for muslim believers,israel and the united states
27. Finally
Ivan ,   Haifa   (04.04.12)
jews calims their rights instead ignoring palestinians rights. Rights for both jews and palestinians who suffered
28. to MR#13 the Observer fro Egypt
daniela ,   panama   (04.04.12)
Just for you to know, Mr. Observer, I was born in Egypt,and also my father and mother. When Gamal Abdel Nasser overthrew King Faruk in 1953 he started inciting the masses against jews. My father was arrested in 1956, and was only released (no charges) after we agreed to leave the country with only 2 suitcases per family. No money no valuable items. Whatever item that pleased the authorities where taken. In my passport I have the words No return in arabic. We left home, we left property we left everyhting. But, MR. Observers, we jews are great at falling and bouncing back. None of the jews expelled from any arab country sits todday in a refugee camp. And I believe than none of the thousand jewish refugees has stayed in them more than a few months. You know why? because jews help each other to overcome difficult situation. We help our brothers to redo their lives. Not like all of you, rich arab countries that keep the refugee problem alive in order to forget your own problems.. What a shame... Yasher Koach Danny Ayalon. May you become next Prime Minister of Israel!!!!
29. I spelled Ayalon's name wrong @7 - no disrespect
Devorah   (04.04.12)
30. "Only occassional massacres"
Marvin ,   San Francisco, CA   (04.04.12)
Do you believe this guy Rifat - "only occassional massacres". What an piece of work
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