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	<title>Comments on: The Myth of Jewish Refugees from Arab Land</title>
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		<title>By: M. Taylor</title>
		<link>http://dissidentvoice.org/2007/05/the-myth-of-jewish-refugees-from-arab-land/#comment-62021</link>
		<dc:creator>M. Taylor</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 11 Dec 2009 22:12:19 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Dear Dr. Akleh,

Your article is so so biased.  You can be fair to your own people and yet still be fair to the Jews.  You should be ashamed.  I have met so many Jews who were kicked out of Arab lands.  It is easy to document the facts on this.  You were also not telling the truth about other things.  You should hang your head in shame.

Sincerely,

M. Taylor</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Dear Dr. Akleh,</p>
<p>Your article is so so biased.  You can be fair to your own people and yet still be fair to the Jews.  You should be ashamed.  I have met so many Jews who were kicked out of Arab lands.  It is easy to document the facts on this.  You were also not telling the truth about other things.  You should hang your head in shame.</p>
<p>Sincerely,</p>
<p>M. Taylor</p>
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		<title>By: rachamim ben ami</title>
		<link>http://dissidentvoice.org/2007/05/the-myth-of-jewish-refugees-from-arab-land/#comment-50761</link>
		<dc:creator>rachamim ben ami</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 27 Jul 2009 07:19:31 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Jews were treated &quot;better&quot; in Arab lands? That is like telling Armenians that they had &quot;better&quot; treatment by Turks, than the Jews did by Nazis.

As a &quot;Jews from an Arab land&quot; I could only laugh at the ignorance being spread by this author. Perhaps he might have talked about what &quot;al Dhimmi&quot; means in Islamic Law (Shari&#039;a). Yes, Jews were afforded a special status along with Christians and &quot;Sabeans,&quot; all collectively known as &quot;Ahl al Khitab&quot; (People of the Book).

Unlike pagans who were usually slaughtered, we were forbidden from testifying in court or bringing suit, from building our tallest building within half a meter of the lowest Muslim owned building, from voting, from taking a conveyance while ANY Muslim walked, had to wear identifying clothing, were killed for intermarrying though our women were often taken at will (still taking place in Yemen mind you) and many other tokens of the &quot;esteem&quot; felt toward to us.

While it is true that Arabs never managed to mechanise the process as the Europeans eventually did, they did not suffer from a lack of trying. Blood Libel took place (my own direct ancestor died in the 1834 Damascus Blood Libel Pogrom), and so on. My own grandfather and eldest uncle were murdered as well.

Oh, and lest any fools believe the fantasy about Muslims allowing Jews to live freely in Jerusalem? My grandfather and uncle were murdered in 1920, in Hebron. It IS true that for 22 years 7 Jewish familes WERE allowed to live in Jerusalem on orders of al Khalifa &#039;Umar (Caliph Omar) but only for showing him where the Temple Mount was, which he then promptly seized and barred us upon pain of death.

When Muslims ruled Jerusalem, as Jordan did from 48 to 67 they built public bathrooms faceing our holiest shrine, the so called &quot;Western Wall.&quot; The side that used the Wall as the 4th side was the place where they defecated. The author is either deliberately lying or extremely ignorant.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Jews were treated &#8220;better&#8221; in Arab lands? That is like telling Armenians that they had &#8220;better&#8221; treatment by Turks, than the Jews did by Nazis.</p>
<p>As a &#8220;Jews from an Arab land&#8221; I could only laugh at the ignorance being spread by this author. Perhaps he might have talked about what &#8220;al Dhimmi&#8221; means in Islamic Law (Shari&#8217;a). Yes, Jews were afforded a special status along with Christians and &#8220;Sabeans,&#8221; all collectively known as &#8220;Ahl al Khitab&#8221; (People of the Book).</p>
<p>Unlike pagans who were usually slaughtered, we were forbidden from testifying in court or bringing suit, from building our tallest building within half a meter of the lowest Muslim owned building, from voting, from taking a conveyance while ANY Muslim walked, had to wear identifying clothing, were killed for intermarrying though our women were often taken at will (still taking place in Yemen mind you) and many other tokens of the &#8220;esteem&#8221; felt toward to us.</p>
<p>While it is true that Arabs never managed to mechanise the process as the Europeans eventually did, they did not suffer from a lack of trying. Blood Libel took place (my own direct ancestor died in the 1834 Damascus Blood Libel Pogrom), and so on. My own grandfather and eldest uncle were murdered as well.</p>
<p>Oh, and lest any fools believe the fantasy about Muslims allowing Jews to live freely in Jerusalem? My grandfather and uncle were murdered in 1920, in Hebron. It IS true that for 22 years 7 Jewish familes WERE allowed to live in Jerusalem on orders of al Khalifa &#8216;Umar (Caliph Omar) but only for showing him where the Temple Mount was, which he then promptly seized and barred us upon pain of death.</p>
<p>When Muslims ruled Jerusalem, as Jordan did from 48 to 67 they built public bathrooms faceing our holiest shrine, the so called &#8220;Western Wall.&#8221; The side that used the Wall as the 4th side was the place where they defecated. The author is either deliberately lying or extremely ignorant.</p>
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		<title>By: Shlomo</title>
		<link>http://dissidentvoice.org/2007/05/the-myth-of-jewish-refugees-from-arab-land/#comment-37441</link>
		<dc:creator>Shlomo</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 29 Jan 2009 11:06:40 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>This guy is a liar! Is this how you people get your point of view across? As an Israeli I hope that one day our country, on behalf of our people publicly acknowledge, apologize, and financially compensate the descendants of Palestinian refugees from Israel during the War of Independence. Even though this war was started by the Arab nations with the explicitly stated goal of committing a genocide against the Jews in Israel/Palestine, and it could have been avoided in the first place if the Arab world agreed to any partition which would allow Jewish sovereignty and self-determination, like Muslims have 55 nations for, and Arabs have 22 for. Despite this, I don&#039;t deny the complicity of many of our founding fathers in creating the Palestinian refugee crisis. We should help them financially to either settle and be absorbed as full citizens in whatever country they are residing, be it Lebanon, Syria, Egypt, Jordan, or elsewhere, or if they prefer to gradually settle in a newly formed Palestinian state in the West Bank and the Gaza Strip, within approximately the 1967 borders. That is what I believe to be the moral action for Israel. But to deny what happened to Jews in Arab and Muslim lands, like this author does is simply despicable. My family, from Iraq was very wealthy. The Jews there had roots in the country for at least a thousand years before Islam came along. My parents lost everything. Their money, their land, their valuables, everything. Is this author calling them liars? Jews have never been truly accepted in Islamic lands. Sure, compared to the pogroms of Eastern Europe and the Holocaust, we were treated better, but there were our fair shares of persecution, too. 850,000 Jews didn&#039;t just leave their homes for centuries for no reason. Our situation was precarious at best and dangerous at worst. The riots and pogroms against Jews throughout the Arab and Islamic countries are too numerous to mention here. And being protected by the government on condition that we accept Dhimmi status is not too desirable either, surprisingly enough.  I acknowledge the fact that hundreds and thousands of Palestinians were displaced with the creation of Israel and the subsequent war for sovereignty, why must your side lie and erase the truth of our history?</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>This guy is a liar! Is this how you people get your point of view across? As an Israeli I hope that one day our country, on behalf of our people publicly acknowledge, apologize, and financially compensate the descendants of Palestinian refugees from Israel during the War of Independence. Even though this war was started by the Arab nations with the explicitly stated goal of committing a genocide against the Jews in Israel/Palestine, and it could have been avoided in the first place if the Arab world agreed to any partition which would allow Jewish sovereignty and self-determination, like Muslims have 55 nations for, and Arabs have 22 for. Despite this, I don&#8217;t deny the complicity of many of our founding fathers in creating the Palestinian refugee crisis. We should help them financially to either settle and be absorbed as full citizens in whatever country they are residing, be it Lebanon, Syria, Egypt, Jordan, or elsewhere, or if they prefer to gradually settle in a newly formed Palestinian state in the West Bank and the Gaza Strip, within approximately the 1967 borders. That is what I believe to be the moral action for Israel. But to deny what happened to Jews in Arab and Muslim lands, like this author does is simply despicable. My family, from Iraq was very wealthy. The Jews there had roots in the country for at least a thousand years before Islam came along. My parents lost everything. Their money, their land, their valuables, everything. Is this author calling them liars? Jews have never been truly accepted in Islamic lands. Sure, compared to the pogroms of Eastern Europe and the Holocaust, we were treated better, but there were our fair shares of persecution, too. 850,000 Jews didn&#8217;t just leave their homes for centuries for no reason. Our situation was precarious at best and dangerous at worst. The riots and pogroms against Jews throughout the Arab and Islamic countries are too numerous to mention here. And being protected by the government on condition that we accept Dhimmi status is not too desirable either, surprisingly enough.  I acknowledge the fact that hundreds and thousands of Palestinians were displaced with the creation of Israel and the subsequent war for sovereignty, why must your side lie and erase the truth of our history?</p>
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		<title>By: Jack Garbuz</title>
		<link>http://dissidentvoice.org/2007/05/the-myth-of-jewish-refugees-from-arab-land/#comment-24517</link>
		<dc:creator>Jack Garbuz</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 12 Jul 2008 04:36:15 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>P.S. The land was called Retenu by the Egyptians, Canaan in the Bible, and Kingdoms of Judah and Israel in the bible as well.  It was the Roman emperor Hadrian, who after crushing the final Jewish revolt in 135 AD (there were three major Jewish revolts against the Romans: 66-70, 115-117, and finally 132-135AD) who changed the name from Judea to Palestina to finally  severe it from the Jewish people once and for all. Subsequently, in all the centuries after it was conquered by the Arabs in 638 AD, Jerusalem was NEVER once made the seat of any Arab government or Muslim Caliphate. There certainly was never any sovereign nation their called Palestine. That was just a geographical label, like &quot;New England&quot; or Patagonia or Iberia. Hadrian must be rolling in his grave. The Roman empire is gone, and Israel is back.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>P.S. The land was called Retenu by the Egyptians, Canaan in the Bible, and Kingdoms of Judah and Israel in the bible as well.  It was the Roman emperor Hadrian, who after crushing the final Jewish revolt in 135 AD (there were three major Jewish revolts against the Romans: 66-70, 115-117, and finally 132-135AD) who changed the name from Judea to Palestina to finally  severe it from the Jewish people once and for all. Subsequently, in all the centuries after it was conquered by the Arabs in 638 AD, Jerusalem was NEVER once made the seat of any Arab government or Muslim Caliphate. There certainly was never any sovereign nation their called Palestine. That was just a geographical label, like &#8220;New England&#8221; or Patagonia or Iberia. Hadrian must be rolling in his grave. The Roman empire is gone, and Israel is back.</p>
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		<title>By: Jack Garbuz</title>
		<link>http://dissidentvoice.org/2007/05/the-myth-of-jewish-refugees-from-arab-land/#comment-24515</link>
		<dc:creator>Jack Garbuz</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 12 Jul 2008 04:18:25 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Also, after the failed revolts against the Romans in the first and second century, some Jews left Judea and went south to Arabia,  in what is called the Hijaz, and introduced the palm tree and the date, and some Bedouins claim the camel as well.  They successfully farmed the oases and founded the town of Yathrib, which centuries later came to be called Medina, to which Muhammad fled from Meccan persecution and was well received at first by the wealthy and powerful Jewish tribes there.  But, when they refused to accept him as their prophet or support him in his caravan raids against the pagan Meccans, when he gained much strength and power, he accused the Jews of treachery for not supporting him in his war with the Meccans, and ethnically cleansed them out of the Hijaz , but not before personally beheading hundreds and taking some of their women and children, not to mention all of their wealth from himself and his followers. Indeed, without the stolen Jewish wealth,  it is doubtful that Islam could have had the numbers of loyal tribesman (who received their share) to burst out of Arabia to conquer much of the known world.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Also, after the failed revolts against the Romans in the first and second century, some Jews left Judea and went south to Arabia,  in what is called the Hijaz, and introduced the palm tree and the date, and some Bedouins claim the camel as well.  They successfully farmed the oases and founded the town of Yathrib, which centuries later came to be called Medina, to which Muhammad fled from Meccan persecution and was well received at first by the wealthy and powerful Jewish tribes there.  But, when they refused to accept him as their prophet or support him in his caravan raids against the pagan Meccans, when he gained much strength and power, he accused the Jews of treachery for not supporting him in his war with the Meccans, and ethnically cleansed them out of the Hijaz , but not before personally beheading hundreds and taking some of their women and children, not to mention all of their wealth from himself and his followers. Indeed, without the stolen Jewish wealth,  it is doubtful that Islam could have had the numbers of loyal tribesman (who received their share) to burst out of Arabia to conquer much of the known world.</p>
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		<title>By: gail gray</title>
		<link>http://dissidentvoice.org/2007/05/the-myth-of-jewish-refugees-from-arab-land/#comment-8548</link>
		<dc:creator>gail gray</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 07 Nov 2007 09:27:27 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>the jewish settlers are  jews by religion, and eastern european   by race.   they are not the decendents of  abraham, they are the  anti semites, the palestians are true semites, true owners of the land.  the jews are thiefs and liars.  violent killers of  innocenet, unarmed, people.  they claim god gave them the land.  that is their  beleif,  their fantasy, it is not legal.  anyone in this country of seperation of church and state  who gives credence to this claim  should beleive in fairy tales.   these so called christian zionists are  not christian in any form.  they support a people who mock christians, spit on our cross, devile our places or worship and abuse our clergy.  shame on them and may God have mercy on their souls.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>the jewish settlers are  jews by religion, and eastern european   by race.   they are not the decendents of  abraham, they are the  anti semites, the palestians are true semites, true owners of the land.  the jews are thiefs and liars.  violent killers of  innocenet, unarmed, people.  they claim god gave them the land.  that is their  beleif,  their fantasy, it is not legal.  anyone in this country of seperation of church and state  who gives credence to this claim  should beleive in fairy tales.   these so called christian zionists are  not christian in any form.  they support a people who mock christians, spit on our cross, devile our places or worship and abuse our clergy.  shame on them and may God have mercy on their souls.</p>
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		<title>By: Omar</title>
		<link>http://dissidentvoice.org/2007/05/the-myth-of-jewish-refugees-from-arab-land/#comment-1839</link>
		<dc:creator>Omar</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 24 Jun 2007 11:43:12 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Dr. Elias - 

You were aware, surely, that Jews in Iran are generally not allowed to travel outside the country with family members? (i.e., if a jew wants to venture outside the borders of Iran,  he has to leave his family behind . . . ). I&#039;m no rocket scientist, but doesn&#039;t that make each &quot;retained&quot; family member somthing akin to a  hostage?</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Dr. Elias &#8211; </p>
<p>You were aware, surely, that Jews in Iran are generally not allowed to travel outside the country with family members? (i.e., if a jew wants to venture outside the borders of Iran,  he has to leave his family behind . . . ). I&#8217;m no rocket scientist, but doesn&#8217;t that make each &#8220;retained&#8221; family member somthing akin to a  hostage?</p>
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		<title>By: Alex S.</title>
		<link>http://dissidentvoice.org/2007/05/the-myth-of-jewish-refugees-from-arab-land/#comment-1286</link>
		<dc:creator>Alex S.</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 11 Jun 2007 05:16:09 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Not only were Jews like second class citizens, Coptic Christians in Egypt are treated as second class citizens TODAY.

Muslims have driven out almost the entire Christian community in Bethlehem and have built a mosque to overshadow the Church of the Nativity.  

As far as the nuttyeuri karta, let the Islamofascist Regime of Iran have them.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Not only were Jews like second class citizens, Coptic Christians in Egypt are treated as second class citizens TODAY.</p>
<p>Muslims have driven out almost the entire Christian community in Bethlehem and have built a mosque to overshadow the Church of the Nativity.  </p>
<p>As far as the nuttyeuri karta, let the Islamofascist Regime of Iran have them.</p>
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		<title>By: sheldon g</title>
		<link>http://dissidentvoice.org/2007/05/the-myth-of-jewish-refugees-from-arab-land/#comment-568</link>
		<dc:creator>sheldon g</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 24 May 2007 20:56:38 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Palestinian liberation NOW!</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Palestinian liberation NOW!</p>
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		<title>By: safi</title>
		<link>http://dissidentvoice.org/2007/05/the-myth-of-jewish-refugees-from-arab-land/#comment-140</link>
		<dc:creator>safi</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 07 May 2007 21:37:20 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>One thing to add-the huge issue concerning jews in Muslim countries was the fear that they were not being allowed to leave the country for Israel!  western governments had to pressure some of the Arab govts. to let the jews go, so this talk that they were actually kicked out is wrong.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>One thing to add-the huge issue concerning jews in Muslim countries was the fear that they were not being allowed to leave the country for Israel!  western governments had to pressure some of the Arab govts. to let the jews go, so this talk that they were actually kicked out is wrong.</p>
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		<title>By: Elias Akleh</title>
		<link>http://dissidentvoice.org/2007/05/the-myth-of-jewish-refugees-from-arab-land/#comment-135</link>
		<dc:creator>Elias Akleh</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 07 May 2007 07:26:29 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>LC, thanks for article on Jewish presence in Iran.

Kaz Gnik, there are no British consensus confirming your figures. Claims by politically motivated people carry no weight without proof. History proves Palestine was populated for the last 9,000 years. Archeological digs in ancient Jericho proves it. Also the Old Testament states that when Abraham fled to Palestine (not his native homeland) he found it populated with a lot of tribes. Palestine is part of what is called the “Fertile Crescent”. Many foreign rulers had attempted to occupy Palestine for its richness and its natural resources, and not for its “wasteland with no people and no veggitation”. 

As for Islam, I wish people study religion before condemning it. Islam is a religion that respects the other and calls nobody a “Goyim”. It recognizes true Judaism and Jews, and it recognizes Christianity and Christians and calls them “the people of the book”. Islam preaches respect and fair treatment for “people of the book”. Islam does not insult God by calling him a racist, who favors one people over the rest of his creations unlike the political fake fiendishly introduced religious beliefs to Judaic teachings that cite such insult as a holy right for Zionist Israel to exist on usurped Palestine. 

Evan, I would like to refer you to the diary of Zionist founder, Herzl, where he wrote “It is essential that the sufferings of Jews become worse, this will assist us in realization of our plans … I shall induce anti-semites to liquidate Jewish wealth … Anti-semites shall be our best friends”. History also tells of the Jewish Zionist terror group, the Haganah, who blew up the S.S. Patria ship in Haifa port murdering 268 illegal Jewish immigrants to Palestine in an attempt to win Western sympathy for Jewish immigration to Palestine. Many Zionist Jews held high military position in the German army and contributed to the Holocaust against non-Zionist Jews. Oral history by Palestinian eyewitnesses tells of blue-eyed foreign mercenaries, who attacked Jewish community in Hebron for refusing to join Zionism and claiming the slaughter on Arabs. History is full of many other such Zionist terrors.

It is the successive Israeli leaders, who make peace impossible, for they keep rejecting all Arab peace initiatives that promise to guarantee Israel’s security and complete diplomatic relationships between all Arab countries and Israeli state. 

The sad truth is that Arabs and Jews (descendents of Abraham) had lived in relative peace together for hundreds of years, until Zionism implanted hatred between them. Arabs had saved many Jews from European persecutions since the Crusaders, and had saved a lot of Jews from the Holocaust. Paris Grand Mosque was a refuge for persecuted Jews during WWII.  False religious beliefs and false interpretations of religion had been used to drive people into wars against each other. Judaism has been turned into Zionist nationalism. All religions teach of love, peace and harmony, not wars. God does not want us to fight his wars. The war between Arabs and Jews is fattening the Western military and financial giant corporations. 

For further education please check the following:
&quot;Among the righteous: lost stories from the Holocaust&#039;s long reach into Arab Lands&quot;  book by historian/researcher Robert Satloff
www.jewsagainstzionism.com   (Torah True Jews)
www.nkusa.org   (orthodox Jews united against Zionism)</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>LC, thanks for article on Jewish presence in Iran.</p>
<p>Kaz Gnik, there are no British consensus confirming your figures. Claims by politically motivated people carry no weight without proof. History proves Palestine was populated for the last 9,000 years. Archeological digs in ancient Jericho proves it. Also the Old Testament states that when Abraham fled to Palestine (not his native homeland) he found it populated with a lot of tribes. Palestine is part of what is called the “Fertile Crescent”. Many foreign rulers had attempted to occupy Palestine for its richness and its natural resources, and not for its “wasteland with no people and no veggitation”. </p>
<p>As for Islam, I wish people study religion before condemning it. Islam is a religion that respects the other and calls nobody a “Goyim”. It recognizes true Judaism and Jews, and it recognizes Christianity and Christians and calls them “the people of the book”. Islam preaches respect and fair treatment for “people of the book”. Islam does not insult God by calling him a racist, who favors one people over the rest of his creations unlike the political fake fiendishly introduced religious beliefs to Judaic teachings that cite such insult as a holy right for Zionist Israel to exist on usurped Palestine. </p>
<p>Evan, I would like to refer you to the diary of Zionist founder, Herzl, where he wrote “It is essential that the sufferings of Jews become worse, this will assist us in realization of our plans … I shall induce anti-semites to liquidate Jewish wealth … Anti-semites shall be our best friends”. History also tells of the Jewish Zionist terror group, the Haganah, who blew up the S.S. Patria ship in Haifa port murdering 268 illegal Jewish immigrants to Palestine in an attempt to win Western sympathy for Jewish immigration to Palestine. Many Zionist Jews held high military position in the German army and contributed to the Holocaust against non-Zionist Jews. Oral history by Palestinian eyewitnesses tells of blue-eyed foreign mercenaries, who attacked Jewish community in Hebron for refusing to join Zionism and claiming the slaughter on Arabs. History is full of many other such Zionist terrors.</p>
<p>It is the successive Israeli leaders, who make peace impossible, for they keep rejecting all Arab peace initiatives that promise to guarantee Israel’s security and complete diplomatic relationships between all Arab countries and Israeli state. </p>
<p>The sad truth is that Arabs and Jews (descendents of Abraham) had lived in relative peace together for hundreds of years, until Zionism implanted hatred between them. Arabs had saved many Jews from European persecutions since the Crusaders, and had saved a lot of Jews from the Holocaust. Paris Grand Mosque was a refuge for persecuted Jews during WWII.  False religious beliefs and false interpretations of religion had been used to drive people into wars against each other. Judaism has been turned into Zionist nationalism. All religions teach of love, peace and harmony, not wars. God does not want us to fight his wars. The war between Arabs and Jews is fattening the Western military and financial giant corporations. </p>
<p>For further education please check the following:<br />
&#8220;Among the righteous: lost stories from the Holocaust&#8217;s long reach into Arab Lands&#8221;  book by historian/researcher Robert Satloff<br />
<a href="http://www.jewsagainstzionism.com" rel="nofollow">http://www.jewsagainstzionism.com</a>   (Torah True Jews)<br />
<a href="http://www.nkusa.org" rel="nofollow">http://www.nkusa.org</a>   (orthodox Jews united against Zionism)</p>
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		<title>By: kaz gnik</title>
		<link>http://dissidentvoice.org/2007/05/the-myth-of-jewish-refugees-from-arab-land/#comment-107</link>
		<dc:creator>kaz gnik</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 04 May 2007 14:28:56 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>What a crock!
in the 1800s england did a cencious of &quot;palistine&quot; and found 18,000 jews
and 12,000 arabs. mark twain said it was a wasteland with no people and no veggitation. now that the jews have came back to the home land it has bloomed, just as the bible said it would fullfilling prophecie.
Islam is a curse upon the hole middle east , a perpetual wasteland filled with murders and hatred as its core teachings of the area thanks to the false prophet muhamed and his demonic imitation of god. there will be no peace in the middle east as long as islam reigns with corruption and violence, as perscribed inthe unholy koran</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>What a crock!<br />
in the 1800s england did a cencious of &#8220;palistine&#8221; and found 18,000 jews<br />
and 12,000 arabs. mark twain said it was a wasteland with no people and no veggitation. now that the jews have came back to the home land it has bloomed, just as the bible said it would fullfilling prophecie.<br />
Islam is a curse upon the hole middle east , a perpetual wasteland filled with murders and hatred as its core teachings of the area thanks to the false prophet muhamed and his demonic imitation of god. there will be no peace in the middle east as long as islam reigns with corruption and violence, as perscribed inthe unholy koran</p>
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		<title>By: lc</title>
		<link>http://dissidentvoice.org/2007/05/the-myth-of-jewish-refugees-from-arab-land/#comment-106</link>
		<dc:creator>lc</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 04 May 2007 06:28:40 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Evan: go to:  www.mrzine.org there&#039;s an article&quot;On the Jewish presence in Iranian history&quot;.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Evan: go to:  <a href="http://www.mrzine.org" rel="nofollow">http://www.mrzine.org</a> there&#8217;s an article&#8221;On the Jewish presence in Iranian history&#8221;.</p>
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		<title>By: Evan</title>
		<link>http://dissidentvoice.org/2007/05/the-myth-of-jewish-refugees-from-arab-land/#comment-73</link>
		<dc:creator>Evan</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 03 May 2007 04:28:59 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>You have got to be kidding me there is so much wrong with this entire post but i&#039;ll just pick a few choice examples.  

What exactly is your evidence that Jews firebombed the Synagogues in Arab Countries?  You make claims the Palestinians would never do such things as leave their homes and offer no evidence but then you make up evidence to show Jews destroying their own property

At the time of the Jewish Refuges the United States was giving Israel very little aid.  It didn&#039;t pick up until the 60s.  So the United States didn&#039;t feed, resettled or compensate anyone.

The only truth in this entire thing is that your part of the Palestinian group that makes peace impossible because you spread lies.  Israel aren&#039;t saints but if there is ever to be peace is  only going to be based on the truth and not your outlandish assumptions and lies.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>You have got to be kidding me there is so much wrong with this entire post but i&#8217;ll just pick a few choice examples.  </p>
<p>What exactly is your evidence that Jews firebombed the Synagogues in Arab Countries?  You make claims the Palestinians would never do such things as leave their homes and offer no evidence but then you make up evidence to show Jews destroying their own property</p>
<p>At the time of the Jewish Refuges the United States was giving Israel very little aid.  It didn&#8217;t pick up until the 60s.  So the United States didn&#8217;t feed, resettled or compensate anyone.</p>
<p>The only truth in this entire thing is that your part of the Palestinian group that makes peace impossible because you spread lies.  Israel aren&#8217;t saints but if there is ever to be peace is  only going to be based on the truth and not your outlandish assumptions and lies.</p>
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