Iraqi and Arab Jews - Media Silent on Ethnic Cleansing

by Badman Mon Jul 28, 2003 20:20

for the jewish refugees as well as the Palestinians. Or is this just another piece of zionist spam and do you only care about 'your' side.

SPAM, delete.

by johnfrancis Tue Jul 29, 2003 14:58

the air lift of iraqi jews is mentioned. zionists 'encouraging' jews to leave iraq bombed many of the jewish neighborhoods. this created fear and paranoia amongst a well established and moneyed strata of iraqi society.

by kokomero Tue Jul 29, 2003 15:42

Is this the best argument Israel and its' excusers such as Niamh can put forward to prevent the right of return of Palestinians to their homes in occupied Palestine?

Surely now that the "coallition of the willing" has "won" its war with Iraq and are in "control" of that country they can guarantee the right of return of Iraqi Jews to Iraq?

Since its founding one of Israel's main goals was to change the demography of Palestine and Jerusalem, by luring --even by coercing-- Jews to emigrate to Israel, (over other countries,) hence, dispossessing more Palestinians. In a visit to the U.S. in Feb 1987 Yitzhak Shamir asked secretary Shultz to stop offering special refugee status to Soviet Jews. (See New York Times article Israel Asking U.S. to Bar Soviet Jews by Ari Goldman 03/01/1987) Hence, once again Zionism is interested in Jews as number-boosters rather than caring about their well being and "freedom" per se. In addition, there were indications that Israel's frenzy of wanting Jews (especially Arab Sephardic ones) to go to Israel, have reached the level of getting Israeli secret agents to terrorize some Arab Jewish communities in their countries. Examples of this are in the case of Iraqi Jews, 125,000 of whom (97%) fled to Israel in the early 50's. (See David Hirst The Gun and the Olive Branch pp. 155-64, 1984 quoted in Ruether's The Wrath of Jonah, 1989, and "Ropes of Sand", Eveland, 1980).

"The main difference between Bosnia and Palestine is that ethnic cleansing in the former took place in the form of dramatic massacres and slaughters which caught the world's attention, whereas in Palestine what is taking place is a drop-by-drop tactic in which one or two houses are demolished daily, a few acres are taken here and there every day, a few people are forced to leave" --Edward Said (Washington Report 09/1998)

"The human rights organization Amnesty International said in a report in December that Israel has made about 16,700 Palestinians homeless by destroying at least 2,650 houses since 1987" --From an AP report on home demolitions by Israel dated 04/23/2000.

"The demolition and sealing of houses are among the most severe methods of punishment used by the authorities against Palestinians in the Occupied Territories. To our knowledge, this harsh form of punishment is unique to Israel and is not employed by any other nation. Demolition and sealing of houses in the territories contravene international law that prohibits collective punishment and arbitrary injury to property." -- B'Tselem, an Israeli Human Rights Organization. (http://www2.iol.co.il/btselem/)

"... we have no solution, that you shall continue to live like dogs, and whoever wants to can leave -- and we will see where this process leads? In five years we may have 200,000 less people -- and that is a matter of enorous importance." -- Moshe Dayan encouraging the transfer of Gaza strip refugees to Jordan (from Noam Chomsky's Deterring Democracy, 1992, p.434, quoted in Nur Masalha's A Land Without A People, 1997 p.92).

"It is an open secret that Israeli policy makers hoped for a massive emigration of Palestinians as a result of economic and demographic pressure. Therefore, they also developed a clever system which caused numerous Palestinians born here to lose their residency rights when they went to work or study abroad." -- Amira Hass in 08/26/1998 Ha'aretz Op'Ed titled The Settlers are Not to Blame.

While campaigning for the prime ministership, Binyamin Netanyahu Criticized his Labor party opponents for missing an opportunity during the Tiannamen Square massacre. "Had he been prime minister, he said, he would have seized the chance then, while the world was watching China, to carry out the transfer of the Palestinians." -- p. 137 Washington Report 09/1998

"I don't sign orders to destroy the houses of Jews, only of Arabs," -- Haim Miller, deputy mayor of Jerusalem and acting mayor in Olmert's absence, quoted in Yediot Aharonot, Feb. 7, 1998.

"[Israel will] create in the course of the next 10 or 20 years conditions which would attract natural and voluntary migration of the refugees from the Gaza Strip and the west Bank to Jordan. To achieve this we have to come to agreement with King Hussein and not with Yasser Arafat." -- Yitzhak Rabin (a "Prince of Peace" by Clinton's standards), explaining his method of ethnically cleansing the occupied land without stirring a world outcry. (Quoted in David Shipler in the New York Times, 04/04/1983 citing Meir Cohen's remarks to the Kenesset's foreign affairs and defense committee on March 16.)

Apparently, Rabin's method of "creating conditions that will prompt Palestinian migration" wasn't as efficient as desired, therefore, house demolitions and rejection of building permits to Palestinians were adopted as additional measures.

In 1900 there were about 550,000 Palestinians and 50,000 Jews. Palestinians. Today, despite the extremely high birth-rate of the Palestinians, there are about 900,000 Palestinians (Israeli-Arabs, who own 4 percent of Israel) in Israel, 4.5 million Jews (owning 96 percent of Israel), and about 2.5 million Palestinians crammed in a small, highly-dense and disconnected areas in the occupied territories.

by Fraggle Rock Thu Jul 31, 2003 12:17

The only solution is the creation of one non sectarian levantine state.

No More Israel.
No More Syria.
No More Lebanon.
No More Jordan.

Death to Zionism.
Death to Islam.

If God is not dead we must kill him.

by NIamh Sun Aug 03, 2003 23:33

If you people really were unbiased, as you pretend to be, you would be devoting as much time and webspace to Jewish sufferings as you do to those of the Arabs. However, I don't see that on this site: all I see is contributor after contributor ranting about Israel. This is the proof that you are anti-Semitic.

by kokomero Tue Aug 05, 2003 13:18

then stay out of the fire. If you have a good case to make for Israel then make it and stop whining. This site is free and open to all. As somebody once said "Opinions are like assholes. Everyone has one but most of them stink!"