Iraqi and Arab Jews - Media Silent on Ethnic Cleansing

international | rights, freedoms and repression | news report Monday July 28, 2003 20:03 by Niamh

No-one bothers about these people

For more than 50 years, the plight of Palestinian refugees has remained at center stage of discussions of Middle East politics. The United Nations has passed dozens of resolutions deploring the status of refugees in that region and Arab representatives continue to insist on the Palestinians' "right of return" as a prerequisite to lasting peace between Arabs and Israelis.

Lost in this discussion, however, has been the memory of another flood of refugees created for the most part at the same time as the original Palestinian refugees left their home. This "forgotten exodus" of Jews from Arab lands involved just as many displaced people, and in some cases resulted in the virtual extinction of historic communities.

Please read the link to the article in Rocky Mountain News