A post by Maynard
This chart pretty much says it all. After the birth of modern Israel (“The Catastrophe”), hundreds of thousands of local Jews were driven out of the nearby lands where they had lived since Biblical times.
| Country or territory | 1948 Jewish population |
Estimated Jewish population 2001 |
|---|---|---|
| Aden | 8,000 | ~0 |
| Algeria | 140,000 | ~0 |
| Egypt | 75,000-80,000 | ~100 |
| Iraq | 135,000-140,000 | ~200 |
| Lebanon | 5,000 | < 100 |
| Libya | 35,000-38,000 | 0 |
| Morocco | 250,000-265,000 | 5,230 |
| Syria | 15,000-30,000 | ~100 |
| Tunisia | 50,000-105,000 | ~1,000 |
| Yemen | 45,000-55,000 | ~200 |
| Total | 758,000 – 866,000 | <6,500 |
The Jewish refugees actually outnumber the Palestinian refugees who fled the war zone as the Arab armies (of Egypt, Syria, Jordan, Lebanon, and Iraq) moved in for the kill in 1948. So why is there no long-term Jewish refugee crisis to parallel the endless Palestinian refugee crisis? Because the Jewish refugees were absorbed into Israel, which is the only Jewish state and the only place in the world that will accept unlimited Jewish refugees.
In case you’re thinking that maybe the regional Jews voluntarily abandoned their homes and properties and livelihoods to flee to Israel, note (for example) this threat by Egyptian UN delegate Heykal Pasha, made during UN discussions of the proposed partition that would create Israel and Palestine in 1947. This is from the UN archives, and warns of massive retribution against Jews in Arab lands in the event of the creation of a Jewish state:
A million Jews live in peace in Egypt [and other Muslim countries] and enjoy all rights of citizenship. They have no desire to emigrate to Palestine. However, if a Jewish State were established, nobody could prevent disorders. Riots would break out in Palestine, would spread through all the Arab states and might lead to a war between two races.
In other words, Jews are tolerated as long as they accept their status as second-class citizens. But if there are any uppity Jews out there, we will punish all the Jews we can get our hands on.
Meanwhile, the Palestinian refugee crisis, which could easily have been ended long ago, is artificially perpetuated for no other purpose than to fan the flames of anti-Semitic hatred in preparation for further wars against Israel.
Read further details of the expulsion of Middle-Eastern Jews here and in Wikipedia.
And in the present day, ex-president and eternal disgrace Jimmy Carter is making the rounds signing his book in which he accuses Israel of being an apartheid state.
So…I’m not the only one who sees Jimmy Carter as an “eternal disgrace”.
In my view Jimmy Carter went from being the worst president of the 20th century to being the worst ex president of the 21st century. For me his only redeeming period was the time he spent working on Habitat for Humanity.
This looks like a good start to me.
James Baker
The loathsome jimmy carter is the “Midwife of islamofascism.” He is every bit as evil as adolf ahmadjinedad. In fact, carter is responsible for the current iranian regime’s existence. had he had one tenth the courage of Reagan or GW Bush, he’d have killed the islamic republic around a week after our embassy was seized in 1979. carter is a blight on the nation and a disgraceful antisemitic loser.