The Hon Jason Kenny, Senior Minister in the Harper government of Canada sent this email out yesterday. Not only is Canada going to study the Jewish refugees from Arab lands but they say it is an important part of the Arab-Israeli conflict.
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Yesterday, the House of Commons Standing Committee on Foreign Affairs and International Development began its study on the issue of Jewish refugees from Arab countries in the Middle East and North Africa.
Between 1948 and the early 1970’s, over 850,000 Jews were displaced as a result of the Arab-Israeli conflict. In some instances Jewish refugees fled state-sanctioned persecution and violence, and in other instances they were expelled.
These pogroms resulted not only in the confiscation and loss of property without compensation, but in the uprooting of ancient Jewish communities from their countries of residence. Many of these once-flourishing communities no longer exist.
The Government of Canada initiated this study to learn more about this little-known, but important part of the Arab-Israeli conflict, which has not been reflected in Canadian policy.
Please feel free to follow the study and read the witness testimony at the following link: http://www.parl.gc.ca/CommitteeBusiness/CommitteeHome.aspx?Cmte=FAAE&Language=E&Mode=1&Parl=41&Ses=1
I welcome your feedback on this matter.
Sincerely,
Hon. Jason Kenney, PC, MP
MERCI!
@ Ted Belman:
Thank you, Ted. Well done.
I sent the lowing letter to PM stephen Harper, Hon Jason Kenny and Amb Paul Hunt.
I was very please to read of Canada’s new initiative, namely to do a study of Jewish Refugees and to factor it into your diplomacy on the Arab-Israeli conflict.
Please expand that study to included the Jewish refugees from Judea and Samaria and east Jerusalem during the 48 War.
I am attaching my latest article on the subject.
This article will be published on Sunday by American Thinker and others, Israpundit included.
I hope it is continued, apparently no one else is doing this.
If you are looking for established communities 100 years ago that were displaced, it is usual to overlook that Palestine was then drenched in malaria, rendering it either uninhabitable in many areas or thinly populated. You may be interested and surprised by http://www.eradication-of-malaria.com . So if you are looking for displaced Jews in that area, Jews who had lived in the Old City of Jerusalem for generations were expelled by the Arabs in 1948, but presumably could return after 1967.