Posted on 03/05/08
The other Israelis
Reams have been written about the Holocaust, the birth of Israel and the fate of Palestinian Arabs who became refugees in that process. But a related narrative has been neglected. During the same years, 900,000 Jews fled or were expelled from Arab countries in the Middle East and North Africa - often stripped of their citizenship, property and assets before being shown the door. These other refugees left territories where an indigenous Jewish presence predated the Muslim conquest by more than a millennium.
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