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| | At the time, Head of [[Muslim Brotherhood]] [[Hassan al-Banna]] declared: "If the Jewish state becomes a fact, and this is realized by the Arab peoples, they will drive the Jews who live in their midst into the sea"<ref>[https://www.nytimes.com/1948/08/02/archives/aim-to-oust-jews-pledged-by-sheikh-head-of-moslem-brotherhood-says.html Aim To Oust Jews Pledged By Sheikh; Head of Moslem Brotherhood Says U.S., British 'Politics' Has Hurt Palestine Solution. Special to THE NEW YORK TIMES By Dana Adams Schmidt, Aug. 2, 1948, page 4] ''CAIRO, Egypt, Aug. 1 -- Sheikh Hassan el-Bana, head of the Moslem Brotherhood, largest of the extremist Arab nationalist organizations, declared in an interview today: "If the Jewish state becomes a fact, and this is realized by the Arab peoples, they will drive the Jews who live in their midst into the sea ...''</ref> | | At the time, Head of [[Muslim Brotherhood]] [[Hassan al-Banna]] declared: "If the Jewish state becomes a fact, and this is realized by the Arab peoples, they will drive the Jews who live in their midst into the sea"<ref>[https://www.nytimes.com/1948/08/02/archives/aim-to-oust-jews-pledged-by-sheikh-head-of-moslem-brotherhood-says.html Aim To Oust Jews Pledged By Sheikh; Head of Moslem Brotherhood Says U.S., British 'Politics' Has Hurt Palestine Solution. Special to THE NEW YORK TIMES By Dana Adams Schmidt, Aug. 2, 1948, page 4] ''CAIRO, Egypt, Aug. 1 -- Sheikh Hassan el-Bana, head of the Moslem Brotherhood, largest of the extremist Arab nationalist organizations, declared in an interview today: "If the Jewish state becomes a fact, and this is realized by the Arab peoples, they will drive the Jews who live in their midst into the sea ...''</ref> |
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| | [[File:February 22, 1948.JPG|thumb|[https://books.google.com/books?id=D7p9DwAAQBAJ&pg=PA142#v=onepage&q&f=false Jews fleeing a bombing in Ben Yehudah Street, Feb 22, 1942]]]. | | [[File:February 22, 1948.JPG|thumb|[https://books.google.com/books?id=D7p9DwAAQBAJ&pg=PA142#v=onepage&q&f=false Jews fleeing a bombing in Ben Yehudah Street, Feb 22, 1942]]]. |
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| | "For the first time in 1,000 years not a single Jew remains in the Jewish Quarter. Not a single building remains intact. This makes the Jews' return here impossible."</blockquote> | | "For the first time in 1,000 years not a single Jew remains in the Jewish Quarter. Not a single building remains intact. This makes the Jews' return here impossible."</blockquote> |
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| | + | ''' Ethnic cleansing: Jews from Arab Muslim lands ''' |
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| | + | Bigotry in Arab Islamic countries led to explusion of over close yo a Million Jews. |
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| | + | Prior to 1948, approximately 950,000 Jews lived in Muslim countries of the [[Middle East]], [[North Africa]], and the [[Persian Gulf]].<ref>{{cite news |title=Group Spotlights Jews Who Left Arab Lands |author=Warren Hoge |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2007/11/05/world/middleeast/05nations.html?_r=1&ex=1352005200 |newspaper=The New York Times |date=November 5, 2007}}</ref> |
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| | + | As many as 870,000 Jews (persecuted by the Arab League as the “Jewish minority of Palestine”) were driven from, or fled, the Arab world at around the same time as the Palestinian refugees — and as a consequence of the same conflict, merely because Jews in Arab lands shared the same religion and ethnicity as Israelis.<ref>L Julius, "[https://www.thejc.com/comment/opinion/why-are-jews-so-quick-to-defend-our-enemies-1.521243 Why are Jews so quick to defend our enemies?]", JC, Oct 7, 2021. |
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| | + | Jewish schools must not teach their pupils a one-sided narrative of Palestinian victimhood... |
| | + | As many as 870,000 Jews (persecuted by the Arab League as the “Jewish minority of Palestine”) were driven from, or fled, the Arab world at around the same time as the Palestinian refugees — and as a consequence of the same conflict, merely because Jews in Arab lands shared the same religion and ethnicity as Israelis.</i><ref> |
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| | ==Further reading== | | ==Further reading== |
| | * Tucker, Spencer C., ed. ''The Encyclopedia of the Arab-Israeli Conflict A Political, Social, and Military History'' (4 vol. 2008) | | * Tucker, Spencer C., ed. ''The Encyclopedia of the Arab-Israeli Conflict A Political, Social, and Military History'' (4 vol. 2008) |
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| | [[Category:Israeli Wars]] | | [[Category:Israeli Wars]] |