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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]]].

The was a cruel ethnic cleansing by the armed Arabs of the pious Jews in Jerusalem. The Jews of the old city, the dwelling of their families in Jerusalem going back for generations, were given one hour to pack.

There was a cruel [[ethnic cleansing]] by the armed Arabs of the pious Jews in [[Jerusalem]]. The Jews of the old city, the dwelling of their families in Jerusalem going back for generations, were given one hour to pack.

It has been documented: <i>the Arab Legion’s scorched-earth tactics that razed and burned to the ground every structure there, including all its synagogues and yeshivahs. The Arabs expelled all of the city’s residents, mainly defenseless, old Orthodox Jews. They were given about an hour to vacate homes that most extended families had lived in for centuries.</i><ref>Richard Pollock, "[https://www.jns.org/opinion/a-will-to-survive-recalls-arab-ethnic-cleansing-of-jerusalems-jews A Will to Survive’ recalls Arab ethnic cleansing of Jerusalem’s Jews]", JNS, August 12, 2021.

It has been documented: <i>the Arab Legion’s scorched-earth tactics that razed and burned to the ground every structure there, including all its synagogues and yeshivahs. The Arabs expelled all of the city’s residents, mainly defenseless, old Orthodox Jews. They were given about an hour to vacate homes that most extended families had lived in for centuries.</i><ref>Richard Pollock, "[https://www.jns.org/opinion/a-will-to-survive-recalls-arab-ethnic-cleansing-of-jerusalems-jews A Will to Survive’ recalls Arab ethnic cleansing of Jerusalem’s Jews]", JNS, August 12, 2021.

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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.</i></ref>

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>

See *[http://Jewishregugees.uk.org - Jewish Refugees] *[http://jimena.org Jimena]

See:

*[http://Jewishregugees.uk.org - Jewish Refugees]  

*[http://jimena.org Jimena]