STORY OF THE JEWISH PEOPLE
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FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS
ON JEWS FROM ARAB COUNTRIES
For Answers go to
Jimena - Jews Indigenous to North Africa and the Middle East
- What is a Dhimmi?
- What were Maabarot?
- What does UNRWA stand for?
- What does UNHCR have to do with Jewish Refugees?
- Does UN Security Council Resolution 242 apply to Jewish Refugees?
- What was House Resolution 185?
- What was the Farhud?
- Why are you bringing this up now since Jewish refugees were absorbed?
- Weren’t most Jews Zionists who wanted to go to Israel anyway, isn’t that part of being Jewish?
- Have the Middle Eastern Jews living in Israel succeeded?
- Were Jewish refugees from Arab states treated differently than the Arab refugees from Palestine?
- Shouldn’t the Jews from Arab states be invited to return to their former homes?
- Wasn’t the Arab backlash against Middle Eastern and North African Jews understandable because of the Arab-Israeli conflict?
- Shouldn’t the Palestinian issue be dealt with separately from the Jewish refugees from Arab states?
- Who are the Jews of the Middle East and North Africa?
- Is there a connection between the Palestinian issue and the Jewish refugees from Arab states?
- Was there any coordination between Arab governments in the expulsions of the Middle Eastern and North African Jews?
- What is Henna?
- What is Mimouna?
- What is Arab Nationalism?
- What is the Talmud?
- What are Piyut?
- What are refugees?
- What is a Rosh Hashanah Seder?
- What was Operation Ezra and Nehemiah?
- What was Operation Magic Carpet?
- Did the Egyptian Government ever put its Jewish Community members in Concentration Camps?
- What was the Giado Concentration Camp?
- What was the Egyptian Nationality Code of 1926 and how did it impact the Egyptian Jewish community?
- What does Coca-Cola have to do with the expropriation of Jewish owned property?
- What is a Laissez-Passer?
- What were the 1969 Hangings in Iraq?
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FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS
ON JEWS FROM ARAB COUNTRIES
For Answers go to
Justice for Jews From Arab Countries
- Who were the Jews from Arab Countries?
- What was the status of the Jews in Arab Counties?
- Why did they leave?
- Was here any coordination between Arab governments in the displacement of the Middle Eastern and North African Jews?
- Were Jews displaced from Arab Countries really refugees?
- Didn’t Jews fleeing Arab Countries come to Israel to fulfill the Zionist dream of Aliyah and not because they were refugees?
- Why has little been heard about these Jewish refugees?
- Were Jewish refugees from Arab states treated any differently than the Palestinian Arab refugees?
- Even if they were refugees, do they have any rights to-day, over half a century later, when they are no longer refugees?
- What is the estimated value of properties lost?
- Shouldn't the Palestinian issue be dealt with separately from the Jewish refugees from Arab states?
- Isn’t this Just an attempt to Divert Attention away from the Rights of Palestinian refugees?
- Why not just give Jews from Arab states the ‘right of return’ to their former homes?
- Why is it important to deal with now? Isn’t this another impediment in the Peace Process?
FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS
ON JEWS FROM ARAB COUNTRIES