The Forgotten Refugees - 1,000,000 Jews Expelled (Part 1)

In 1945 there were up to one million Jews living in the Middle East and North Africa outside the Palestine Mandate - many living in ... all » communities dating back more than three millennia. Today, there are only several thousand remaining.

Who are these Jews? What precipitated their mass-exodus in the 20th century? Where did they go? And why do we always hear about the Palestinian refugees, but didn't even know these Jewish refugees existed?

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[nn g]

I really recommand you to read more about history. You will see that many jews historians showed that a great proportion of israelis called ashkénazes are in reality the descendants of khazars (turcs) who converted to judaism in 7th century and they are not hebrews and not semites. Also a great number of palestinians are in reality hebrews converted to christianity and islam. Tragically and ironically,These ashkénazes are the fonders of the sionism mouvement!!

[toria555]

Israel was never a "land", it was tribes of Jacob in the bible not the Apartheid country it is today. The Palestinians are a people and they are made up of Arabs, Christians and Jews...Yes, there are Jewish Palestinians & they consider themselves Palestinian NOT Israeli. Palestinians have been living there longer than the USA has been a country. That is their homeland, they shouldn't have to leave. Israel should leave the Palestinians alone & stop the ethnic cleansing. You're a certified idiot.

[nn g]

Open your eyes! Israel's historians spoke about massacres. Is it palestinians who killed hundreds of civils villagers in 1948. who was responsible of the massacre of 700 to 3500 civils in the refugges camps of Sabra and Chatila? Who used prohobited weapons in Gaza causing the death of more than 1300 civils including 410 child? why Israel refused to ratify the treaty of the International Criminal courses? And who holds the media in the west to propagande their image? is it always palestinians?

[merryroach]

There was no such thing as "Land of Palestine"!!! It was just a series of foreign empires conquering it from each other and ruling over that land and the people inside it, which used to be the land of Israel before them and still is today! Get over it. The Arab Palestinians of today have 22 Arab countries where they can go to, where they speak Arabic and practice Islam in peace. Leave the tiny little Jewish country alone!

[toria555]

Most of the Jews that lived in the land of Palestine had converted to Islam thousands of years ago. The Jews that live their now are European Jews mostly from what is now modern day Iraq not Palestine. So they have no ancestral ties. And really that whole thing about ancestry is a bunch of BS. My roots are from Germany does that mean I have rights to that land cuz my family once lived there? No, it doesn't. 2 wrongs don't make a right. Stop making excuses for the apartheid state of Israel.

[merryroach]

The Muslim Palestinians are the ones who started the massacres of Jewish Palestinians under the British rule! The Muslims Arabs NEVER had sovereign country there and they were the ones who invaded historic Jewish lands! You completely ignore the fact that Jews had been living there for thousands of years before Islam was , and the Arabs arrived to "Palestine" from all the rest of the Arab world, mainly Egypt, Syria, Iraq etc. Their homelands are still there waiting for them! Leave Israel alone!

[merryroach]

LOL!!!! All of which have been already proved as exaggerations and lies by the Palestinian propaganda machine, which are experts in spreading lies and hate about Israel.

Palestinians had been massacring Israelis throughout history just as well! The Palestinians are not innocent in this whole story! Stop crying about the past and start building yourselves up instead of investing all your efforts on destroying Israel. It's a waste of time, money and energy. Israel will never disappear.

[nn g]

What is going on in Syria should not make you forget many memorables massacres: Dir yassin, Jinin, Sabra and Chatila, Gaza...and also occupation, wall separation and apartheid system. But i agree with you concerning to learn from "jews" about building themselves even if we know that they are supported military, financially and politically by US and west!!

[nn g]

If you are talking about a religious promise. It suppose that this promise was made to believers. The question is: Are they concidered as believers even after killing prophets, disbelieved them and refuting the message of God? Did you know how many israel atheists live in Palestine "in the name of God" but they dont believe in him, in fact. Did you know that jews lived in palestine with christians and muslims before the creation of sionism mouvement and no muslim oblige them to leave Palestine.

[nn g]

is it a promise based on religious or ethnic point? Because ethnically, it was shown by many jews historians that the actual "Israel's people" are from différent origins. The israelians ashkénazes for example are the descendants of khazars (turcs) who converted to judaism in the 7th century. More, it was shown by many historians that a great number of palestinians are in reality the descendants of jews conversing to christianity and islam...