The Islamic Shura Council of Southern California is announcing on its website that a " peaceful human rights" protest will be held in front of the Israeli consulate in Los Angeles on March 29 from 3-7 pm. The protest will be entitled "Day of Land' and is being organized by Al Awda chapters of LA, Orange County and Riverside County chapters. Aw Awda is a group focused on the "right of return" of Palestinians.
https://shuracouncil.org/Calendar_MPreview.aspx?action=month&date=3/1/2013
Of course, there will be no "right of return" for the nearly one million Jews who were forced to leave Arab lands in 1948, many with little more than the clothes on their backs.
And peaceful? Hopefully, there will be no repeats of previous demonstrations in front of the the consulate when certain folks have yelled "Death to Jews" and other anti-Jewish chants.
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Sounds a lot like the Armenian demonstrations in front of Turkish embassies.
Nelly,
I think I do. Most estimates are between 600,000-700,000. What is clear is that Jews lived for centuries in Arab lands. Where are they now?
Jews lived in Arab lands for centuries, but after a bunch of European Jews colonized most of the Britisn Mandate of Palestine, all of a sudden those Jews in Arab lands found themselves viewed as a fifth column.
If the European Jews had stayed in Europe, those Jews in the Arab lands where they had lived for centuries would still be there.
One of the basic problems throughout human history with those who migrate in search of freedom is that they tend to settle in someone else's land.
What kind of BS post was that Siralys? The Jews were allowed to move into the area or buy land in the area under the terms of those who ruled the land under the Ottoman Empire and then under the British Mandate rules.
The San Remo Conference in 1920 where Japan, Great Britain, and France confirmed the Balflour pledge for a Jewish homeland in Palestine.
The Arabs under an out and out antisemitic al-Husseini called for riots.
There was a plan to divide the land in 1937 but that was rejected.
There were Jews who migrated illegally because they had no where else to go just before the Holocaust. The US was only allowing about 8500 German Jews in a year to immigrate into the US during that period. And the British decided to clamp down on immigration.
The Jews saw themselves returning to their homeland. They were not accepted as Europeans in Europe. There was no independent country of Palestine that they were moving into.
Most of the land that eventually was set to become Israel in 1947 was not privately held Palestinian land. It was British Mandate controlled land.
There was both a push and pull factors for Jews in Arab states to migrate into Israel once Israel was established. The treatment of Jews varied on each Arab country but Jews were not always treated as equals in Arab states. As a general rule, they tend to be much more right wing than ashkenazi Jews partly because they have long term grudges based upon how Arabs treated them.
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