Treatment of Jews Varied by Country

There has been an uninterrupted presence of large Jewish communities in the Middle East from time immemorial which includes the one thousand years before the creation of Islam. The ancient Jewish communities of the Middle East and North Africa (including in the Land of Israel) has existed for over 2,500 years before the birth of the modern Arab states.

Here is a list of countries and the dates of their Jewish Communities:

Algeria, 1st-2nd century CE
Egypt
Iraq, 6th century BCE
Lebanon, 1st century BCE
Libya, 3rd century BCE
Morocco, 1st century CE
Syria, 1st century CE
Tunisia, 200 CE
Yemen, 3rd century BCE

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It's called payback, baaaby

What a perfect occurrence to follow the Muslim purposeful desecration of our Jewish forefather's graves. Five years after he tried to blow up an Israeli apartment building, Muslim terrorist Salid Ziwad was shot and captured early Wednesday morning. Ziwad was responsible for one of the most dramatic near-attacks in recent history. An Islamic Muslim Jihad terrorist, he arranged for a car packed with some 400 kilograms of explosives to be brought into Israel, where it was to be detonated aside a residential building and thus bring it down. The attack was thwarted, however, when the car was found - unoccupied - at a Border Guard checkpoint near Givat Ada in the Hadera region.

Rest in pieces, you inferior mongrel.

Ze'evi Assassin Gets Life Plus 100 Years

Excellent news. Not even Muslim hubris can minimize the impact of this righteous punishment. The Jerusalem District Court has sentenced PFLP Muslim terrorist Hamdi Qur'an to life in prison and another 100 years jail time, for the assassination of Israeli Tourism Minister Rechavam Ze'evi in 2001 and other terrorist offenses. Qur'an, 33, will suffer and then die in a Jewish jail. Perfect justice.

Group Spotlights Jews Who Left Arab Lands

From Group Spotlights Jews Who Left Arab Lands:

With assertions of the rights of Palestinians to reclaim land in Israel expected to arise at an planned Middle East peace conference in Annapolis, a Jewish advocacy group has scheduled a meeting in New York on Monday to call attention to people it terms "forgotten refugees."

The group, Justice for Jews from Arab Countries, says more than 850,000 Jews left their homes in Arab lands after the declaration of the State of Israel in 1948. The UN says that 711,000 Palestinians left Israel-controlled territory in 1948 and 1949. "We have found evidence that there was collusion among the Arab nations to persecute and exploit their Jewish populations," said Stanley A. Urman, executive director of the group.

A draft law composed by the Arab League in 1947 called for measures to be taken against Jews living in Arab countries, ranging from imprisonment, confiscation of assets and forced induction into Arab armies to beatings, officially incited acts of violence and pogroms. "This was not just a forced exodus, it was a forgotten exodus," said Irwin Cotler, a former Canadian minister of justice.

He said the main goal of the campaign was to raise public awareness rather than to seek compensation. "It's not about the money, it's about the other components of redress, recognition, remembrance and acknowledgment of the wrongs committed."

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Resolutions Introduced in US Congress Recognizing Rights for Jews from Arab Countries

From Justice For Jews:

Rarely is any consensus reached on final status issues in the Middle East peace process. Yet, remarkably, US Congressional leaders have agreed on the rights of Jewish refugees displaced from Arab countries. In a rare display of bi-partisanship, four Senators and four Congressmen, representing both political parties, have introduced landmark Resolutions on Middle East refugees that call attention to the fact that Jews living in Arab countries suffered human rights violations, were uprooted from their homes, and were made refugees.

These Resolutions signify that "it would be inappropriate and unjust for the United States to recognize rights for Palestinian refugees without recognizing equal rights for former Jewish, Christian, and other refugees from Arab countries."

On February 16, 2007, formal bicameral resolutions were introduced in the Senate (S.Res 85) and in the House (H.Res 185). These far-reaching Resolutions seek to ensure that all victims of the Arab-Israeli conflict are treated with equality, including Jewish, Christian and other refugees from countries in the Middle East, North Africa and the Persian Gulf. Concretely, the Resolutions urge the President to ensure that in all international forums, when the issue of 'Middle East refugees are discussed, representatives of the United States should ensure:

"That any explicit reference to Palestinian refugees is matched by a similar explicit reference to Jewish and other refugees, as a matter of law and equity."

This bi-partisan effort is being spearheaded in the House of Representatives by Rep. Jerrold Nadler (D-NY) along with Rep. IleanaRos-Lehtinen (R-FL); Rep. Michael Ferguson (R-NJ); and Rep. Joseph Crowley (D-NY). In the Senate, sponsors are Sen. FrankLautenberg (D-NJ); Trent Lott (R-MS); Sen. Norm Coleman (R-MN); and Sen. Richard Durbin . The Resolutions will be the strongest declarations adopted by the U.S. Congress, on the rights of Jewish and others refugees that were forced to flee Arab countries.

"When the Middle East peace process is discussed, Palestinian refugees are often addressed. However, Jewish refugees outnumbered Palestinian refugees , and their forced exile from Arab lands must not be omitted from public discussion on the peace process. It is simply not right to recognize the rights of Palestinian refugees without recognizing the rights of Jewish refugees," said Rep. Jerrold Nadler (D-NY).

"There can be no true and lasting peace in the Middle East unless the legitimate claims of all refugees displaced by the years of conflict are recognized by the international community," said Sen. Norm Coleman (R-MN).

"Large numbers of both Arabs and Jews have been forced to flee their countries and it is only right and equitable that the President acknowledge and include Jewish and other refugees in any discussion of Palestinian refugees in pursuing this issue in the international arena."

"It would be constitute an injustice were the United States to recognize rights for one victim population - Palestinian refugees - withoutrecognizing equal rights former Jewish refugees from Arab countries " said Stanley Urman, Executive Director of Justice for Jews fromArab Countries.

"Both were victims of the very same Middle East conflict and the rights of Jewish refugees must be addressed."
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