Jerusalem – The Palestinian people are marking their annual “Nakba Day” on Sunday, commemorating the escape and expulsion of the Palestinians from the State of Israel upon its establishment.
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In addition to the uprooting, the Palestinians are protesting against the nationalization and robbery of the property they left behind, while they have been living in poverty in refugee camps.
But there are two sides to every coin. Between the years 1944 and 1964, some 700,000 Jews moved in the opposite direction, from Arab countries to Israel – and they too were dispossessed of nearly their entire property.
‘Better life than in Eastern Europe’
Jews have been living in the Middle East since the Babylonian captivity and in North Africa since the Roman era. During the Arab occupation, the majority of world Jews lived in this area.
Since then, the center of the Jewish world moved the Eastern Europe due to immigration, and Jews’ conversion to Islam in Arab countries and to Christianity in Europe. In 1940, there were some 16 million Jews in the world, and only 5% of them – 800,000 – lived in Arab countries, mostly in Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia, Iraq and Egypt.
It’s rediculous to imply as if there’s any justification to stealing property of palistinians because their cousins in Iraq or Egypt confiscated jewish property.
It’s either you claim that no palistinian’s property was taken away or you admit your wrongdoing and compensate those who lost their property