Over the course of the past 100 years, there have been numerous refugee exchanges as a result of major conflicts. Greece and Turkey exchanged ethnic refugees in order to not prolong their own conflict.
The same happened between Pakistan and India.
Israel sought to do the same by fully absorbing and integrating the 850,000 Jews who were booted from the Arab nations round about and their millions of descendants.
Israel's Foreign Ministry insists that for a genuine and lasting peace to be achieved, this fact must be acknowledged, and the Arabs must adopt a similar approach. Below is the text of a Foreign Ministry resolution recently published in Jerusalem:
Jewish refugees from Arab and Muslim countries
Between 1948 and 1951, about 850,000 Jews were expelled or forced out of Arab nations, and became refugees. Between the late 1940s and 1967 the vast majority of the Jews from Arab countries were uprooted from their lands of birth.
General
Up until the present day, an injustice was done to the Jewish refugees from Arab and Muslim countries. Their property rights and their historic justice were abandoned.
During various efforts and talks in pursuit of peace between Israel and the Palestinians, negotiators have overlooked an important element pertaining to the Arab-Israeli conflict - the uprooting of around 850,000 Jews living in Arab nations, the loss of their assets and property, and the difficulties they underwent upon migrating to Israel and their absorption.
Close to half of Israel's Jewish citizen's today, including their descendents, came from Arab countries. Thus during the attempt to resolve the conflict through a political process, which will resume at some point in the future, this issue should be expanded, raised to the forefront, and addressed from every angle. Read the rest on: israel today Magazine
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