Ari Lesser - Jewish Refugees

Don't forget about the Jewish refugees forced to flee from their home countries Tunisian Yemenite Lebanese the Turkish Moroccans and Iraqis Iranian Jordanian and Syrian Egyptian Libyan Algerian God only knows what would be their fate if it hadn't been for the Jewish state 1947 the United Nations passed a resolution for the creation of both the Jewish and an Arab state by partitioning the British mandate but the Arab world rejected the plan couldn't stand the thought of a Jewish land and the armies of five Arab nations attacked was an act of war so the Jews fought back thousands on both sides wound up dead in the violence many Palestinians fled and the families of these who ran away are the refugees you hear about today but there's another story that must be told not as well known but it's just as old about the Jewish refugees forced to flee from almost every Arab country don't forget about the Jewish refugees forced to flee from their home countries Tunisian Yemenite Lebanese the Turkish Moroccans and Iraqis Iranian Jordanian and Syrian Egyptian Libyan Algerian God only knows what would be their fate if it hadn't been for the Jewish state you see a million Jews lived in relative peace scattered all over the Middle East but after the 1948 war we just weren't welcome there anymore Arabs forced us to flee in fear from homes we'd known for a thousand years faced with pogroms and bomb attacks most left with just the shirts on their backs they froze out Jewish bank accounts and stole our land in large amounts today if you tried to add up the cost there's over six billion dollars lost with no other options most came straight to the newly founded Jewish state and until this day most Israelis are descendants of these Jewish refugees so don't forget about the Jewish refugees forced to flee from their home countries Tunisian Yemenite Lebanese the Turkish Moroccans and Iraqis Iranian Jordanian and Syrian Egyptian Libyan Algerian God only knows what would be their fate if it hadn't been for the Jewish state I understand why some Palestinians yearn to be granted the right of return to the place where their ancestors lived before the events of the 1948 war yet I just can't help but contemplate what would happen if Israel opened its gates when the Arab nations all heard the news do you think that they would do the same for the Jews would they give citizenship to the families of the 850,000 refugees and return all of their stolen properties back to the Jews from whom they were seized would they issue apologies for the bombs anti-Jewish riots and pogroms which forced nearly a million Jews to run for their lives with nothing to lose don't forget about the Jewish refugees forced to flee from their home countries Tunisian Yemenite Lebanese the Turkish Moroccans and Iraqis Iranian Jordanian and Syrian Egyptian Libyan Algerian God only knows what would be their fate if it hadn't been for the Jewish state