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Losing the Jews of Arabia By Rachel Shabi
“The war between Israelis and the Arabs made it impossible for them to stay,” says the Israeli historian, Tom Segev of the almost one million Jews who had lived in Arab countries for several millennia prior to 1948.
Jewish populations, who once were a significant and largely harmonious minority presence in countries such as Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia, Egypt, Syria, Iraq and Iran, migrated en masse following the establishment of Israel in 1948.
In 1949-50, 49,000 Jews from Yemen were flown to Israel; in 1951, 120,000 Iraqi Jews did the same; by 1967, around 200,000 Jews had left Morocco – although not all of them to Israel.
Why did they go? Some argue that the Zionist movement, at the time predominantly European, recruited those Jews to the cause of settling Israel and setting up underground movements in Arab countries with that purpose in mind. Continue reading
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How Islamic inventors changed the world
From coffee to cheques and the three-course meal, the Muslim world has given us many innovations that we take for granted in daily life. Paul Vallely nominates 20 of the most influential- and identifies the men of genius behind them.
Did you know that Henry V’s castle architect was a Muslim?
and that
Shampoo was introduced to England by a Muslim who opened Mahomed’s Indian Vapour Baths on Brighton seafront in 1759 and was appointed Shampooing Surgeon to Kings George IV and William IV. Continue reading
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Muslim and Hindu: The Sensitive Areas (February 1958) – Atlantic Monthly
Part 3 in our series of articles about Pakistan and India. Investigating the deeply rooted antagonism between Muslim Pakistan and Hindu India, the author focused on the conflict over Kashmir and blamed India for delaying a solution. Continue reading
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Why weren’t Aboriginal people included as Australian citizens?
Here is an exchange in parliament that shows what many people thought at the time: Senator Matheson: We all admit that the black people have to live. What we say is that the black people should live in their own … Continue reading
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Pakistan – May 1953 – Atlantic Monthly
The least understood great power of Asia today is probably Pakistan. To Western eyes, Pakistan is that “other India,” the vestige that was left over when India achieved her independence. A Pakistani is always being taken for an Indian, simply because he is a citizen of the same subcontinent. He feels something like an Israeli being taken for an Arab because both are Semites.
Pakistan would be easier to understand at a distance if it were one remnant. But it is made up of two unequal lobes separated by the vast territory of India – hung like two great ears of an elephant, two Muslim ears on an Indian skull.
Another insightful article, this time from 1953. Continue reading
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India – April 1946 – Atlantic Monthly
This article was written in 1946 just before the British “Quit India” and the creation of Pakistan. Very insightful. Continue reading
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We Must Never Forget by Victoria Glenn
We have a place to call our own again, and after so long… We deserve this, you know. All those years of genocide against our peoples. Being kicked out of our land, forced to disperse, forced to live amongst those … Continue reading
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Job Needed 1/2009: This person needs a job, seeks an executive position.
If there is anybody out there thats has a job vacancy please consider this applicant. Enclosed is the resume of G.W Bush. Continue reading
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Ottoman Aid to the Irish
In 1845, the onset of the Great Irish Famine resulted in over 1,000,000 deaths. Ottoman Sultan Abdülmecid declared his intention to send 10,000 sterling to Irish farmers but Queen Victoria requested that the Sultan send only 1,000 sterling, because she had sent only 2,000 sterling. The Sultan sent the 1,000 sterling but also secretly sent 3 ships full of food. The English courts tried to block the ships, but the food arrived Drogheda harbor and was left there by Ottoman Sailors.
Due to this the Irish people, especially those in Drogheda, are friendly to the Turks. This event led to the appearance of Ottoman symbols on Drogheda United’s emblem.
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It’s Not Just The Palestinians Who Won’t Recognize A “Jewish State” (hint..USA)
Like the PLO the United States chose not to recognise a Jewish State but rather the State of Israel. Take a look at Presidents Truman’s original edited letter. Continue reading
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