Justice for Palestinian Jewish Refugees!
Who better to put lipstick on the proverbial pig than the cosmetic empire mogul and President of the World Jewish Congress, Ronald S. Lauder?
In a recent opinion piece published in the Jewish Week (thanks to Rehmat for this find), Lauder claims that the world “has long recognized the Palestinian refugee problem without recognizing the other side of the story — the 850,000 Jewish refugees of Arab countries.”
He omits the role of the Zionist terrorist false flag operations in “convincing” the Arab Jews to emigrate to Israel. In essence he omits the most glaring aspect of the real commonality of the two refugee groups: the plight of both was caused directly by the zionist state.
As Rehmat noted, “Israeli historian professor Yigal Bin-Nun (Bar-Ilan University), in a study exposed Zionist lies about Jewish exodus from Morocco. Based on his study of Moroccan Jewish community, Bin-Nun has claimed that Mossad, the national intelligence agency of Israel, was behind the whole operation wherein about 160,000 Moroccan Jews left Morocco for the Zionist occupied Palestine.”
Needless to say Lauder also omits to mention that to this day the very Arab Jews for whom he demands “redress” are treated as second-class citizens in Israel. Rehmat reminds us that “similar terrorist activities were carried out in Iraq, Iran, Libya, Syria, Tunisia and other places to force the local Jews to leave their ancestral homelands and settle on lands and properties stolen from Native Muslim and Christian Palestinians.”
Lauder further states that “for any Middle East peace process to be credible and enduring, it must ensure that all bona fide refugees receive equal rights and treatment ..”
Should we gather from this that he proposes, in the interest of equal treatment, that all those Jewish refugees be placed in refugee camps?
“World Jewry,” he informs us as the President of its Congress, “hopes and expects this principle will inform American diplomacy as it facilitates the current Israeli-Palestinian negotiations and works for peace and justice at the United Nations. To highlight the issue, the World Jewish Congress recently hosted an event at the United Nations with the Israeli Mission, the Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations and Justice for Jews from Arab Countries.”
He goes on to explain why the plight of the Jewish refugees is considerably greater than that of the Palestinian refugees:
“They were even more numerous than the Arab refugees from Palestine; their losses of property and institutions were in fact far greater.”
When it comes to finding a legal loophole, Lauder knows who is the go-to-man:
“As Harvard Law School professor Alan Dershowitz explained to our conference at the United Nations last year, the rights of Jewish refugees of Arab countries are in fact enshrined in Security Council Resolution 242, which refers to the rights of “refugees” in the Arab-Israel conflict without specifying their nationality.”
Lauder is pleased to note that the US is on board with this and has been since 2008:
“In April 2008, the U.S. Congress unanimously adopted a historic resolution that granted first-time recognition to Jewish refugees from Arab countries. It declared that no comprehensive Middle East peace can be reached without recognition of, and redress for, the legitimate rights of Jewish refugees from Arab countries. Further, Congress said that all bilateral and multilateral discussions and documents should refer to the multiple Middle East refugee populations that arose from the Arab-Israeli conflict.”
As for the “redress” expected, Lauder insists it is not about money (it never is, ask Germany and Switzerland):
“At its core, the issue is not about money. It is about recognition — that Jews were victimized and displaced from their countries of birth; legality — that under international law, Jews were legally determined to be refugees; and equality — that all refugees must receive equal rights and redress.”
Actually this is the only part that contains a kernel of truth: money is not the main objective. The real purpose is to DENY the Palestinian refugee tragedy by making it secondary to the “far greater” Jewish losses and to tie the ‘peace process’–nonviable in itself–to yet another condition.
Jewish shamelessness and gall never fails to top itself to ever more nauseating depths of amorality.