The nations of the Middle East have been steadily forcing out
Christian Arabs that have lived there for centuries, often in the most
brutal fashion. This is the hallmark of Islam that has no tolerance for
any other religion. Islam is a cult that has been at war with all
religions, using terror, intimidation, and deception to achieve its
goal.
The process has a long history. A recent Wall Street Journal commentary, "When the Arab Jews Fled",
tells a story rarely told; the story of how an estimated 850,000 Jews
living in Arab nations, many of whose families had lived in Middle
Eastern nations for centuries, were forced to leave. What happened to
them after Israel declared its sovereignty in 1948 is now occurring
again, but for Christians in the wake of the so-called Arab Spring, the
ascendency of the Muslim Brotherhood, and the militancy of al Qaeda and
the Taliban.
Cynically, Arab nations have pointed to the Palestinians as an
example of people made refugees by the creation of Israel but, generally
unknown to most Americans and others has been the role of the United
Nations in maintaining the myth of refugees via its Relief and Works
Agency (UNRWA), established to aid Palestinians in the wake of the 1948
war on Israel.
As Middle East experts, Steven J. Rosen and Daniel Pipes, pointed out
in a Jerusalem Post article on July 10, 2012, "UNRWA's most
consequential problem is its mission. Over 63 years, it has become an
agency that perpetuates the refugee problem rather than contributing to its resolution.
URNWA does not work to settle refugees; instead by registering each
day ever more grandchildren and great-grandchildren who have never been
displaced from their homes or employment, artificially adding them to
the tally of ‘refugees'. It adds to the number of refugees said to
be aggrieved by Israel. By now, those descendants comprise over 90 percent of UNRWA refugees."
This presupposes that there is or ever was a state of "Palestine",
but that is a name given the region by the Roman Emperor Hadrian to
replace the name of Israel. It was unsuccessful but centuries later was
incorporated into the Palestinian Mandate given England to administer
following WWI. In point of fact, Palestine was never a state, has no
borders, has no capitol city, has no currency, and was declared by
Yassir Arafat as a means to wage war on Israel. Today, this so-called
state is divided into two separate entities; the Palestinian Authority
in the West Bank and Hamas in Gaza. They cordially hate one another.
After 1948, the Wall Street Journal article noted, "Jews began
fleeing-to Israel, of course, but also to France, England, Canada,
Brazil, Australia, New Zealand, and the U.S." Yemen had been home to
more than 55,000 Jews' in Aden, (where) scores were killed in a vicious
program in 1947. An airlift dubbed ‘Operation Magic Carpet' relocated
most Yemenite Jews to Israel. In Libya, once home to 38,000 Jews, the
community was subjected to many brutal attacks over the years."
"In the late 1950s and early 1960s, Jews continued to pour out of the
Muslim countries. The Six-Day War of June 1967 brought some of the most
violent anti-Jewish eruptions.
UNRWA, however, was only concerned with the so-called Palestinian
Arabs. "The number of UNRWA refugees has steadily grown since 1949, from
750,000 to almost five million. At this rate," wrote Rosen and Pipes,
"UNRWA refugees will exceed 8 million by 2030 and 20 million by 2060."
This is, of course, absurd. The "Palestinians" are now the world's
oldest "refugee" population.
In addition to the obstinence of UNRWA, its existence has been an
obstruction to a resolution of the conflict between the "Palestinians"
and Israel. This is a violation of the UN Refugee Convention. In a
January 16, 2012 article by Anne Bayefsky in The Jerusalem Post, noted
that "Years of UN-driven anti-Semitism have clearly deadened the
nerve-endings of democracies..."
The UN General Assembly has annually sponsored a Day of Solidarity
with the Palestinian People, followed by the usual anti-Israel agenda
items.
"By the end of a year of double-standards, discrimination and
hate-mongering eighty percent of all 2010 General Assembly resolutions
criticizing specific countries for human rights violations were directed
at the Jewish state alone. Only six of the remaining 191 UN member
states face human rights criticism at all, one of which was the United
States." The United States!
Will the UN declare its solidarity with the Arab Christians now under
siege throughout the Middle East and across northern Africa? Don't
count on it.
The world, worried about the spread of war in the Middle East as the
result of the Syrian conflict, is not paying much attention to the
plight of the millions of Arab Christians being driven from their homes.
It is a tragedy of immense proportions and it is one that is entirely
the result of the inherent hatred by Islam for all other faiths.
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