Newsgroup: it.politica.internazionale
Titolo: occasione storica

Le Nazioni Unite si decidono (con un po' di ritardo) ad occuparsi dei
sefarditi cacciati dai regimi arabi.
http://www.cjnews.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=14325&Itemid=86
Rights Council hears from Jewish refugee
By PAUL LUNGEN, Staff Reporter
Thursday, 27 March 2008
A United Nations body with a history of passing anti-Israel
resolutions heard about a different side of the Arab-Israeli conflict
last week when a Jewish refugee described her family's eviction from
the home they had occupied in Libya for hundreds of years.
Regina Bublil-Waldman, right, told the UN Human Rights Council (UNHRC)
in Geneva that her family was expelled from Tripoli by the Libyan
government after the 1967 Six Day War.
During that conflict, mobs turned out in the streets shouting
"Slaughter the Jews." They burned her family's warehouse and it was
only thanks to a neighbour's intervention were they able to flee. One
month later, the Libyan government ordered all the country's Jews -
there were 36,000 in 1948 - to leave. Their homes and other property
were confiscated, she said.
Speaking under the auspices of Justice for Jews from Arab Countries
(JJAC), Bublil-Waldman, who lives in San Francisco, said her family's
fate mirrored that of many other Jews.
"I appear before you today not alone, but representing the nearly one
million Jews resident in North Africa, the Middle East and the Gulf
region at the turn of the century," she said. "Today, less than 5,000
Jews remain. Their plight and flight from 10 Arab countries has been
ignored by the international community."
Bublil-Waldman - a co-founder of the San Francisco-based group JIMENA,
Jews Indigenous to the Middle East and North Africa - appeared before
the UNHRC in her great grandmother's wedding dress "to celebrate my
heritage and mourn its loss."
She was only six years old when she first experienced hatred. During
an arithmetic class in the local school, her teacher posed an
arithmetic question: "If you have 10 Jews and you kill five of them,
how many Jews do you have left to kill?
"That was a traumatic and painful experience. I came home crying," she
said.
Bublil-Waldman told the rights council that "after having to rebuild
my life, I do not appear here with a bomb in my hand nor with hatred
in my heart, but armed with these truths:
"That Jews are an indigenous people of the Middle East;" that Jew were
victimized by the state policy of various Arab regimes; and that the
UN High Commissioner for Refugees has ruled Jews from Arab lands were
bona fide refugees and "victims of the Arab-Israeli conflict."
She added: "The exclusion and denial of these truths will prejudice
authentic negotiations and undermine the justice and legitimacy of any
Middle East peace negotiations."
Bublil-Waldman's presentation was received respectfully, said Sylvain
Abitbol, co-president of Canadian Jewish Congress and a member of
JJAC's executive.
Her presentation was important in ensuring the UN body recognized that
"Jews from Arab lands are refugees and should be considered as such,"
he said.
It also corrects the international record on behalf of the children of
Jewish refugees, who have lost "a whole culture of Jews from Arab
lands," he added.
Abitbol, himself a refugee from Morocco, said the speech was part of a
broader campaign to bring attention to the plight of Jewish refugees.
The day before Bublil-Waldman's presentation to the council, the same
speech was given to a gathering of non-governmental organizations, he
noted.
Stan Urman, executive-director of JJAC, said the organization is
dedicated to raising the issue of Jewish refugees to all members of
the so-called "quartet," which is supervising Mideast peace efforts.
The "quartet" consists of the United States, the European Union,
Russia and the United Nations.
The UNHRC has been notorious for its "assault on Israel," Urman
continued. "We thought it necessary to make a statement that, thanks
to Israel, there was a home for the one million Jewish refugees."
The United Nations and the UNHRC continue to focus on alleged Israeli
misdeeds, but "not one UN resolution has ever dealt with the issues of
Jewish refugees from Arab countries. JJAC seeks to restore the plight
and the truth of the Jews from Arab countries to the Middle East
narrative from which they have been expunged and eclipsed," Urman
said.
Late last year, JJAC researchers uncovered a 1947 Arab League document
that outlined a policy of expulsion and robbery of longtime Jewish
citizens.
The Arab League's proposed law was approved by Egypt, Saudi Arabia and
Iraq and implemented by other nations. It provided that Jews would be
considered "members of the Jewish minority of the state of Palestine"
and have their bank accounts frozen and used to finance "resistance to
Zionist ambitions in Palestine..." Jews believed to be active Zionists
would be interned as political prisoners and their assets confiscated.

sefarditi cacciati dai regimi arabi.
Uhm..cosa intendi per "occasione storica"?
Ovvero..in termini di risarcimento..non vedo strade
possibili..viceversa vedo "finalmente" un riconoscimento di status che
puo' avere un peso in futuro in eventuali "trattative" .
MMAX
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http://bloggoanchio.splinder.com

 puo' avere un peso in futuro in eventuali "trattative" .
manco per un cazzo: i profughi palestinesi vogliono tornare nella loro
patria, quelli ebrei no, ergo la loro assenza di volontà non deve
valere come argomento contro il diritto al ritorno palestinese

valere come argomento contro il diritto al ritorno palestinese
Quelli ebrei se rientrano se li magnano.
MMAX
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http://bloggoanchio.splinder.com

 Quelli ebrei se rientrano se li magnano.
perchè, pensi che quelli palestinesi se rientrano non fanno la fine
dei gazani sotto embargo perenne?

dei gazani sotto embargo perenne?
Tempo addietro lessi un interessante sondaggio che diceva che i
palestinesi non č che se ne muoiano cosi' tanto di rientrare come si
immagina da ste parti eh?
Mi sembra id averne postato..se hai tempo googla un po'.
MMAX
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http://bloggoanchio.splinder.com

 MMAX
ma gli stai pure a rispondere?

 palestinesi non è che se ne muoiano cosi' tanto di rientrare
beh, anch'io non rientrerei in un paese dove un esercito straniero
interviene quando vuole ad allenarsi al tiro al bersaglio...
primum vivere...

ma gli stai pure a rispondere?
Riflesso condizionato verso una creatura.
Verra' anche a te ora che sei padre 1.0...
MMAX
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http://bloggoanchio.splinder.com

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oh, è gelosa!