The Million Jew exodus

Everyone talks about the plight of the poor refugees in Gaza and the West Bank, no one talks about the million Jews expelled from Arab lands in 1948.  The real nakba, or catastrophe happened when a million Jews began another trek through the desert(figuratively) to the promised land.

No one tells of their plight, no one talks about their struggle to survive, no one tells their story, so the victims of this nakba suffer in silence for decades, hanging heads, averting eyes and keeping whispers among family and friends.

Not anymore.  Their story is now for all to see.  Watch it and learn.


From Jihad Watch October 3 by Robert Spencer

The silent exodus of Jewish refugees from Muslim lands

Here is the trailer for the superb filmmaker Pierre Rehov's Silent Exodus. Silent Exodus was selected at the International Human Rights Film Festival of Paris in 2004 and presented at the UN Geneva Human Rights Annual Convention that same year.

Here is a summary of the film:

In 1948 nearly one million Jews lived in Arab lands. But In barely twenty years, they have become forgotten fugitives, expelled from their native lands, forgotten by history and where the victims themselves have hidden their fate under a cloak of silence.

A people whom legend have always associated with "wandering" many of these Jews from Arab lands had lived there for thousands of years and accepted their fate, through good times and bad times.

But 1948, the beginning of their exodus, also saw the birth of the State of Israel.

And, while the Arab armies were preparing to invade the young refugee-country, the survivors of the Shoah were piling up in rickety boats. Meanwhile a few hundred thousand Arabs from Palestine were getting ready to flee their homes, convinced that they would return as winners and conquerors.

Soon - by a terrible twist of fate they, as well, began to fill up refugee camps and passed on their refugee status to new generations.

The Jews, however, did not receive refugee status.

They had just rediscovered the land of their birthright.

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