Friday, December 1, 2006
This is just a quick link to follow -- an "aside." These are links to interesting things that, for one reason or another, I didn't place into a full posting. Click the link to visit the full article. Go to the blog index for a regular listing of posts.
The forgotten Oriental Jews - '...The dispossessed lost far more than the Palestinians. Of 870,000 Mizrahi refugees, 600,000 sought refuge in Israel, where they now form half the Jewish population. There were between 300,000 and 750,000 Arab refugees, but four million is often quoted, as, uniquely, their descendants are allowed to inherit refugee status...'
