This May 4, In Jewish History, by Mitchell A. Levin
Alexander allowed so many Marranos fleeing Spains Inquisition in to Romethat the citys refugee population doubled his ten year reign. While he decreased the size of the badge worn by professing Jews, he added an additional five per cent tax to their .
Arab wars create 10000 refugees a day
More than 10,000 people were driven from their homes every day last year by war and violence in the Middle East and North Africa in the biggest refugee exodus in a generation. According to a report released yesterday by the Geneva-based Internal .
UN confirms 800 dead in shipwreck disaster: as it happened on April 20
We may never know exactly how many people died in Sunday mornings shipwreck off Libya, but the United Nations refugee agency has confirmed the deaths of 800 migrants after speaking to survivors. Carlotta. Tuesdays Times front page: Major warns of.
Hard National Security Choices
The hundreds of women and girls rescued from Boko Haram militants by the Nigerian military have begun arriving at refugee camps after days of traveling, the AP reports. However, stories of their rescue continue to develop, and the AP writes that ���even.
The United States and Palestine
Their failure was partly a function of the continuing ignorance of the Palestinians political leadership, from the 1940s until the present day, of how American politics worked, and their inability to make a persuasive case to American public opinion.
Memories of Aleppo
Sometimes we practised a little of the Arabic language I had grown up with but since this had been mostly based around endearments, expletives and food, I had to supplement it with a little rudimentary travel guide Arabic I had learned from my dear.
Frances solution to EU migrant crisis: more bombings?
We must be forgiven if we assume the worst, but Hollande is clearly no fan of peaceful dinners at a cafe: Hes gone to war in Mali and the Central African Republic, came within hours of bombing Damascus, deployed 10,000 soldiers on French streets for.
Fortieth Anniversary of the Fall of Saigon
Im Stapleton Roy and Im going to be presiding over our session which is going to look at the fall of Saigon, which occurred three days from now 40 years ago. I was with the National War College on a trip to the Middle East and we had just���we were.
Isis, carnage and 3.5m refugees: a day devoted to Syrias.
Since 2013 Brazil has resettled more Syrian refugees than any other country in the region, but Latin America can come as a culture shock after life in a war zone. Young Syrian refugees give up hopes of education in Jordan.
Bill Milhomme: Familial Love Transcends War, Servitude.
During the ensuing three decades, Sakaian would travel back to Armenia several times in search of his family members who remained in his native land.. At Antioch, he will buy a horse at an expense of about $25, on which he will be obliged to ride for 15 long days before he reaches his home in Central Armenia, near Mount Ararat. At Antioch.. I left her passage money and expect her to reach Foxboro some time next month where she will make her home with me..
Air Strikes Wont Make Middle East Safe
All countries including Canada must be worriedly trying to identify their true interests in the war now extending from Nigeria to Libya to Iraq to Yemen and Kenya. The 2010 public suicide of Mohamed Bouazizi, a Tunisian vegetable seller, triggered the.
Jews From Muslim Lands: The Forgotten Refugees
But it is estimated that from the beginning of the 1948 Arab���Israeli War through the early 1970s, up to 1,000,000 Jews fled or were expelled from their ancestral homes in Muslim countries. 260,000 of. A search for ���1948 refugees Jews from Arab lands��� on the New York Times site produces 497 results (replacing ���Arab��� with ���Muslim��� halves the results), while ���1948 Palestinian refugees��� yields 1,050 results. Consider a. 3 Questions to Help Make Any Girl Chase You.
A Tale of Lies, Deceit, and Terrorism: the Birth of Israel
You do not even know the names of these Arab villages, and I do not blame you because Geography books no longer exist, not only do the books not exist, the Arab villages are not there either ���... The Agencys deception made no reference either to.
Nakba denial: NYT removes the word expulsion from article
On November 29, the New York Times ran an article by the Learning Network on the anniversary of the 1947 U.N. Partition Plan of Palestine.. Times.��� The network posts regular columns titled ���Word of the Day��� and ���Math���... The Arabs, in effect, were demanding that the Israelis take into their state over three quarter of a million refugees, created by the war of aggression waged by them, which would make the Jews a 41% minority in their own state, and without any��.
What impact has the United States had on the development.
Scholars such as Fouad Ajami a Lebanese Shiite, argues in his recent work that not only was U.S. involvement in the 2003 war noble and valiant, but it also gave Iraqis a chance to be economically responsible and create wealth for. Due to what seemed like irrational dictatorial actions, the international backlash stood harsh against Saddam, which lead to the imposition of United Nations lead sanctions[2] just four days after the war... New York Times, 27 July 2003.
This Day, April 29, In Jewish History by Mitchell A. Levin
1833: Birthdate of Michael Friedl��nder, a native of Posen who became principle of Jews College In London created one of the most popular English translate of Guide to the Perplexed by Maimonides.. 1943:Rabbi Israel Goldstein, a leader of the.
The Nakba, 65 Years of Dispossession and Apartheid | IMEU
From the earliest days of the movement, Zionist leaders struggled with the dilemma of how to deal with the non-Jewish Palestinians who inhabited the land on which they wanted to create their state... For many in the west, the guilt of not doing enough to prevent the murder of millions of Jews in the Holocaust, and of shutting their borders to Jewish refugees fleeing the Nazis before and during the war outweighed any considerations they may have had for the rights or��.
Access denied: The Globe barred from investigating friendly fire death
To get to Bashiq Mountain ��� and the front line between the Kurdish peshmerga army and forces of the so-called Islamic State ��� you drive a long bumpy highway through just-planted fields of rice and corn, passing a white-tent settlement for refugees from .
UNHCR - More than 10,000 people flee fresh attacks in.
YAOUND��, Cameroon, September 2 (UNHCR) ��� The UN refugee agency on Tuesday reported that more than 10,000 people have fled fresh attacks by insurgent groups in north-east Nigeria and sought refuge in Niger and Cameroon,. Local authorities say that in the last 10 days at least 9,000 people have arrived in Cameroons Far North Region and more than 2,000 have sought refuge in Lake Chad islands belonging to Niger, while more people continue to arrive.
Mali: Lawlessness, Abuses Imperil Population
Witnesses described how fighters with this group dragged a chief of a village near Dioura from his home and executed him, and gunned down another man on a village market day near Nampala. The group also burned. Attacks against the UN Stabilization.
China/Burma: Kachin Refugees Lack Aid, Face Abuses.
An open-air industrial space in Yunnan occupied by several hundred Kachin refugees, emptied during daylight hours as refugees seek day labor, food, and medicine.. The 71-page report, ���Isolated in Yunnan: Kachin Refugees from Burma in Chinas Yunnan Province,��� describes how at least 7,000 to 10,000 ethnic Kachin refugees have fled war and abuses in Burma since June 2011, seeking refuge. ���The war will last a long time and make things very difficult for us.
NY Times Jerusalem property makes it protagonist in.
Karmi was forced to flee with his family in 1948 as Zionist militias occupied western Jerusalems Arab neighborhoods. His was one of an estimated 10,000 Palestinian homes in West Jerusalem that Jews took over that year.
Why Is Pakistan More Legitimate than Israel?
A roughly equal number of Jewish refugees ��� approximately 700,000 ��� were created when they were forcibly expelled from the Arab countries where they had lived for countless generations. In addition, approximately 10,000 Arabs. Assuming a 50-50 split, the creation of Pakistan produced about seven million Hindu refugees ��� at least 10 times the number of Arab refugees that resulted from the war surrounding Israels creation. And the Mideast war, it should be��.
UNHCR - Sharp increase in Iraqi refugees fleeing ISIS into.
In August and September, on average, 120 Iraqis per day have registered with UNHCR in Jordan, up from 65 per day in June and July and just 30 per day in the first five months of 2014. Almost two thirds of new arrivals (60 per. Also in Jordan, for the first time since the Syrian war began more than three years ago, refugees from the northern governorates of the country ��� including from Raqqa ��� make up the majority of new arrivals. In the past, refugees from southern��.
Israel lobbys favorite senator tries to erase Palestinian.
Israel strongly opposes Palestinians right to return to their homes or their descendants homes, which they fled during the 1947-49 Arab-Israeli war and were never allowed to return to. Israel opposes. The amendment also does not address the fact that the 1967 war created 500,000 Palestinian refugees, with an additional 175,000 Palestinians registering with UNRWA as a result.. The best estimates are that 10,000 men spent 30 years building the Great Pyramid.
What Happened to Arab Refugees from Israel
What was the extent of Palestine in Biblical times?. In the wake of the War of Independence in 1948, when Israel was invaded by the armies of five of its Arab neighboring countries, 860,000 Jewish refugees fled from Arab countries to Israel, and, at about the same time, about 70% of the Arab. By 1959, UNRWA was obliged to report that its rehabilitation fund, created in 1950 to provide homes and jobs for Palestinian refugees outside the camps, had been boycotted by the Arabs.
New iNakba app created to help refugees maintain connection
Its I-Nakba phone app will allow users to locate any Arab village that was abandoned during the 1948 war on an interactive map, learn about its history (including, in many cases, the Jewish presence that replaced it), and add photos, comments and data ��� Zochrots focus. She said the idea for the app grew out of Zochrots activities to advocate for the right of return, meaning the right of Palestinian refugees to return to their homes in present-day Israel. [Another good��.
Escape From Syria: On the Road With the Refugees Walking to Europe
This day is like any other: the young men pore over family photographs and talk incessantly of home as they wait for the residence permits that will allow them to start their lives here in Austria.. And yet, this is what they have done to make it.
May promises response on Syrian refugees in next couple.
A Syrian child in a refugee camp in Lebanon. Today Theresa May said the government would set out its position on any further help in the next few days. Picture: Getty. Yvette Cooper chose to focus her attack at Home Office��.
Point of No Return: Jewish Refugees from Arab Countries.
In addition, about half of those fleeing were already refugees from the 1948 war. The result is that new refugees probably amounted to about 100,000. Thus, the net total of refugees created by both wars was some 650,000.
This Day, April 25, In Jewish History by Mitchell A. Levin
1607: During the Eighty Years War, the Dutch fleet destroys the anchored Spanish fleet at Gibraltar.The Eighty Years War, or Dutch Revolt, was the war of secession between the Netherlands and the Spanish king that lasted from 1568 to 1648. The war .
Shoring up the Kingdom
By any name the present situation has caused immense human misery, mass killings, destruction of cities and a tragic Syrian refugee problem: four million Syrian refugees, left mostly to etch out an existence on meagre resources. Added to this long list.