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From: jho@ihuxn.UUCP (Yosi Hoshen)
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Subject: Re: Humanism, Christianity and Nazism
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Date: Sat, 5-May-84 14:15:15 EDT
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The beginning of my previous submission was cut off.  This is a reply to Mr.
Kurtzz article.

Stuart Kurtz writes:

>If you feel that Western responses to oppressed people in the process
>of being merely relocated is inadequate, no doubt you favor mass
>immigration of Palistinians from Israeli occupied Lebanon and the West
>Bank? 

We hear all the the time of the plight of the Palestinian refugees,
their relocation, etc.  Yet, we rarely hear of the plight of the
Jewish refugees from Arab countries.  There were more Jewish refugees
fleeing Arab countries than Arabs (Palestinians) fleeing from the areas
of Palestine controlled by Israel during and shortly after the
establishment of Israel in 1948.  These Jewish refugees and their
descendants form now the majority of Israel's population.

Let me remind you that these Jewish refugees lived for years in
tents and other dehumanizing conditions.  Unlike the Palestinian
refugees there was no United nations relief organization to
support them.  A huge propaganda machine was not set up to exploit
their misfortune.  The world was not concerned with their plight.
They were only Jews.  Uprooting of Jews is a common occurrence
in human history, and therefore does not justify a world's outcry.
-- 

Yosi Hoshen
Bell Laboratories
Naperville, Illinois
(312)-979-7321
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