Roger Froikin wrote, "Reparations for Past Wrongs?
We hear today that California and other states and a number of cities are passing laws and resolutions about reparations for African Americans because of the history of slavery and discrimination.
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We hear today that California and other states and a number of cities are passing laws and resolutions about reparations for African Americans because of the history of slavery and discrimination.
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Of course, they seem not to have been too concerned with defining who should get reparations.
What happens with all these laws and intentions, I cannot predict, but it seems to me that there is another people that deserves reparations as well.
The Jewish People.
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What happens with all these laws and intentions, I cannot predict, but it seems to me that there is another people that deserves reparations as well.
The Jewish People.
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Reparations for 2000 years of persecution, discrimination, deprivation, expulsions, engineered by the Vatican and by other Christian denominations, and by governments, and by communists and socialists, and today by the left in the USA, Europe, and Australia.
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And, reparations from Muslim nations that practiced discrimination, periodic terror against Jews, and finally theft of Jewish properties and belongings and expulsion of Jewish populations.
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I would guess that reparations of somewhere around $20 trillion dollars would be fair and just.
No, I do not have a specific list of losses for persecution in Europe. But the story is well known, and the persecutions well documented and
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No, I do not have a specific list of losses for persecution in Europe. But the story is well known, and the persecutions well documented and
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at the time were direct results of religious doctrine as taught by the churches, particularly the Catholic Church and the Lutheran Church, but not exclusive to them.
For Jews from Arab and Muslim nations, a more accurate estimate can be made, especially after World War II.
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For Jews from Arab and Muslim nations, a more accurate estimate can be made, especially after World War II.
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But as I see it, no people has more of a claim for reparations than does the Jewish people.
Take one example: in the discussion of reparations for Palestinians, I would favor reparations for Palestinian refugees and for all the Jews who lost everything in Muslim lands.
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Take one example: in the discussion of reparations for Palestinians, I would favor reparations for Palestinian refugees and for all the Jews who lost everything in Muslim lands.
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So, let’s look closely at the facts.
Arabs who left what became Israel in 1948 have been estimated to number 475,000, the vast majority tenant farmers, workers, living in homes that they rented.
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Arabs who left what became Israel in 1948 have been estimated to number 475,000, the vast majority tenant farmers, workers, living in homes that they rented.
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Yes, they all show keys, but I also have keys from three apartments I rented, but that did not make them my property.
Total value of property abandoned by Arabs in 1948 comes to about $100 million if one figures generously.
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Total value of property abandoned by Arabs in 1948 comes to about $100 million if one figures generously.
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Jews who left Arab nations numbered about 1.2 million, 800,000 who were absorbed in Israel, another 400,000 that went to France, and North and South America and other areas. Jews were mostly urban dwellers who left behind properties and businesses they actually owned.
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Many of those properties are today in the most valued parts of Alexandria, Damascus, Baghdad, and many other cities. Estimated value that should be part of a reparation program: somewhere around $2 trillion dollars.
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So, let’s get started — at least on reparations for the period since 1948 in one area of the world."
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