Does this mean that they have left or been killed? I hope, for those seven people, that the diagram is incorrect.
On a more pedantic note, in the post that I refer to above you say "the decimation of the Jewish communities across the Arab world...", but, as the map shows, it's much more than a decimation...
You will get similar figures for other ethnicities, especially Armenians and Greeks, who up until WWII made up most of the Middle East's mercantile class.
The UN Special Report on Palestine did a demographic study in 1947 which clearly showed there were in fact 1.2 million Arabs living there (not 150,000).
Today, Israeli demographic studies state that there are 1.4 million Arabs living in Israel (not 1.64 million).
So you lied twice right there.
Aside from that, your interpretation of ethnic cleansing is absurd. The number of Jewish people living in every country has significantly declined from 1948 due to immigration to Israel. So by your definition, every country in the world has engaged in Ethnic Cleansing against Jewish people, not just the Arab States. The countries who have ethnically cleansed Jewish population (by your definition) include Canada, US, Australia etc all of whom were extremely pro-Israeli.
I didn't put this map together, as should be obvious. It's from Jews News. Take it up with them if you've got a problem.
I don't know where they got their figures from, but it's worth pointing out that your 1.2 million refers to the whole of Palestine, including Gaza and the West Bank, which is where the vast majority of Arabs lived at the time. Nice try though.
And if you can't see the difference between Jews leaving Canada and the US for Israel, and Jews being driven out of countries like Iraq by the rising tide anti-Semitism, well, there's not much point in debate, really - is there?
A year ago you posted about Iraq's seven remaining Jews:
http://mickhartley.typepad.com/blog/2011/11/jews-in-iraq.html
Does this mean that they have left or been killed? I hope, for those seven people, that the diagram is incorrect.
On a more pedantic note, in the post that I refer to above you say "the decimation of the Jewish communities across the Arab world...", but, as the map shows, it's much more than a decimation...
Posted by: Brian | November 30, 2012 at 03:48 PM
I've no more info on those seven remaining Jews, but seven is near enough to zero anyway - certainly compared to the pre-WW11 numbers.
Posted by: Mick H | November 30, 2012 at 04:11 PM
You will get similar figures for other ethnicities, especially Armenians and Greeks, who up until WWII made up most of the Middle East's mercantile class.
Posted by: Grassmarket | November 30, 2012 at 04:17 PM
Can't find it, but Alan Yentob - a scion of Iraqi Jews - had a piece on Radio4 about the Farhud. It was enough to make even me listen to Radio4.
~alec
Posted by: Alec | December 01, 2012 at 01:09 AM
The UN Special Report on Palestine did a demographic study in 1947 which clearly showed there were in fact 1.2 million Arabs living there (not 150,000).
Today, Israeli demographic studies state that there are 1.4 million Arabs living in Israel (not 1.64 million).
So you lied twice right there.
Aside from that, your interpretation of ethnic cleansing is absurd. The number of Jewish people living in every country has significantly declined from 1948 due to immigration to Israel. So by your definition, every country in the world has engaged in Ethnic Cleansing against Jewish people, not just the Arab States. The countries who have ethnically cleansed Jewish population (by your definition) include Canada, US, Australia etc all of whom were extremely pro-Israeli.
Posted by: Poyani | December 06, 2012 at 08:34 PM
I didn't put this map together, as should be obvious. It's from Jews News. Take it up with them if you've got a problem.
I don't know where they got their figures from, but it's worth pointing out that your 1.2 million refers to the whole of Palestine, including Gaza and the West Bank, which is where the vast majority of Arabs lived at the time. Nice try though.
And if you can't see the difference between Jews leaving Canada and the US for Israel, and Jews being driven out of countries like Iraq by the rising tide anti-Semitism, well, there's not much point in debate, really - is there?
But I think we knew that already...
Posted by: Mick H | December 07, 2012 at 02:37 PM
Poyani - the map is showing how many Arabs live inside Israel, not in all of mandatory Palestine, in 1948 and today.
Posted by: Rebecca | December 12, 2012 at 05:50 AM