Our Resolution on Jews from Arab Countries was APPROVED!!!
The Congressional Resolution our organization Justice for Jews from Arab Countries has worked to promote over the last few years has been passed!! H.Res.185 underscores the fact that Jews living in Arab countries suffered human rights violations, were uprooted from their homes, and were made refugees.
I was touched when our office received the following note today from a very prominent member of the Jewish community of New York, a man who runs a national Jewish organization: "Congratulations on what must be viewed as one of the most important contributions toward justice for the Jewish people's rights and heritage in recent times. In fact outside of Israel since the end of the Holocaust, the Nuremburg trials and the UN vote in favor of the new State of Israel, it is hard to think of any political body anywhere including the United Nations where the plight, losses and rights of the peace loving Jewish people has been better presented and dealt with than as it just was in the US Congress. A marvelous gift to the close to a million Jews who had to flee from Arab lands leaving everything behind, the Jewish people in general and to improved sanity and truth in support of peace for Israel."
The Resolution urges that the President and U.S. officials participating in Middle East discussions to ensure that any reference to Palestinian refugees must: “also include a similarly explicit reference to the resolution of the issue of Jewish refugees from Arab countries.”
We also got a comment from Malcolm Hoenlein, Executive Vice-President of the Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations. He commented, “the failure during all these years to recognize other refugees, compounded the indignation and the suffering and the deprivation of Jews in Arab countries. There was a systematic process of expulsion which the Arab governments engaged in.” He added that the Resolution is not an obstacle to peace. “It is a distortion to talk only of one refugee population, as that would undermine the ultimate outcome of any negotiations. The Congressional action will educate a generation that know too little about the other refugees.”
The press release from the organization is here: http://www.justiceforjews.com/mediakit2.html
/Shelomo
I was touched when our office received the following note today from a very prominent member of the Jewish community of New York, a man who runs a national Jewish organization: "Congratulations on what must be viewed as one of the most important contributions toward justice for the Jewish people's rights and heritage in recent times. In fact outside of Israel since the end of the Holocaust, the Nuremburg trials and the UN vote in favor of the new State of Israel, it is hard to think of any political body anywhere including the United Nations where the plight, losses and rights of the peace loving Jewish people has been better presented and dealt with than as it just was in the US Congress. A marvelous gift to the close to a million Jews who had to flee from Arab lands leaving everything behind, the Jewish people in general and to improved sanity and truth in support of peace for Israel."
The Resolution urges that the President and U.S. officials participating in Middle East discussions to ensure that any reference to Palestinian refugees must: “also include a similarly explicit reference to the resolution of the issue of Jewish refugees from Arab countries.”
We also got a comment from Malcolm Hoenlein, Executive Vice-President of the Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations. He commented, “the failure during all these years to recognize other refugees, compounded the indignation and the suffering and the deprivation of Jews in Arab countries. There was a systematic process of expulsion which the Arab governments engaged in.” He added that the Resolution is not an obstacle to peace. “It is a distortion to talk only of one refugee population, as that would undermine the ultimate outcome of any negotiations. The Congressional action will educate a generation that know too little about the other refugees.”
The press release from the organization is here: http://www.justiceforjews.com/mediakit2.html
/Shelomo
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