(Jerusalem Post) Herb Keinon - Deputy Foreign Minister Danny Ayalon is leading a push to include Jewish refugees in discussions with the U.S. about the refugee issue, saying, "It is vitally important to return this issue to the international agenda. It is a matter of justice, closure and righting a wrong." Ayalon, whose father came to Israel after being forced out of Algeria, said this issue has "a practical as well as a moral aspect. The demands from the two sides are asymmetrical, the Palestinians talk of rights and justice [for Palestinian refugees], yet the rights and justice of the Jewish refugees from Arab lands have been ignored and suppressed for too long." In an article Ayalon wrote in September entitled "I Am a Refugee," he said that while 750,000 Arabs fled or left Mandatory Palestine, there were 900,000 Jewish refugees from Arab lands.
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