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The Forgotten Middle Eastern Jews
[FrontPageMagazine] Daniel Brainich - The expulsion of Middle Eastern Jews from their traditional homelands in the Arab world has long been one of history's less recognized tragedies. The Senate is currently considering a landmark bill that would call attention to the plight of nearly one million Jews who were forced to flee the Arab world in the twentieth century. The bill calls attention to the wholesale human rights violations faced by the Jewish minority of the Arab world, and affirms that the integrity of any comprehensive Mideast peace agreement is contingent upon "recognition of, and redress for, the uprooting of centuries-old Jewish communities in the Middle East, North Africa, and the Persian Gulf." To that end, the bill instructs representatives of the U.S. in all international forums to ensure that "any explicit reference to the required resolution of the Palestinian refugee issue" is matched by "a similar explicit reference to the resolution of the issue of Jewish, Christian, and other refugees."