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Source: http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/382320.html
The Other Refugees
(Ha'aretz) Amnon Rubinstein - The U.S. Congress passed a historic resolution in October 2003, demanding that the United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA) set out a course of action for the settlement of the descendents of the Palestinian refugees - either in their countries of residence, in Arab countries, or third countries that agree to take them in. As a result of "ethnic cleansing," some 900,000 Jews fled from Arab countries where they had lived for 2,500 years, and were forced to leave "lands, homes, private property, businesses, community assets and thousands of years of Jewish heritage and history," the resolution states. It calls on the international community to officially recognize the distress of these Jewish refugees as part of any solution to the Middle East conflict.