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Source: http://www.jpost.com/Opinion/Op-EdContributors/Article.aspx?id=257035
Compensation for Jewish Refugees
(Jerusalem Post) Lyn Julius - Some years ago, Anwar Sadat's widow Jehan delivered a talk in New York. Congratulating her afterwards, a daughter of the Jewish Castro family from Egypt exchanged pleasantries with Mrs. Sadat. "But you must come back to visit [Egypt] and to show it to your children," Mrs. Sadat said, adding the traditional Egyptian courtesy - "my house is your house." In fact, Jehan Sadat's presidential villa had literally belonged to the Castro family, which was expelled by Nasser in 1956. Economist Sidney Zabludoff estimates that there were 50% more Jewish refugees than Palestinian Arab refugees, and that they almost certainly lost 50% more in assets and property.