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Source: https://www.jns.org/the-luxury-of-relocation-is-a-dream-jews-never-had/
The Luxury of Relocation Is a Dream Jews Never Had
(JNS) David M. Abadie - When hundreds of thousands of Jews, including my own family, were expelled from Arab lands, no one lifted a finger to help. There were no global protests, no international aid agencies keeping us in permanent refugee limbo. We weren't given the luxury of relocation; we were forced to rebuild from nothing. Now, as Gazans are being handed a golden ticket - the opportunity to escape the war zone their own leaders created - the world suddenly finds its moral outrage. Yet a comparison between Jewish refugees expelled from Arab lands and Gazans today is inaccurate. Jewish refugees didn't wage war on their host countries. They didn't launch terror attacks, form death squads or strap explosives to their bodies. They didn't raise generations to glorify suicide bombings and mass murder as a path to paradise. The world deserves to be rid of Gaza as a terror base. If removing this hotbed of extremism means relocating its people elsewhere, then so be it. Because in the end, peace isn't built on fantasies. It's built on removing the threats that make peace impossible.