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- From: astein@nysernet.org (Alan Stein)
- Subject: Re: Name of Palestinian Deportees (part i)
- Message-ID: <1993Jan23.223456.14338@nysernet.org>
- Organization: NYSERNet, Inc.
- References: < <EGGE> <1993Jan18.151832.12805@nysernet.org> <2023@spam.ua.oz>
- Date: Sat, 23 Jan 1993 22:34:56 GMT
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- Askew makes one crucial implication, which makes his entire argument
- seem reasonable but which is false.
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- He implies that there is an equivalency between the Jews who were
- kicked out of their homes by the Jordanians and the Arabs who
- voluntarily left their homes to make their expected destruction of
- Israel easier.
-
- The Jews in the sections of Jerusalem taken over by the Arabs were
- kicked out of their homes. The Arabs who left their homes, with
- precious few exceptions, left voluntarily of their own free will.
-
- There is no equivalency there. When one voluntarily abandons
- property, there is no obligation to compensate him or her for it.
- --
- Alan H. Stein astein@israel.nysernet.org
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