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Each week we provide you with one of the week's most thought provoking articles. | |  'Anne Frank from Baghdad'
By Lela Gilbert, The Jerusalem Post
"In recent years, many Jews from Iraq have started to talk about what happened to them. But I was so hurt and so locked into myself that I didn't think I could deal with it," says Linda Abu-Aziz Menuhin, who in 1970 fled anti-Jewish violence in Baghdad. "More recently I've felt that I needed to heal this very bad bruise, so I am in the process of opening up. Now I say that having to leave my home in Iraq was my nakba - my catastrophe."
"Nakba Day," inaugurated by Yasser Arafat in 1998, is meant to counter Israel's Independence Day celebrations, commemorating losses suffered by Arabs who fled their homes during the War of Independence.
In fact hardly a day passes when the subject of millions of Palestinian refugees seeking a "right of return" to their lost properties - or compensation for them - isn't discussed in relation to Middle East peace negotiations. Somewhere between 500,000 and 750,000 Arabs fled their homes during the War of Independence in 1948; 60-plus years later, these refugees and their offspring number more than four million, living both in refugee camps and in residential communities. The story of their losses and their controversial politicization is a familiar subject for journalists, activists, politicians, and Middle East observers.
Meanwhile, another refugee story - the history that Linda Menuhin represents - is far from familiar. Continue Reading>> | | One that calls for a Response
Each week we take a meaningful quote, tie it to scripture, and leave you with a take-home. | |  In his speech to the UN General Assembly, President Obama said: “I will also continue to seek a just and lasting peace between Israel, Palestine, and the Arab world. … we continue to emphasize that America does not accept the legitimacy of continued Israeli settlements. … The time has come to re-launch negotiations without preconditions that address the permanent status issues: security for Israelis and Palestinians, borders, refugees, and Jerusalem. And the goal is clear: Two states living side by side in peace and security — a Jewish state of Israel, with true security for all Israelis; and a viable, independent Palestinian state with contiguous territory that ends the occupation that began in 1967, and realizes the potential of the Palestinian people.”
God says: “Who among you fears Yahweh and obeys the word of his servant? Let him who walks in the dark, who has no light, trust in the name of the Yahweh and rely on his God. But now, all you who light fires and provide yourselves with flaming torches, go, walk in the light of your fires and of the torches you have set ablaze. This is what you shall receive from my hand: You will lie down in torment”. … “I will contend with those who contend with you, and your children I will save. I will make your oppressors eat their own flesh; they will be drunk on their own blood, as with wine. Then all mankind will know that I, Yahweh am your Savior, your Redeemer, the mighty One of Jacob.” (Isaiah 50:10-11; 49:25-26).
The Jerusalem Connection says: President Obama speaks of “Palestine” as though it were a state already which pre-conditions the outcome before negotiations have even started. The so-called “hindrances” of the settlements and “the occupation” supports the tired and failed rhetoric of “land for peace” and the “two-state solution.” Former US Ambassador to the UN, John Bolton, spoke for many Christians when he said President Obama “has put Israel on the chopping block.” If that is the case, then the holocaust to come by which all previous holocausts will pale in comparison, cannot be far off. “On that day I will make the leaders of Judah like a firepot in a wood pile, like a flaming torch among sheaves. They will consume right and left all the surrounding peoples, but Jerusalem will remain intact in her place.” (Zechariah 12:6). | |  Anti-Semitism Today, Part 2
Presently there is an upsurge of Anti-Semitism in the world, and the demonization of the Jewish people. They use the conflict with the Palestinians as an excuse but that's not the real cause of the hatred...
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