Expelled Jews hold deeds on Arab lands -Etgar Lefkovits
The government needs to bring up the issue of hundreds of thousands of Jews who left their homes in Arab countries following the establishment of the State of Israel as part of any future peace agreement with the Palestinians, the president of the World Organization of Jews from Arab Countries said.
About 850,000 Jews fled Arab countries after Israel's founding in 1948, leaving behind assets valued today at more than $300 billion, said Heskel M. Haddad. He added that the New York-based organization has decades-old property deeds of Jews from Arab countries on a total area of 100,000 sq.km. - which is five times the size of the State of Israel.
Most of the properties are located in Iraq, Egypt and Morocco, Haddad said.
[Jerusalem Post]
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1 comment:
An interesting idea and situation, but I suspect the Arabs would find "legal validity" claims against such a possibility. It should certainly be pursued, as a bargaining chip if nothing else.
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