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Contents 1 Dispute regarding Jewish loss of property after 1948 2 Temp 3 Jewish loss of property after 1948 4 Rewrite status 5 NPOV, citations

[edit] Dispute regarding Jewish loss of property after 1948

The article states: "Most of these Jews [those leaving/fleeing Arab countries] lost most of their property and continue to claim compensation." Given the description at Jewish exodus from Arab lands it seems a real reach to suggest that "most" Jews lost their property, given that that article indicates that only in Egypt and Libya did property confiscations occur (and in Egypt it was described as "hundreds" of Jews, and not the 75,000 in Egypt at the time; and in Libya the confiscations began in 1969, 20 years after the initial conflict). The other large Jewish populations in Morocco, Tunisia, Iraw, and Algeria, who compose the majority of the Jewish populations in 1948 Arab lands, did not experience confiscations, per the article.

Please repair this section.

Lokiloki 03:07, 22 March 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Temp

You are making significant changes, therefore please use a Temp page, as we did in the main article. Thanks, Lokiloki 20:11, 24 March 2006 (UTC)

I am going to follow your suggestion. Thank you. ←Humus sapiens ^ну? 21:07, 24 March 2006 (UTC)

ironically i the only biased thing i found in this text was the palestinian (forgive me if i spelt it wrong) textbook issue. This only looks at one side of the argument. Please change this. Just because America is at war with the Middle East doesn't mean we should promote racism.

[edit] Jewish loss of property after 1948

Loki, my grandmother was an Iraqi Jew, she and her entire Jewish community was forced to flee Iraq as part of riots that erupted when the State of Israel was founded. Her home was burnt down and hundreds of Jews were killed in the riot. She fled to Israel.

I also work with a Jew whose father had the same situation in Syria. His father fled Damascus in similar riots - he arrived in Jaffa, was encountered by Christian Missionaries and flew to Canada. He now resides in Boston.

There is extensive literature on the subject, refuting the claim that Arabs ejected their Jewish populations is absurd...the number of Jews living in each Arab nation is in the double digits, they are often kept as the tolken Jews as proof that the mass ejection and rioting did not happen. Furthermore, the current seemingly anti-Israel testimonies of these Jews (such as the 30 or so in Iraq) are clearly forced as any other but the standard regional rhetoric is punishable by death. Labaneh 16:18, 22 July 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Rewrite status

Any ideas? —Viriditas | Talk 12:44, 21 August 2006 (UTC)

[edit] NPOV, citations

I dispute the article's neutrality. This stems from the article being a collection of WP:OR, not a presentation of referenced facts. All relevant citations are missing. For an article this length, I would expect > 100 footnotes, not one. Kosmopolis 10:01, 20 September 2006 (UTC)

Could you point to specific statements needing referencing, or which are formulated through original research? Tewfik^Talk 20:59, 21 September 2006 (UTC)

I won't have to read past the first first paragraph. "But most are moderately peaceful". All relevant citations are missing. For an article this length, I would expect > 100 footnotes, not one. Kosmopolis (talk) 12:03, 3 October 2006 (UTC)

There are 46 references by my count which is quite a bit for any article. If there is a specific passage that you feel needs to be sourced, request a tag, but keep in mind that many people from many POVs have seen the page before you as well. Tewfik^Talk 06:14, 4 October 2006 (UTC)