Tuesday, November 3, 2009
My apologies for being late in publicly thanking bataween of the Point of No Return blog for naming Solomonia as one of her favorite (or "favourite," as it were) blogs in her Normblog profile. Very gratifying.
Point of No Return is a blog that focuses on the plight of the forgotten refugees of the Middle East, the Jewish refugees:
In just 50 years, almost a million Jews, whose communities stretch back up to 3,000 years, have been 'ethnically cleansed' from Arab countries. These refugees outnumber the Palestinian refugees two to one, but their narrative has all but been ignored. Unlike Palestinian refugees, they fled not war, but systematic persecution. Seen in this light, Israel, which absorbed most of these Jewish refugees, is the legitimate expression of the self-determination of an oppressed indigenous, Middle Eastern people. This website is dedicated to preserving the memory of the near-extinct Jewish communities, which can never return to what they once were. It will attempt to pass on the stories of the Jewish refugees and their current struggle for recognition and restitution. Awareness of the injustice done to these Jews can only advance the cause of peace and reconciliation.
(Iran: once an ally of Israel, Iran is now an implacable enemy and numbers of Iranian Jews have fallen drastically from 80,000 to 20,000 since the 1979 Islamic revolution. Their plight - and that of all other communities threatened by Islamism - does therefore fall within the scope of this blog.)
Check her out.
You've just given me another reason why ( not that I needed one ) Solomonia is my favoUrite blog. Thanks for the great plug!