The Middle East's Forgotten Refugees

In a fascinating profile of Linda Abu-Aziz Menuhin, an Iraqi-born Israeli forced to flee her native Baghdad in the paroxysm of anti-Semitic violence that erupted there after the Six Day War, the Jerusalem Post‘s Lela Gilbert reminds us that Palestinians weren’t the only refugees created by the 1948 Arab war against the new-born Jewish State: the onslaught by Arabs against Jews in their own lands continued for more than two decades after that, ending only when either by murder or attrition those countries had become virtually Judenrein. “From 1948 to 1970,” she writes, “850,000 to a million Jews fled or were expelled from Arab lands.”