Re: Amb. Hume Horan on the US and Islam in the Modern World

["Sunil Ramalingam" <sunilramalingam@hotmail.com>]

One quick thought that jumped out at me when I read this paragraph:

"Once, when I appealed to Saudi Foreign Minister Prince Saud for more
help to UNRWA, he replied only "You Americans created the refugee
problem. You solve it."  In response, I asked could he imagine, if a
catastrophe had driven half a million Canadians into ND, ID, and MN,
that three generations generations later, these populations would
still be held in refugee camps?  How differently the half million
Jews driven from Arab lands in 1948 were received by Israel, compared
to how the half million Arabs, driven from Palestine in 1948, were
received by their Arab neighbors!"

I don't know how one can compare the treatment of Jewish refugees from Arab 
countries in 1948, and the Palestinians in exile.  Israel was established as 
a Jewish state, and naturally accepts Jews from other nations.  Lebanon and 
Jordan, just to use two examples, weren't created with such a mandate; why 
should one expect them to accept refugees from neighboring states?  We don't 
have that open-door policy here...

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