White House Official: Jewish “Refugees” Right of Return to Muslim Countries Should Be “On The Table”…
Something tells me Jews aren’t interested in shortening their life span to less than 24 hours.
(The Cable) - The right of Jews to return to the Arab and predominantly Muslim countries they fled from or were kicked out of over several decades could be “on the table” as part of the Middle East peace negotiations, according to a senior White House official.
Ben Rhodes, the deputy national security advisor for communications and President Barack Obama’s chief speechwriter on foreign policy, talked about what’s known as the “Jewish right of return” during an off-the-record conference call with Jewish community leaders on May 20, only one day after Obama’s major speech on the Middle East. A recording of the call was provided toThe Cable.
In response to a question asking why there is a great deal of focus on the Palestinian refugee issue but almost no focus on the Jews who departed Arab lands, Rhodes declared that the Israelis and Palestinians should negotiate on the Jewish right of return to Arab and Muslim countries and that the United States could play in role in mediating that issue.
Here’s the full exchange:
“While Palestinian refugees have concerns that are understandable and need to be dealt with in the peace process, there was no reference in the president’s speech to the approximately one million Jewish refugees that emerged from the same Middle East conflict. I’m talking about Jews from Arab and Muslim countries who were forced out of their homelands where they had lived for centuries,” said B’nai B’rith International Director of Legislative Affairs Eric Fusfield.
“The international community has never acknowledged their rights and their grievances,” Fusfield continued, “[C]an the U.S., as the peace process move forward, play a role in advancing the rights and concerns of these Jewish refugee groups and help ensure that as refugee issues are dealt with… that the focus will not just be on one refugee group but on all refugee groups emerging from the same conflict?”
Rhodes responded: “Certainly the U.S., in our role, is attuned to all the concerns on both sides to include interests among Israel and others in Jewish refugees, so it is something that would come up in the context of negotiations. And certainly, we believe that ultimately the parties themselves should negotiate this. We can introduce ideas, we can introduce parameters for potential negotiation.”
Posted by ZIP on Wednesday, May 25, 2011, at 11:35 am | 
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Right… I’m sure Muslims will be waiting for them with open arms, a party and a keg of beer.
What kind of a world does Obama live in? Must be nice just dumping reality.
He must have had copious amounts of dope when he went through college.
i think Israel decimating the entire middle east w/ nuclear bombs & pork blood should be “on the table”.
see, i can be presidential too.
-President FFM
This is the “Helen Thomas Plan” to “make the Jews go back where they came from.”
It is intended to legitimize the Arab demands for a “right of return” to Israel proper, downplay the fact that Israel absorbed the Jewish refugees, and further suggest that the Jews have no right to be where they are.
That remark shows a total lack of seriousness.
Echoes of Adolf Hitler..
The anti-Semite in Chief.
It’s is Barry’s DNA, he can’t help himself (nor does he want to).
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All this double talk BULLSHIT shows just how FRIGGIN STUPID THIS BUNCH OF MORONS ARE IN THE W.H.
Maybe its a way to call the bluff on the arab world? No muslim country would ever agree to that.
Also in the news: Mice now completely welcome in Cat Town.
How’s Allah been responding to your prayer to eradicate the Jews so far? Keep it up and one of these days Mecca is going to be gone.
Lebanaon is the only ME nation that gave Palestinian offspring citizenship status and look how well that turned out? They aren’t Palestinian refugees they are people who were denied citizenship in the very Muslim nations they were born in, that doesn’t make them refugees but people who are denied equality with non-Palestinian citizens. Notice they don’t seem to be angry at the nations they were born in for denying them citizenship and their treatment as second class citizens=why is that?
Who’s the faggy looking little kid flying nun wannabee?
The stupidity of this administration is breath taking.
Maybe the Haaretz people will move to Arab lands.
This makes 100% sense. They’ll create tons of green jobs when they build the gas chambers that the Jews must pass through on the way back. Then, when the last Jew is shoveled out they’ll recycle the chambers metal to make swords that they’ll “Daniel Pearl” each of the lefties. Which, in turn, will solve global warming since after the lefties they’ll go after the MSM, all Obama-ites, gays, lesbians, drunks, Christians and other non-Muslim likely saving Jimmy Carter and/or Al Gore for last.
But it’s a valid point worth looking into. Not that I think that they should go back, but just as an excercise. Jews have been forced out of a lot of places that they used to live, and nobody seems to remember that.
I have a Jewish friend who’s family comes from Iran, there used to be a lot of Jews in Iran…used to be. There are still some, an oppressed minority.
It’s like Net&yahoo said yesterday, Israel isn’t what’s wrong with the middle east, not by a long shot.
Methinks that obama and his peeps really think “right of return to the ovens” when they talk about this………..
Frying pan …
Meet fire.
The refutation of Netanyahu continues…
He has the right to return to Kenya too.
There are no more Jewish refugees. The Jews from Arab lands have settled themselves and gotten on with their lives, unlike the “Palestinians” who are still claiming victim status. They just want to dilute the right wing vote in Israel. A while ago, a liberal in America was quoted as saying that Sephardi Jews (those from Arab lands) are a problem because they are against the “peace process”. Duh, they know what we’re dealing with.
If the Arabs have a right to attack Israel to enforce they’re right
of return. Then so do the Jews, which gives Israel the right to conquer and annex the entire muslim world especially Saudi
Arabia.
Also if muslims have a right to return, we also have a right to return muslims back to the hellholes they came from.
Crazy man in the Oval office. I used to think he was just a communist. Now I know he is crazy. He truly hates the Jews. He wants to send the joooz back to be killed. I will vote for anybody other than this crazy anti jooooo, No matter who it is, anybody.
D Austin,
It’s time the Jews took back Kaybar and then Medina.
Right of return.
I bet that kid can grow one gnarly unibrow!
Its true that the Jews expelled from Arab countries after 48 have, like the survivors of Churban Europa, become citizens of whatever nations they escaped to and concentrated on building their lives and communities, and are not interested.
However, I’m surprised that anyone in the WH even realizes that almost a million Jews were expelled from their homes with only the clothes on their backs. Just goes to show how vile Obozo’s speech really was, calling for Israel to cut her own throat.
The Jews have the right and WILL return to Arab nations armed with M16′s, Tanks, Air Cover and superior fire power. I like the ring to this “Operation Right of Return!”
If there is a Palestinian “right of return”, it is only logical that there should be a Jewish “right of return”. Maybe the White House should propose setting up a clearinghouse operation wherein the two groups could exchange citizenship claims. If Moshe’s grandparents had a house in Damascus, he could trade it to Abdul for his “right to return” to Israel. Totally impractical, impossible,etc, but watching heads explode at the proposal across the Middle East would be entertaining.
I think Helen Thomas covered this “Obligation to Return” gambit.
There is a fine line to cross between “right” and “duty”.