Mr. Speaker. in the 25 years since the United Nations voted for the partition of Jerusalem. much attention has been focused on the problems experienced by the Palestinian refugees. Yet. the world has almost virtually ignored the plight of the almost 1 million Jews who resided in Arab countries before 1948a number which has now dwindled to 57.000. Only during the aftermath of the 6day war and at the time of the barbaric acts of the Iraqi Government in killing a number of Jewish citizens a few years later did most of the world realize that there are Jews still residing in a number of Arab nations. In some countries the Jews have faced bitter persecution and. eventually. expulsion. In other Arab lands they still remain. even though they are denied basic civil liberties and are victims of harassment and intimidation and of political. economic. social. and cultural oppression. A most interesting and wellwritten article about the status of Jewish refugees from Arab countries appeared in the November 1971 issue of the "Middle East Information Series." a publication of the American Academic Association for Peace in the Middle East. Written by Dr. Heskel M. Haddad. president of the American Committee for Rescue and Resettlement of Iraqi Jews and clinical professor of opthalmology at the New York Medical College. this very perceptive piece not only discusses the problems experienced by Jews residing in Arab countries but also describes the difficulties Jewish refugees from these Arab States have encountered in adjusting to life in Israel and in fully enjoying the rights of Israeli citizenship. I am pleased to present this article herewith. for inclusion in the RECORD. and commend it to our colleagues attention.
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