In preliminary reading, the Knesset approved a draft which would recognize Sephardi Jewish emigrants from Muslim countries as refugees. Theoretically, this bill might allow Israel to treat the Palestinian exodus in 1947-48 as an exchange of population.
Nonsense. The Palestinians fled Israel before the Jews left the Muslim countries, so Israel will be guilty of provoking the “exchange.” The Jews fled third countries rather than Palestine, so there is no exchange.
The Torah’s solution is straightforward: the Arabs must be expelled, no exchange is necessary.
The bill is a sweet pill to Israel’s Sephardic voters, giving them a faint hope of restitution for their abandoned property.
