You know, it’s not enough that the world pushes the Palestinian problem at Israel, while utterly ignoring the fact that an equal number of Jews were forced out of Arab and Muslim countries right after the establishment of the State of Israel. The AP displays yet another example of Israeli Double Standard Time: Now, Israel must resettle Christian refugees within Israel—that are already in Israel—and the Pope must help them do it.
Displaced during war decades ago, the Christians of Biram have never given up their dream of returning to this destroyed village in the hills of northern Israel. They still hold Easter rites, weddings and funerals in a stone church, the only building left standing.
Now, they are pinning their hopes on Pope Benedict XVI, who is visiting the Holy Land in May. Biram’s former residents and their descendants, some 3,000 Catholics altogether, are asking their spiritual leader to speak for them.
They were driven out of Biram during the 1948 war. Most Israeli leaders who dealt with Biram’s case refused their repatriation, fearing it would set a precedent for millions of Palestinian refugees seeking to return to former properties.
[…] Most fled to neighboring Arab countries, but some, like those of Biram, remained within Israel’s borders and became citizens. Some of Biram’s 1,000 residents left for nearby Lebanon, but most stayed within Israel’s newly created borders, mostly in the nearby Arab-Israeli village of Jish.
There simply isn’t a cause the AP won’t bash Israel with. Has the AP ever written about the displacement of Jews in Arab countries after the establishment of the Israel? Take a look at the population of Jews in Arab lands before and after Israel’s establishment.
What time is it? That’s right. It’s Israeli Double Standard Time, the time that occurs only on days that end with a Y.