[WCUSP] Thank You, Jimmy Carter

[Tura Campanella Cook]

Thank you, Joan, for pointing this out.  Yvonne and Wisewomen, note 
this when sending out Lerner's piece.

Thanks,
Tura

On Dec 10, 2006, at 6:54 AM, JoanWDrake at aol.com wrote:

> In a message dated 12/7/2006 9:00:07 AM Eastern Standard Time, 
> turacc at earthlink.net writes:
>  There is a passage on Lerner's piece that needs to be challenged: 
> Lerner says, "...you’ll hear Palestinians who talk about their
>>  > own refugee status but never acknowledge that, when
>>  > Jews were refugees trying to escape the Holocaust in
>>  > Europe, the Palestinian leadership convinced the
>>  > British to not allow any Jews to come to Palestine."
>
>
>  What Lerner does not recount is that many European Jews fleeing the 
> onset of WW II and the German juggernaut fledto the Holy Land where 
> they were taken into Palestinian homes and sheltered against any 
> forces that sought them out. This was vividly detailed on an NPR 
> program yesterday (Dec. 9). Many of them or their surviving 
> descendants live today in what has become Israel.
>
>
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