Why Jews left Arab countries

http://www.independent.co.uk/opinion/letters/letters-eccentric-english-844289.html Why Jews left Arab countries Sir: Alan Halibard claims that 700,000 Jews were driven out of Arab countries in 1948 (letters, 5 June). In fact there was never any mass migration of Arabic-speaking Jews in that or any other year. Their history in each country was different. The Jews of Iraq, for example, left over a period of several years, alarmed by a bombing campaign that has been attributed to Mossad. The Yemeni Jews left in bewilderment, thanks to a deal between their government and Israel's. In Morocco I met many contented Jews in 1961. Most Algerian Jews left for France at independence in 1962. Without the violent creation of Israel, the ancient Jewish communities of the Arab world would still be where they had been for centuries, safe... [read full story]