The Jews of Iraq, Zionist Ideology, and the Property of the Palestinian Refugees of 1948: An Anomaly of National Accounting

1999/11/01 by Yehouda Shenhav · 3 citations
Social Sciences · Mathematics · Psychology · #Jewish and Middle Eastern Studies #Compensation (psychology) #Ideology #Judaism #Property (philosophy) #Palestinian refugees #Political science #Value (mathematics) #Law #Refugee #History #Archaeology #Philosophy #Politics #Mathematics #Psychology

paper · doi:10.1017/s0020743800057111

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Abstract

An account already exists between us and the Arab world: the account of the compensation that accrues to the Arabs who left the territory of Israel and abandoned their property … The act that has now been perpetrated by the Kingdom of Iraq … forces us to link the two accounts … We will take into account the value of the Jewish property that has been frozen in Iraq when calculating the compensation that we have undertaken to pay the Arabs who abandoned property in Israel.

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