Israel absorbed more Jewish refugees from Arab states

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Israel absorbed more Jewish refugees from the Arab states before 1948, Major General Yaakov Amidror, Former National Security Advisor of Israel says.  #Israel #Gaza #US

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00:00And the countries concerned are the countries in the region,

00:03the ones to which President Trump is suggesting relocating the population of Gaza.

00:09If they don't agree, the plan doesn't work.

00:12So there has to be another plan, doesn't there?

00:13If that will not work, the Palestinians will remain in this destroyed area.

00:19And I don't see who will come to rebuild Gaza when Hamas is there.

00:24Who is ready to fight Hamas?

00:26I don't know about many countries and organizations which would be ready to fight Hamas.

00:32But if that's what the Arab world wants to happen, that's what will happen.

00:38Look, the Arab world kept the Palestinians as refugees in the last 78 years.

00:45Is it good for the Palestinians?

00:48It was very good for the Arab states.

00:50They had the problem of the refugees on the table when they complained about Israel.

00:56They said, what about the refugees?

00:58Guys, Israel absorbed more Jewish refugees from the Arab states than refugees which were in Palestine before 1948.

01:09Jews from Morocco, from Egypt, from Tunisia, from Algeria, from Yemen, from Iraq,

01:16all around the Middle East came to Israel and they are not refugees anymore.

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