Blog: Point of no return

Americans Stand with Israel
by Bee Sting
August 26, 2013 - Monday

Four years of blogging have piled up more "favorites" in my "bookmarks" than I'll ever be able to review and there just never seems to be enough time to remove hundreds of saved links.  However, today I began searching for an old link I had used (approximately three years ago) when the topic of Iraq's Jewish artifacts were to be returned to Iraq, instead of its rightful owners.  To my surprise, after an hour's search, it came to me that part of the name of the blog had the word "point" in its title.   The moment I typed in Google search "point - Iraqi Jews" the blog appeared and I found an old friend!.  I have added "Point of no return" to my "links" on the sidebar for easy access.  Here is an introduction to a remarkable site that you, too, may wish to save and forward to your friends.:

still photographs of Ezekiel's shrine taken in Iraq in 2010/2011 are exclusive to Point of No Return (we are grateful to the senders). They show the shrine in a parlous state of repair.

Point of no return
Information and links about the Middle East's forgotten Jewish refugees, updated daily

Introduction

In just 50 years, almost a million Jews, whose communities stretch back up to 3,000 years, have been 'ethnically cleansed' from 10 Arab countries. These refugees outnumber the Palestinian refugees two to one, but their narrative has all but been ignored. Unlike Palestinian refugees, they fled not war, but systematic persecution. Seen in this light, Israel, where some 50 percent of the Jewish population descend from these refugees and are now full citizens, is the legitimate expression of the self-determination of an oppressed indigenous, Middle Eastern people.
This website is dedicated to preserving the memory of the near-extinct Jewish communities, which can never return to what and where they once were - even if they wanted to. It will attempt to pass on the stories of the Jewish refugees and their current struggle for recognition and restitution. Awareness of the injustice done to these Jews can only advance the cause of peace and reconciliation.
(Iran: once an ally of Israel, the Islamic Republic of Iran is now an implacable enemy and numbers of Iranian Jews have fallen drastically from 80,000 to 20,000 since the 1979 Islamic revolution. Their plight - and that of all other communities threatened by Islamism - does therefore fall within the scope of this blog.)

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Synagogue in Bataween, Baghdad, Iraq

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