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Article: Challenge the notion of refugees.(OPINION)
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- The Jewish Advocate (Boston, MA)
- Article date:
- January 5, 2007
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"'Contrariwise,' continued Tweedledee, 'If it was so, it might be, and if it were so, it would be; but as it isn't, it ain't. That's logic!'" So said Lewis Carroll in his classic, "Through the Looking Glass."
Through Alice's dialogue with the walrus in that tale, Carroll shows how logic and reason can conflict with emotion and passion. It serves today as a good representation of how the facts in the Middle East refugee dispute have been twisted to favor the Palestinians.
"In its zeal and need to address the plight of Palestinians, the world allowed the plight of the Jewish refugees to fall by the wayside," said Stanley A. Urman, executive director of ...