A leading Protestant church official has issued a warning against ignoring the fact that the Middle East refugee problem includes Jews as well as Arabs.
Dr. Elfan Rees, representative of the Commission of Churches on International Affairs and advisor on Refugee Affairs to the World Council of Churches, asserted in a 254-page booklet, “Century of the Homeless Man.” that it was “necessary to remember that concurrently with the perpetuation of the Arab refugee problem, more than 400,000 Jews were forced to leave their homes in Iraq, Yemen and North Africa.
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