[lit-ideas] Right of Return
- From: Omar Kusturica <omarkusto@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Sat, 18 Feb 2006 10:14:10 -0800 (PST)
I have had computer problems these days, so apologies
for being late and this will have to do as a reply to
Lawrence, Eric (though I'm not sure that Eric expected
one) and Teemu. They were all surprized, if not
shocked, by my suggestion that we might consider the
right of return for the Muslims whose ancestors came
from Spain as well. Well, one thing that I found is
that (as I suspected) there are demands from Sephardic
Jews expelled in the 15. century for recognizing their
right of return to Spain. See:
http://www.adelaideinstitute.org/Racecard/sephardic.htm
Does this also constitute extremism ? Further, Spain
did at least briefly recognize the right of return of
the Sephardic Jews. See:
http://wais.stanford.edu/ztopics/week040105/spain_050401_returnofsephardicjews.htm
The concept of the right of return is based on the
Universal Declaration of Human Rights which states
that:
"Everyone has the right to leave any country,
including his own, and to return to his country."
Admittedly what counts as one's own country is not
always clear. There is a number of countries that deal
with the legal and practical problems related to the
right of return, including Israel, Spain, and Finland.
See:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Right_of_Return
Israel's famous Law of Return, which is operational to
this day, recognizes the right of all persons of
Jewish origin living anywhere in the world to
immigrate to Israel more or less automatically. Thus,
all that is asked for the Palestinians is that they be
granted a similar right. The issue of Spain is less
clear, as I said before, but it's not quite so
fantastic.
O.K.
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