Reply #6: I'm with you on that. There isn't an equivalency.

[Ken Burch]

It goes without saying that the Palestinians weren't to blame for the Mizrahi ending up in Israel(that was the LAST thing the Palestinians would have wanted, for obvious reasons).

It also goes without saying that the Mizrahi Exodus does NOT justify the Nakba. The two are absolutely unrelated. The notion that those events somehow "balance out"(the cynical notion that it was just a case of reciprocal population transfer)is nothing but a hardline Zionist meme.

And it finally goes without saying that the Mizrahi and their transfer from their home countries to Israel should NOT be a part of the Israeli/Palestinian dispute, since it has nothing to do with that dispute.

The reasons for the type of inquiry I suggested are:

1)To establish the true historical facts about the Mizrahi exodus and to take the matter out of the realm of Israeli or Arab propaganda.

2)To work out who, exactly, SHOULD provide compensation and apologies to the Mizrahi(my own theory would be that these would need to be provided to the Mizrahi by some part of the Arab world, by the Israeli government itself if it is proved that that government intentionally launched operations to terrify the Mizrahi into fleeing Arab and Muslim countries when those countries weren't actually going to become dangerous places for Mizrahi to live, and to the U.S. for abetting the whole thing in the name of a regional "divide and conquer" strategy, and for continually aiding and abetting the worst choices of the Israeli government).