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| Right of Return continues to be rejected .... in Iraq. |
| 2004-02-29 |
| EFL - I have heard it said that the mark of brilliance is to be able to reconcile two mutually-exclusive ideas in your mind at the same time. By that definition all Arabs are double-brilliant. BAGHDAD, Iraq, Feb. 27 — For several weeks, members of the Iraqi Governing Council have been trying to decide whether they should allow tens of thousands of Iraqi Jews who fled the country in the 1950’s and in later years to return. So far, the answer appears to be no. Late last year, the council approved proposed legislation that would have allowed thousands of Iraqis who fled or were expelled from the country to reclaim their Iraqi citizenship — unless they were Jewish, council members said. The proposal did not specifically mention Jews, they said, but it contained language that would have kept in place the revocation of citizenship of tens of thousands of Jews by the Iraqi government in 1950. "My feeling is, as long as the Palestinian problem exists, as long as there is a state of war, then we should not allow the Jews to return," said Muhammad Bahaddin Saladin, a member of the Governing Council. "The minister of defense in Israel is an Iraqi Jew. Should we let him return?" But the proposal did not become law because the chief American administrator here, L. Paul Bremer III, did not sign it. Although council members said they had sent it to Mr. Bremer for his approval, his spokesman, Dan Senor, said Mr. Bremer had never seen it. "Ambassador Bremer never considered it, never read it," he said. Your FUBAR’d proposal was beneath notice. |
| Posted by:Super Hose |
| #3 Hopefully Bremer never saw it because he was too busy wiping his ass on it. |
| Posted by: Robert Crawford 2004-2-29 10:36:08 PM |
| #2 Bremer has the right idea saying he never saw it. Muslims can be quite picky when it comes to their Jew-hatred rights. |
| Posted by: Charles 2004-2-29 9:21:09 PM |
| #1 Of course, the Arabs are morally blind about this issue, but thus they have forfeited the Palestinians right to return to Israel. So be it. |
| Posted by: Mike Sylwester 2004-2-29 8:11:14 PM |