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| Hundreds of Thousands of Israelis Can Vote in the Iraq Election |
| 2005-01-16 |
| .... anyone who is or once was an Iraqi citizen, even if he was deprived of the citizenship, is eligible to vote, Sarah Tosh, spokesperson for Iraq's out-of-country-voting (OCV) central headquarters, said Wednesday. "There are no restrictions on Iraqis on the basis of religion, race or sex," said Tosh. "This definitely includes those who are Israeli citizens today." Anyone who has an original Iraqi birth certificate may take part in the vote. ..... Those whose father is Iraqi may also vote, even if they were born in another country, as long as they have a certificate proving it. However, children to mothers of Iraqi descent may not vote, because the Iraqi law from 1957 grants citizenship only to children with Iraqi fathers. .... Some 130,000 Jews emigrated from Iraq to Israel after it's establishment, decimating one of the oldest Jewish communities in the Arab world. .... |
| Posted by:Mike Sylwester |
| #3 Lots of Iraqi Jews in the U.S. and Canada, too. Charming, erudite people -- I studied under several of them at my Hebrew School. Like in the rest of the Arab world, there were anti-Jewish riots and pogroms, and those who could get out did. Entirely too many stayed behind, swinging from lampposts. This should be interesting. |
| Posted by: trailing wife 2005-01-16 6:42:56 AM |
| #2 It's all coming back to me now... yeah, um, I'm pretty sure I was an Iraqi citizen once... it was a long time ago, back before there was hair, and um, I was in Gov't... Chief Legal Advisor... to Hammurabi... So, like, where's my absentee ballot? I don't get around so well anymore. |
| Posted by: .com 2005-01-16 1:22:58 AM |
| #1 Hmmmm. 130,000 Jews vote in the Iraqi elections; a couple of million Sunnis don't. Works for me. :-D |
| Posted by: Barbara Skolaut 2005-01-16 12:43:56 AM |