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| Iraq |
| Baghdad Jews Have Become a Fearful Few |
| 2008-06-02 |
| “I have no future here to stay.” Written in broken English but with perfect clarity, the message is a stark and plaintive assessment from one of the last Jews of Babylon. The community of Jews in Baghdad is now all but vanished in a land where their heritage recedes back to Abraham of Ur, to Jonah’s prophesying to Nineveh, and to Nebuchadnezzar’s sending Jews into exile here more than 2,500 years ago. |
| Posted by:gorb |
| #3 The article glosses over the fact that Jews have been leaving Iraq in large numbers since 1936. Once the Baath Party took over in Iraq, a lot of Jews got out since the Baath Party is the Arab National Socialist Party and they had heard how bad it got in Europe when the National Socialists took power. At one point in the Iran-Iraq War, Saddam was NOT letting Jews out of Iraq except when he was bribed with intel on the Iranians, by the Israelis. Then he started rewarding the PLO and its brethren by allowing Paleos to live rent-free in Iraq, and let the Paleos run out more of the Jews in Baghdad. |
| Posted by: Shieldwolf 2008-06-02 20:59 |
| #2 Grom RTFA. They can leave freely. |
| Posted by: OldSpook 2008-06-02 09:17 |
| #1 Anybody prefents them leaving? |
| Posted by: g(r)omgoru 2008-06-02 08:09 |