Comments on Point of no return: Jewish property confiscated in Iraq 'worth $18 m'

Ezra Danin, Director of the Foreign Ministry's Mid...

2008-11-19T15:23:00.000Z

Ezra Danin, Director of the Foreign Ministry's Middle East Department under Golda Meir, once estimated at the assets of Iraqi Jews as being $60,000,000 (USD) in land and $5,000,000 (USD) in gold and jewels.

According to S.P. Sasson of the Sephardic Association of Tel Aviv, Jews owned £176,150,000 (UK) in land, homes and communal property in Iraq.

But these are only 2 of many known sources of information.

/Shelomo Alfassa
JJAC / NYC

Yes, Bataween, you're sadly right.

2008-11-19T08:20:00.000Z

Yes, Bataween, you're sadly right.

To continue with the treatment of Assyrians.In 193...

2008-11-19T08:18:00.001Z

To continue with the treatment of Assyrians.
In 1933, the Iraqi general Bakr Sidqi carried out a massacre of Assyrians. Meanwhile, the govt in Baghdad aroused and incited "the indignation of the entire nation against the Assyrians" in the words of Iraqi Arab nationalist historian, Majid Khadduri. See link:

http://ziontruth.blogspot.com/2006/05/before-iraqi-massacre-of-jews.html

Now if the Iraqi masses could be aroused to a murderous rage against Assyrians, why not against Jews?? And this was in 1933.

You're quite right - but what is frightening is th...

2008-11-19T08:18:00.000Z

You're quite right - but what is frightening is that even with the necessary laws in place (and even these are not adequate) the sitation of the minorities in the new free and democratic Iraq has never been worse.

There's a pattern here of how jihadist Muslims dri...

2008-11-19T08:01:00.000Z

There's a pattern here of how jihadist Muslims drive out non-Muslims. Iraqi Christians have been threatened, robbed, murdered. The victims included their priests, while churches were also attacked. I'm referring to the last five 1/2 years.

Yazidis have been targets of major terrorist attacks. I read of one attack on Yazidis that murdered several hundred people, although Dinayi doesn't seem to mention that attack. Yazidis like Christians have fled in masses from Iraq.

Can we extrapolate from these recent events to the time when masses of Jews were fleeing Iraq, 9 years after the Farhud?? Doesn't there seem to be a regular modus operandi at work both concerning Jews and other Iraqi non-Muslims? Look at the persecution of Jews in 1941 & 1949-1950 and of other non-Muslims in the last five years. I think that with a little research we could find examples in other countries at other times and places, examples of this same procedure or strategy concerning Jews and/or other non-Muslims.

Look at Kashmir in the last 20 years whence 400,000 Hindus have been driven out. Look at Smyrna in 1922 whence Greeks were driven out and Armenians massacred, although Jews were largely left alone at that time. Look at Algeria in the summer of 1982 when, after the French army withdrew under the Evian accords which provided that civilians could stay in Algeria, massacres were employed by the new govt to terrorize the non-Muslims [French citizens of varied ethnic origins, including Jews] into fleeing. For instance, the new Algerian army brought machine guns to a park where non-Muslim women and children were resting, and opened fire on them. That was a pretty clear threat which just about everyone understood. In the last 17 years, with a very small non-Muslim population left there, Algerian Sunni Muslim Arabs have been slaughtering Algerian Sunni Muslim Arabs. The outside world doesn't seem to care very much. The Algerian massacres have been hardly reported in the USA, which has a press specializing in suppressing or "filtering" information.

Now, extrapolating to the charge made by Communists and British writers supporting Foreign Office policy, of bombs planted by Zionists to get Jews to flee, don't those bombs seem to fit in to the Muslim and Arab nationalist modus operandi and strategy?? Doesn't it seem unlikely therefore that those bombs were placed by Zionists, considering how Muslim Iraqis have behaved in other situations, not to mention Muslims elsewhere concerning other non-Muslim peoples??