tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12677825.post4438843740686299033..comments2024-03-14T02:22:26.957+00:00Comments on Point of No Return: Jewish Refugees from Arab and Muslim Countries: 'Palestinians drove Iraqi Jews to Israel' - authorUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12677825.post-44222955007277918832009-12-29T22:32:42.307+00:002009-12-29T22:32:42.307+00:00Jews stay put in Yemen despite of a growing Al-Qae...Jews stay put in Yemen despite of a growing Al-Qaeda threat there:<br /><br />http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/135246Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12677825.post-73796730822617798842009-12-29T19:48:30.213+00:002009-12-29T19:48:30.213+00:00Victor,
You are right, al-K puts the emphasis on t...Victor,<br />You are right, al-K puts the emphasis on the push factors, but this does not mean the Iraqi Jews were necessarily anti-Zionist. However, there were two factors that distinguished the Iraqis from the other Mizrahim: one was the number of Jewish Communists they produced, some prominent today in Israel whose Zionism has been grudging, viz S. Somekh, S Michael, R Snir; the second that the Iraqi Jews were amongst the most acculturated communities - Arabic-speaking and few holding foreign passports: hence to al-K they seem patriotic. <br /><br />As Eliyahu says, some Jews left the country in the 19th c - for a mix of economic and political reasons (Tigris flooding, swingeing Ottoman taxes,etc)bataweenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15829104245735619972noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12677825.post-34776860756983999382009-12-29T15:33:15.074+00:002009-12-29T15:33:15.074+00:00I'd like to raise a question, since I am not f...I'd like to raise a question, since I am not familiar with Iraqi Jews: Khayoun gives the impression that Iraqi Jews thought of Iraq as "our country," and that they did not want to go to Israel. Whether that is true or not, I don't know, but even if it were true, this does NOT entail that Iraqi Jews were opposed to the establishment of a Jewish state. For all I know, many Iraqi Jews might have desired to see a Jewish state while remaining in their own familiar country (obviously, circumstances were such that they had no choice but to leave). In other words, wanting to remain where you are does not mean that you're anti-Zionist. On a more personal note, I have an Israeli cousin whose mother's ancestors left Iraq for Israel 100 years ago, and the founder of the Jewish community in Singapore in the 1840s was a Baghdadi Jewish merchant who left because of harrassment.victornoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12677825.post-12618993850357164632009-12-29T12:18:05.141+00:002009-12-29T12:18:05.141+00:00A S Yahuda compared what he found in the Biblical ...A S Yahuda compared what he found in the Biblical descriptions of Egypt with ancient texts and paintings of Egypt found by archeology.Eliyahu m'Tsiyonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07973268399414290195noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12677825.post-30830023508849531092009-12-29T12:16:33.806+00:002009-12-29T12:16:33.806+00:00Part of the conclusions of an Iraqi govt commissio...Part of the conclusions of an Iraqi govt commission investigating the Farhud were published by Norman Stillman in his book [Jews of Arab Lands in Modern Times, or similar title]. Khayoun's charge against Husseini is found there. However, Khayoun still displays the Arab habit of blaming somebody else. In other words, it was a "palestinian" who is to blame, not the Iraqis.<br /><br />Anyhow, he somehow forgets --or doesn't know-- that Iraqi Jews left the country in the early 19th century and went to India [Sassoons, Kadoories]. Others went to Israel in the 19th century. For instance, David Yellin's mother was an Iraqi Jewess, I believe. Yellin was a leading educator in the Yishuv. Prof. A S Yahuda was born in Israel in the 19th century to parents from Iraq. Among other things, he wrote a study comparing descriptions of Egypt and its ways and practices with findings about the same matters in old Egyptian texts found by archeologists.Eliyahu m'Tsiyonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07973268399414290195noreply@blogger.com