Dr Harold Rhode is the man who discovered the Jewish books, Torah scrolls and documents floating in three feet of water in the secret police headquarters in Baghdad in 2003. (The collection, now known as the Iraqi-Jewish archive, is still the subject of a tug-of war between Iraq and its exiled Jewish community). This interview with Dr Rhode is also worth listening to because of his unique insights into Turkey and Iran born of 40 years' study of the Muslim world. (With thanks: Imre)
Dr Harold Rhode...insightful
Rod Bryant and Jerry Gordon interviewed Dr. Harold Rhode while he was
in Macedonia lecturing on the Iraqi Jewish archives and the importance
of Jewish identity. Rhode was able with both Iraqi opposition and
Washington connections to miraculously retrieve the Iraqi Jewish
archives found in the flooded basement of Saddam Hussein’s intelligence
headquarters in Baghdad in 2003 that were eventually and wonderfully
restored by the US National Archives and Records Agency. The archives
are awaiting a Trump White House decision to determine whether the
Archives remain in the US or go to Israel, instead of Iraq.
This
wide ranging interview with Dr. Rhode addressed Erdogan’s neo-Ottoman
dictatorship, Iran’s divisions in the facing of rising protests by its
people seeking a change from the tyranny of the Mullarcracy and
Revolutionary Guards. He noted how the Islamic Regime abused the release
of over $150 billion in funds under Obama’s nuclear agreement in
misadventures in Syria and Yemen instead of benefitting its people. The
Iranian people who he cited now denounce the ‘dictatorship’ of Supreme
Ruler, Ayatollah Khamenei, instead praising the Crown Prince of the late
Shah, Reza Pahlavi, a resident of the US.
Rhode also addressed the
matter of whether Israel’s rumored alliance with the Sunni Arab world, especially Saudi Arabia and the Emirates, is tactical or strategic,
given that Israel is recognized in recent rankings as the eighth most
powerful country globally. As we noted, Dr. Rhode has lectured in China
universities about Jewish thinking behind Israel’s rise. He noted that
the Chinese attributed Israel rise globally to ancient Jewish religious
traditions of “thinking about the unthinkable” that affirmed Ha Shem’s
covenant with his people.
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