tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12677825.post116928395565097385..comments2024-03-29T11:39:42.348+00:00Comments on Point of No Return: Jewish Refugees from Arab and Muslim Countries: Where were the Arabs in the Holocaust?Unknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12677825.post-44873473669379243312010-04-06T08:21:35.289+01:002010-04-06T08:21:35.289+01:00Regarding Sassoon Somekh's lecture, his claim ...Regarding Sassoon Somekh's lecture, his claim that 250 Arabs died while trying to defend their Jewish neighbours is a dangerous piece of revisionism. Those who died were the rioters - to our knowledge no Muslim died saving Jews.bataweenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15829104245735619972noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12677825.post-1169418667571028152007-01-21T22:31:00.000+00:002007-01-21T22:31:00.000+00:00Thanks for your comment, anon. I am reading Satlof...Thanks for your comment, anon. I am reading Satloff's book at the moment and the extent of Vichy French antisemitism was shocking. I don't think Satloff is trying to make the Arabs any more responsible than they were. He says clearly that they were no better and no worse than Europeans under the Nazis. They had their heroes and their villains, so the story is not back and white, but full of shades of grey. What Satloff is trying to do is record a slice of history that has been totally neglected so far.bataweenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15829104245735619972noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12677825.post-1169403547157002422007-01-21T18:19:00.000+00:002007-01-21T18:19:00.000+00:00(excuse me for my awfull english)I was a 8 years j...(excuse me for my awfull english)I was a 8 years jewish boy living in Tunisia when german army invaded Tunisia. Then I studied this period. In North Africa, only Tunisia and Libya were occupied by the Germans.The french colloborateurs were not nazis,just antisemites. It's very different,you know.We(I) don't know much about Jews in Lybia at that time. About Tunisia,we know everything. 13 tunisian jews died in holocauste(2 of my "tribe", they lived in France).There were labour camps(my father and all my tribe's men) but no one massacre.Most Arabs supported the Germans in the War but they couldn't persecute or protect the Jews since there were no serious or terrible persecutions.Germans in Tunisia were in full flight,routed.After a six months war all of them were killed or prisonners(200000).It was their duty to exterminate us, they had precise orders but no means,no transportation.If they had had the means it would have been a total massacre, probably with the help of some Arabs fanatically nazi.In Marocco and Algeria there was no one problem with nazis,since german army never occupied those countries. French racism was a completely different story:no killing,no holocauste at all.Most Arabs in Algeria and Marocco, although pro-german,were against the French, publicaly on the jewish side.They supported us against the French.We left our countries in north africa and all arab countries because arab hostility.Isn't it enough?Why do you want make arabs more responsible than there are?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12677825.post-1169381169548364592007-01-21T12:06:00.000+00:002007-01-21T12:06:00.000+00:00Thanks very much for this, LBNAZ.Will post it soon...Thanks very much for this, LBNAZ.<BR/>Will post it soonbataweenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15829104245735619972noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12677825.post-1169380258457158592007-01-21T11:50:00.000+00:002007-01-21T11:50:00.000+00:00Audio clip lecture from Vanderbilt Universityhttp:...Audio clip lecture from Vanderbilt University<BR/><BR/>http://www.vanderbilt.edu/News/newsSound/SassonSomik.mp3<BR/><BR/>also see:<BR/><BR/>http://www.vanderbilt.edu/news/lectures/2006/12/1/lecture-sasson-somekh-speaks-at-jews-among-arabs-conference-nov-30<BR/><BR/><I>Sasson Somekh, a renowned professor of Arabic literature at Tel Aviv University, delivers a lecture at a Vanderbilt conference, based on his memoir 'Baghdad Yesterday'. He evokes, with nostalgia, his childhood and youth in the Jewish community of Baghdad in the 1930s and '40s. Lecture delivered November 30, 2006.</I><BR/><BR/><I>He pointed out that some 250 Muslim Iraqis died in 1941 while trying to defend their Jewish neighbors being attacked by a pro-Nazi mob. About 150 Jews were killed in the incident, which launched the decline of Jewish community in Iraq, which had thrived there for 26 centuries. The conference, sponsored by the Program in Jewish Studies, continued through Dec. 1.</I>Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com