tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12677825.post1441787874104708834..comments2024-03-29T11:39:42.348+00:00Comments on Point of No Return: Jewish Refugees from Arab and Muslim Countries: Fighting revisionism - and this blog's part in it*Unknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger10125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12677825.post-2055331530561677902010-05-22T21:15:13.740+01:002010-05-22T21:15:13.740+01:00Elie Kedourie is always good to read, even when yo...Elie Kedourie is always good to read, even when you might not agree which, for me, is seldom.<br /><br />I suggest <i>In the Anglo-Arab Labyrinth</i> for a general understanding of the British role in the 20th and 21st century Middle East.Eliyahu m'Tsiyonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07973268399414290195noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12677825.post-48169423164922544642010-05-21T14:14:06.469+01:002010-05-21T14:14:06.469+01:00Robert,
If you prefer to read academic articles b...Robert,<br /><br />If you prefer to read academic articles because they are more conscice and dense. I sometimes like articles because they are quick to read and have much deeper analysis of the subject matter. I came across of these two. I am thinking you can have access to them, if you live close to a big university. I am sure they are many that we written after these. <br /><br />Cohen, Hayyim, “The Anti-Jewish Farhud in Baghdad, 1941.” Middle Eastern Studies, October 1966, pp. 2-17; <br /><br />Kedouri Elie, “The Sack of Basra and the Farhud in Baghdad,” Arabic Political Memoirs. London, 1974, pp. 283-314.Sammishnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12677825.post-67931263615422843912010-05-20T21:55:17.578+01:002010-05-20T21:55:17.578+01:00Glad to hear it. I will keep my eyes open for it....Glad to hear it. I will keep my eyes open for it.Roberthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11903525298588963429noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12677825.post-25427444469980005262010-05-20T18:47:47.086+01:002010-05-20T18:47:47.086+01:00I am sorry to say that there were severalk books w...I am sorry to say that there were severalk books written by the Farhoud messacre as an shameful event at least in France during the 1980 and few in 1990's. The problem is that these books were only read by those few academicians and historians and perhpas few of the general public. The times were not fertile for people to probe into the viscious arab nationalism of the past, also generally speaking anything advanced of this sort was viewed as propaganda to discredit the glorious demands of the palestinian cause and capitulation to the so-called zionist entity. Therefore everything was brushed off and shelved in the dusty bookstores and hidden under the rugs (so to speak). One has to be reminded that at the time the cold war was still there if not to say at its end. People were still enamoured with leftist thinking and ideas. The one book that come to mind is Laurent et Annie Chabry, 1984 "Politique et minorités au Proche-Orient" (Maisonneuve et Larose publications). It is a very conscise and deeply researched book about not only the jewish iraqi slaughter by Arab Nationalist of Rashid Ali Al-Ghaylani facsist regime, but also the plights of the Kurdes and Chaldeans in the new geo-political map drawings of the middle east of the 1940's...<br /><br />I am glad at this event has resurfaced since the irak war of 1990 and the global change in attitude about the Middle east. The times are now more fertile to allow people to come to terms with real history of the middle east instead of the history that has been fed by the small bands of leftist and their pseudo-intellectual ancestors.Sammishnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12677825.post-86781572749202053902010-05-20T06:20:54.303+01:002010-05-20T06:20:54.303+01:00Robert,
a book on The Farhud and the Arab-Nazi axi...Robert,<br />a book on The Farhud and the Arab-Nazi axis by Edwin Black is about to come out. This should help.<br />Violette Shamash's 'Memories of Eden' which came out last year has an appendix by Tony Rocca examining the sinister role of Cornwallis, the British ambassador in Baghdad, who callously drank port and played bridge while the pogrom was going on.bataweenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15829104245735619972noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12677825.post-8928466204064544032010-05-20T00:59:00.597+01:002010-05-20T00:59:00.597+01:00It is amazing how little coverage this issue has r...It is amazing how little coverage this issue has received by mainstream scholars. <br /><br />One good book, readable book on the subject for the English-speaking audience is greatly needed.Roberthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11903525298588963429noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12677825.post-25675178302246667042010-05-19T21:17:43.733+01:002010-05-19T21:17:43.733+01:00Excellent article. One cannot help but be reminded...Excellent article. One cannot help but be reminded of the 1929 murderous Arab attacks in Hebron, where the British soldiers also idly stood by as the Jewish community was systematically destroyed over a period of days. It would seem that these examples were actually the rule and not the exception.Love of the Landhttp://calevbenyefuneh.blogspot.com/noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12677825.post-42592567597506673172010-05-19T21:12:23.748+01:002010-05-19T21:12:23.748+01:00Sympathy for the pro-Nazi mufti Husseini [Husayni]...Sympathy for the pro-Nazi mufti Husseini [Husayni] and for the Nazis was considerable among Arab nationalist circles in Iraq in those days.<br /><br />http://ziontruth.blogspot.com/2006/06/pro-nazi-mufti-of-jerusalem-enjoys.html<br /><br />Arab historian Majid Khadduri minimizes the Farhud, while British political agent, Freya Stark, describes a horrendous picture, while also oozing her own Judeophobia.<br />http://ziontruth.blogspot.com/2006/05/british-troops-told-to-stand-aside-as.html<br /><br />Some writers like to forget that the Farhud was preceded by the Assyrian massacre of 1933 and the Armenian genocide during WW I by the Ottoman Empire.<br /><br />The overrated historian of Arab nationalism, George Antonius, blamed the Assyrian massacre of 1933 mainly on "Assyrian intransigence." Of course, he does this in a very slick way.<br />http://ziontruth.blogspot.com/2006/05/before-iraqi-massacre-of-jews.htmlEliyahu m'Tsiyonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07973268399414290195noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12677825.post-44131568642297827152010-05-19T20:54:22.320+01:002010-05-19T20:54:22.320+01:00When we apportion blame for the Farhud, let's ...When we apportion blame for the Farhud, let's not forget the British refusal to intervene to stop the massacre/pogrom, although British troops sat outside the city at the time of the Farhud. This article quotes a British officer [from a book by Bernard Lewis] who says that the refusal to intervene to stop the Farhud was Foreign Office policy, not army policy. Given the proximity in time to a major pro-Arab nationalist speech by Foreign Secretary Anthony Eden [May 29, 1941], the failure/refusal to stop the massacre seems like an intentional encouragement to the pan-Arab nationalists. See link:<br /><br />http://ziontruth.blogspot.com/2006/05/britain-silent-partner-in-holocaust.html<br /><br />As far as I'm concerned, the parallels between Obama's sycophantic Cairo speech to the Muslim word [plus his toadying bow to the king of Saudi Arabia] and Anthony Eden's speech encouraging formation of the Arab League are striking. And morally equivalent, unless maybe Obama should be judged more harshly.<br /><br />It seems that there is a whole school of historical falsification that wants to soften the world's view of the Farhud as an Arab nationalist crime. Here is a French effort in that direction:<br />http://ziontruth.blogspot.com/2006/05/shavuot-massacre-of-jews-in-baghdad.htmlEliyahu m'Tsiyonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07973268399414290195noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12677825.post-46346553831769343352010-05-19T19:19:34.053+01:002010-05-19T19:19:34.053+01:00Throughout history, there have been individual Mus...Throughout history, there have been individual Muslims who have behaved with decency towards Jews, as the Iraqis who offered shelter to Jews during the Farhud, or the occasional Turkish diplomat who helped Jews, or the few dozen Righteous described by Satloff.<br /><br />But every instance I have ever seen of absurd claims of general Muslim sainthood in relations with Jews, has turned out to be a myth - from the non-existent Andalusian paradise, to the non-existent Albanian idyll, to the non-existent Muslim deaths ostensibly protecting Jews from the Farhud.<br /><br />Compliments to Bataween for this excellent article.Toko LeMokonoreply@blogger.com