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To:len grasso who wrote (6821)
From: chalu2 Sunday, Oct 14, 2001 3:42 PM
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Len, if Shahak was a Muslim saying similar things about Muslims, how long do you think he would live in, say, Iran or Saudi Arabia?
Didn't he live a nice, long life in Israel?
I would also note that in Isreal there are 1.2 million Israeli Arab citizens. How many Jews live in Egypt anymore, or Iraq?
Can you comment on this?:
With the rise of competing Ba'ath factions in 1963, additional restrictions were placed on the remaining Iraqi Jews. The sale of property was forbidden and all Jews were forced to carry yellow identity cards. After the Six-Day War, more repressive measures were imposed: Jewish property was expropriated; Jewish bank accounts were frozen; Jews were dismissed from public posts; businesses were shut; trading permits were cancelled; telephones were disconnected. Jews were placed under house arrest for long periods of time or restricted to the cities.
Persecution was at its worst at the end of 1968. Scores were jailed upon the discovery of a local "spy ring" composed of Jewish businessmen. Fourteen men - eleven of them Jews - were sentenced to death in staged trials and hanged in the public squares of Baghdad; others died of torture. On January 27, 1969, Baghdad Radio called upon Iraqis to "come and enjoy the feast." Some 500,000 men, women and children paraded and danced past the scaffolds where the bodies of the hanged Jews swung; the mob rhythmically chanted "Death to Israel" and "Death to all traitors." This display brought a world-wide public outcry that Radio Baghdad dismissed by declaring: "We hanged spies, but the Jews crucified Christ."3 Jews remained under constant surveillance by the Iraqi government. An Iraqi Jew (who later escaped) wrote in his diary in February 1970:
Ulcers, heart attacks, and breakdowns are increasingly prevalent among the Jews...The dehumanization of the Jewish personality resulting from continuous humiliation and torment...have dragged us down to the lowest level of our physical and mental faculties, and deprived us of the power to recover.4
In response to international pressure, the Baghdad government quietly allowed most of the remaining Jews to emigrate in the early 1970's, even while leaving other restrictions in force. Most of Iraq's remaining Jews are now too old to leave. They have been pressured by the government to turn over title, without compensation, to more than $200 million worth of Jewish community property.
The Iranian show trials of Jews in 1999 were carbon copies of the Iraqi show trials described above. Why are the Iranians not denounced at Durban?
To:len grasso who wrote (6823)
From: chalu2 Sunday, Oct 14, 2001 3:48 PM
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I added to my post.
The most xenophobic countries are muslim. Christians cannot immigrate to any of them, and undergo terrible persecutions as in Saudi Arabia. The Egyptians torture the Copts. The Christians seen as representing a "foreign element."
To:len grasso who wrote (6823)
From: chalu2 Sunday, Oct 14, 2001 3:54 PM
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As far as his "point", I look to deeds rather than words or biased opinion polls. In the past ten years, how many Arabs have been killed by Jewish suicide bombers? Why don't young Jews kill Arabs indiscriminately if they are so evil and bellicose?
How many U.S. presidential candidates have been shot in the head by a Jew?
How many buildings in countries that support the Palestinians have Israelis blown up or attacked? Europe is often unfriedly to Israel. Why has no young Israeli crashed a plane into Euro Disney? |
