Come on, you don't think hatred of Jews has much to do with what's going on in Iraq, or even has any manifestation in Iraq, do you? There haven't been any Jews in Iraq for a long time as far as I know.
There was a fairly large Jewish population in Iraq as recently as 1951, when their property was confiscated and they were kicked out. About 200,000 of them. Back in the Ottoman Empire days, they were actually the largest single group in Bagdhad--a little more than 80,000 Jews according to a 1917 census, at a time when there were just a little more than 100,000 Moslems (another 20,000 Christians and "Other"). If you divide the Moslems into Sunni and Shia groups, the Jews outnumber each one.
When they were kicked out, they were allowed to take $150 per person with them. Newsflash--they were a fairly wealthy and prominent community, having been there continously since ancient times, and having had pretty good relations with the Ottoman Turks.
Please remember that next time you talk about "just" solutions for Palestineans. |
