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To: Nadine Carroll who wrote (105083)	7/13/2003 8:56:19 PM
From: Noel de Leon	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 281500

"But they never mentioned the size of the original community. Nobody would have guessed from their one number "7000 exiles", that Baghdad was 40% Jewish before WWII." What's your point? That the Iraqi Jews who moved to Israel have not expressed an interest in returning to re-build Iraq? The story was about Jewish Iraqi exiles who want to return to Iraq and re-build the country, not about Israeli citizens of Iraqi descent who have not expressed an interest in returning to Iraq to re-build the country. By the way did the majority of the Iraqi Jews emigrate to Israel before or after Saddam came to power? "No, it hasn't played on my stations. Saw reviews, though. Didn't they also report that Israel used nerve gas on the Palestinians?" from the BBC program; part 1 electronicintifada.net part 2 electronicintifada.net "00.33.21 Olenka Frenkiel: The Israeli army has used new unidentified weapons. In February 2001, a new gas was used in Gaza. A hundred and eighty patients were admitted to hospitals with severe convulsions. 00.33.41 Voiceover: The Israelis say this is tear gas. But this is not tear gas. We have never seen this gas before. We need some medicine for treatment. But it must be the right medicine. (My comment; this is a translation of what was being said. The pictures were very graphic, showing several people with severe convulsions.) 00.33.56 Dr MOHAMMED SALAMA, Director, Palestinian Health Ministry: We asked, what kind of gas? But nobody verified for us the type of gas to give the antidote at that moment. Also we don't know how to check, how to examine, how to send this. We are in occupied area. We are surrounded. It is impossible to send these samples to international lab to test. 00.34.27 Olenka Frenkiel: Israel is outside chemical and biological weapons treaties and still refuses to say what the new gas was." This site has allegations about chemical and biological events from 1948-1980. indexonline.org On the other hand this site from MSNBC was interesting for its detail on Israel's WMD capability. Far more detailed than BBC's program which primarily was about Vanunu and Demona. msnbc.com