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To: Noel de Leon who wrote (105169)	7/13/2003 10:04:59 PM
From: Nadine Carroll	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 281500

By the way did the majority of the Iraqi Jews emigrate to Israel before or after Saddam came to power? Before. They were being smuggled out in the 40's, and when the government permitted emigration around 1950, the thoroughly terrorized community stampeded out. Not many were left. Still, every time the BBC mentions other Iraqi exiles they seem to have no trouble mentioning numbers, for instance, that there are 4 million exiles out of a current population of 23 million. My point is: why does the BBC want to avoid mentioning the former size of the Iraqi Jewish community, a most natural number to mention when speaking of Iraqi Jewish exiles? In every show you see about exiles, it will say, "there used to be <x> number of <y> in <mother country>; now there are only <z>, and <current location> now houses <xx> number of the exile community. It's perfectly standard boilerplate. My answer: if they ever mentioned how many there used to be, they would have to mention where most of them are now - Israel. That means they would have to broach a topic that is taboo at the BBC: refugee Jews. The BBC only mentions refugee Arabs.