To: Broken_Clock who wrote (796543 ) 7/23/2014 7:40:07 PM From: scamp Respond to of 1579144 JEWS IN IRAQ IN 1948 Its Jewish community (110,000 people in 1948) was well-implanted in the country. The chief Rabbi of Irak, Khedouri Sassoon had declared : "The Jews and Arabs have enjoyed the same rights and privileges for a thousand years and do not consider themselves as separate elements in this nation." Then began the Israeli terrorist acts in Baghdad in 1950. Confronted by the reticence of the Iraki Jews to register on the immigration lists for Israel, the Israeli secret services did not hesitate to throw bombs at them to convince them they were in danger...The attack on the Shem-Tov synagogue killed three people and injured dozens more. It was the start of the exodus baptized "Operation Ali Baba". Source : Ha'olam hazeh. April 20th and June 1st 1966, and "Yediot Aahronot", November 8th 1977. This has been a consistent doctrine ever since Theodore Herzl replaced the definition of Jew no longer as a religion but as a race. Article 4b of the fundamental law of the State of Israel (which has no constitution),which defines the "Law of the return" (5710 of 1950), stipulates that: ...will be considered as Jewish a person born of a Jewish mother, or converted. (racial or confessional criteria) Source : Klein : "L'Etat juif", ed. Dunod.Paris.p.156. This was in keeping with the founding doctrine of Theodore Herzl, who constantly harped on the theme in his "Diaries". As early as 1895, he declared to a German interlocutor (Speidel) : "I understand anti-Semitism. We Jews have remained, even if it is not our fault, foreign bodies in the different nations." Source : ("Diaries", p.9) A few pages further, he is even more explicit : "Anti-Semites will become our surest friends, anti-Semitic countries our allies." Source : ("Diaries", p.19) They did indeed have a common goal : to assemble Jews in a world ghetto. The facts have borne out Theodore Herzl's arguments. Pious Jews, like many Christians, repeated each day : "Next year, Jerusalem, " making of Jerusalem not a specific territory but the symbol of the Alliance between God and Men, and the personal effort to deserve it, so that the "Return" occurred only under the impulse of anti-Semitic threats in foreign countries. Source : Institute for Jewish Affairs of New York, quoted by Christopher Sykes in "Crossroads to Israel", London 1965, and by Nathan Weinstock, "Le sionisme contre Israel," p.146.