So says the Jew York Times, anyway!!!
Wait a minute, you mean Jews had it better under Saddam Hussein?
:-)
Of course it is FRONT-PAGE NEWS in the Jew York Times!
Pffffffftt!!!
Seriously, why don't they just bullhorn "Zionist propaganda sheet" at the top of the heading? And how about this quoted gem of an extraction?"He stays mainly in his own neighborhood, protected by Muslim neighbors who have been family friends for decades....
The holdout’s father says that he regrets leaving Iraq, the country of his birth.... “In Iraq I was always with my friends. Everyone was very, very, very, very nice. I had Muslim friends for 50 to 60 years. They were friends, like family. I used to spend more time with Arabs than Jews.”
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Sort of SMASHES the ZIONIST PROPAGANDA to PIECES, doesn't it?
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Baghdad Jews Have Become a Fearful Few"
BAGHDAD — “I have no future here to stay.”
Written in broken English but with perfect clarity, the message is a stark and plaintive assessment from one of the last Jews of Babylon.
The community of Jews in Baghdad is now all but vanished in a land where their heritage recedes back to Abraham of Ur, to Jonah’s prophesying to Nineveh, and to Nebuchadnezzar’s sending Jews into exile here more than 2,500 years ago.
Just over half a century ago, Iraq’s Jews numbered more than 130,000. But now, in the city that was once the community’s heart, they cannot muster even a minyan, the 10 Jewish men required to perform some of the most important rituals of their faith. They are scared even to publicize their exact number, which was recently estimated at seven by the Jewish Agency for Israel, and at eight by one Christian cleric. That is not enough to read the Torah in public, if there were anywhere in public they would dare to read it, and too few to recite a proper Kaddish for the dead.
Among those who remain is a former car salesman who describes himself as the “rabbi, slaughterer and one of the leaders of the Jewish community in Iraq.”
Although many of his Muslim friends and immediate neighbors know he is Jewish (“I’m proud, I’m Jewish, not ashamed. I’m not hiding,” he wrote at one point.), he was wary of being named because it could draw more dangerous attention to him or his friends. To protect him, he is referred to as Saleh’s grandson, because his or his father’s name would be too easily recognizable here. Interviews with him were conducted by correspondence over the course of several months.
He lamented that Jews in Baghdad had had no meeting place since the Meir Tweig synagogue, the last in the city, was closed in 2003, after it became too dangerous to gather openly. Now wait a minute.
Jews had a place to pray BEFORE Saddam was deposed, huh?
And now?
NICE LIBERATION, Georgie!!!
I wonder when the Jews are going to wake up and realize Zionism is destroying them.
“I do my prayer in my house because we closed the synagogue from the war until now. If we open it, it will be a target,” he wrote, adding later: “I have no future here, I can’t marry, there is no girl. I can’t put my kova on my head out of the house. If I’m out of Iraq, I’ll share with people in all our feasts and do my prayer in the synagogue and will be with my family.”
Now in his early 40s, he exists as anonymously and discreetly as he can. He cannot reliably hide his religion: it is stamped on his official identity card, which he must present at any security checkpoint.
An identity card, as if the Muslims are Nazis!!!
Never mind the fucking retinal scans, fingerprints and other assorted ills the U.S. occupation has delivered to Iraqis!
This is why I get so sick of the Jew York fuckin' Times!!!!
So he stays mainly in his own neighborhood, protected by Muslim neighbors who have been family friends for decades.
He is a very cautious man. After contact with him was first established through an intermediary, and his identity was confirmed by his family abroad, he consented to speak directly for only a few moments over the telephone. Even that was just to propose a safer way to correspond, under a version of his name different from the one that other Iraqis know.
His fears are all too real in a city where bodies are still found dumped in the street almost daily, despite a fall in the overall death toll.
Christians, a far larger group, have fled Iraq by the thousands, and even Sunni and Shiite Muslims, who live among millions of their fellows, remain fearful of religious and sectarian fanatics.
Yeah, and isn't it strange how those guys showed up once we did, readers?
I mean, THOUSANDS of YEARS went by with no mosques being blown up, Shia and Sunni intermarrying, Jews being allowed to worship throughout the Middle East.
But you would never know or understand that if you just read the Zionist-controlled AmeriKan War Dailies and their ZIONIST BRAINWASHING TRASH!!!!!!!
Type "FRU" into my blog sometime and scroll down for links.
As for the Christians, well, WAKE UP!!
Your ANTI-CHRIST is FULFILLING PROPHECY as I type!!!
And you thought he was going to be an Arab!!!
Jews were once a wealthy and politically active part of the spectrum of Iraq. In a fading red volume of the Iraq Directory of 1936, the “Israelite community,” then numbering about 120,000, is listed along with Arabs, Kurds, Turkmen, Muslims, Christians, Yazidis and Sabeans. Rescued from a Baghdad library, this book lists Hebrew among the six languages of Iraq and describes a country in which “the mosque stands beside the church and the synagogue.”
However, the directory predates decades of trauma: the 1941 Farhud pogrom in which more than 130 Jews were killed during the Feast of Shavuot, World War II, the Holocaust, the anti-Zionism of Saddam Hussein and the post-2003 rise of Islamic militants.
Yeah, but somehow the Baghdad synagogue remained open all that time... until USrael invaded!!!!
Pfffftttt!!!
Also see: Occupation Iraq: Israelis Killing U.S. Troops
Occupation Iraq: Israeli-Trained Death Squads
As for all that other Zionist crap, fuck them!!!
Fuck Zionists who MASS-MURDER PALESTINIANS in a CAMPAIGN of GENOCIDE!!!!
No more sympathy, Zionists, because you lied to me for so long.
I was a BELIEVER once!! I went to the museum, dicks!!!
Now I've found out that it is ALL BULLSHIT!!!!
Most traces of Jews are now gone beside the Prat and the Hidekel rivers, the Hebrew names for the Euphrates and Tigris. Baghdad’s Jewish quarter, in Taht al-Takia, is no more. And about 80 miles south of Baghdad lies the Hebrew-inscribed tomb of the Prophet Ezekiel, “son of Buzi.” During a visit there on Saturday, dozens of Muslim pilgrims filed through the well-tended shrine, its interior blackened by centuries of lamp smoke, to honor Ezekiel as a respected prophet.
Among these fragments of their civilization live the moribund huddle of holdouts.
The Times is acting as if Iraq somehow BELONGS to JEWS, too!!!!
What CHUTZPAH, to coin a word!!!!
Saleh’s grandson is now alone. His mother died two decades ago, his older brother left in 1991, and his father, now 87, was among the last handful of Jews taken from Iraq by the Jewish Agency after 2003, reducing the current community to single figures.
Most of his other relatives departed in 1951, among more than 100,000 Jews who fled Iraq between 1949 and 1952, in the years after the state of Israel was created. Their exodus was code named “Operation Ezra and Nehemiah,” after the Jewish leaders who took their people back to Jerusalem from exile in Babylon beginning in 597 B.C.
Yeah, this was a ZIONIST CAMPAIGN of FEAR to facilitate JEWISH SETTLEMENT of ISRAEL!!!
You guys act like I never read the blogs out here, Times.
FUCK YOU!!!!!
Some of the remaining handful of Iraqi Jews are middle class, including two doctors. Others, including Saleh’s grandson, are poor and unemployed, dependent on handouts.
Notice how Jews are never rich in the Jew York Times, readers?
I mean, the self-serving agenda-pushing and propaganda are so obvious!!!!!
“We see each other if there is something necessary, like a death, or to discuss some important things, or if someone needs help,” he wrote. “We take care about the people in the Jewish community only, not the half or part-Jewish. We don’t know about them after they left us.”
Some Jews say they are too old to leave. Some do not want to leave their friends behind.
All I can do is go pfffffftttt!
The few remaining Jews ignore the entreaties of worried relatives and friends abroad and await an unlikely renaissance, demographic extinction or a more sudden end.
Concern for their safety rose two years ago when one of them, a middle-aged man, was kidnapped. They have no idea whether he was taken because he was Jewish, wealthy, or whether the abduction was random.
Only one?
Iraqis are kidnapped all the time.
There goes the Zionist-biased AmeriKan MSM again!
“We don’t know anything about him, and don’t know the reason,” Saleh’s grandson said.
No ransom? Hmmmmmm.
His relatives voice frustration at his insistence on remaining in Iraq, saying he cannot be persuaded to relinquish the family home. He wants to sell it for $300,000 to help build a new life abroad but has had no takers.
“I talk with him all the time,” said his older brother, who lives in Europe and requested anonymity to protect his brother. “I call him every two weeks, and always I give him advice to leave, because it is dangerous, and because he needs to build his life and to find a wife.”
The family argues that if buyers were going to come forward they would have done so long ago. They say that in Iraq’s current instability, an unscrupulous buyer could simply steal the money back, knowing that Saleh’s grandson would have no recourse without a tribe to protect him.
“Now there is nobody buying because of the situation in Sadr City,” his brother said. “I keep telling him, ‘Money is nothing.’ ”
Awww, the Jew can't sell? That must really be annoying them!
Sorry, but what you give is what you get, shit-slingers!!!!
The Jewish Agency for Israel, an organization that arranges immigration to the Holy Land, has offered to relocate the entire group. “Should the remaining Jews in Baghdad request to immigrate to Israel, the Jewish Agency will immediately facilitate this request and also take care of their absorption needs in Israel,” said Zeev Bielski, the agency’s chairman.
What did I say above, readers?
It's a ZIONIST organization, and for some reason the Zionist-controlled Jew York Times has a hard time spitting that word out.
It finds that "suicide bomber" just rolls of the tongue, though!!!
However, Michael Jankelowitz, an agency spokesman, conceded: “They are not interested in leaving. Their philosophy is, ‘We are old, no one is affecting our day-to-day life. If we have to leave, we know how to contact the Jewish Agency.’ ”
Excuse me? They DON'T WANT to LEAVE to go to Israel?!?!
Well, yeah, I KNOW!!!!
If you READ BLOGS you would know this fact!!!
It is the SAME with the Iranian Jews!!!!
The holdout’s father says that he regrets leaving Iraq, the country of his birth, five years ago, but that he would not return in the current dangerous climate.
“Why did we have to leave?” he said, sighing. “In Iraq I was always with my friends. Everyone was very, very, very, very nice. I had Muslim friends for 50 to 60 years. They were friends, like family. I used to spend more time with Arabs than Jews.”
Oh, readers!!
And WHY is this CONTRADICTORY information saved for the ASS-END of the article, readers?
Part of a pattern down at the Jew York Times (see above post).
His son says he knows the risks. “I’d like to leave, but I have my house, I can’t leave it,” he wrote. “I have no future here to stay.”
He insists that he has responsibilities to his fellow Iraqi Jews, no matter how few in number.
“If I’m faithful in GOD, I’m not afraid of anything,” he wrote, “and GOD BLESS ME.”
May God Bless us all, readers!
