The Last Jews of Baghdad - NewsNight with Aaron Brown CNN

The Last Jews of Baghdad - NewsNight with Aaron Brown CNN.

Rachel Zelon of Hebrew Immigrant Aid Society (HIAS) of New York.

Originally aired: October 20, 2004.

Transcript: http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0410/20/asb.01.html

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[Tigris363]

"i am iraqi muslim and i wish iraqi jews could come back to their ancient land they are part of iraq and they are iraqi. and i know what former iraqi regimes did was wrong but we could forget past and shape the future.

[72Yonatan]

Thank you for sharing this story; it made me cry tears of joy and gratitude. 

[gablio77]

@waterlovingnymph. I'm touched seeing my taxes pay for the military escorts for someone old enough to have devirginized Stella Adler...go fuck yourself.

[KoooLNutZ]

Under Islamic state u find dazzling blossoming of Jewish arts, letters, sciences & medicine over 1000 years. It brought affluence & prestige to the Jews, some of whom became ministers & government advisers. Judaism & its Hebrew language developed their “golden age” under the aegis of Islam Hebrew acquired its first grammar, the Torah its most highly developed jurisprudence, Hebrew letters their lyrical poetry & Hebrew philosophy found its first Aristotelian, Musa ibn Maymun (Maimonides) in Egypt

[KoooLNutZ]

Naeim Giladi stated he was a former member of an underground Zionist terrorist group in Iraq in his own words.

He says “ Jews from Islamic lands did not emigrate willingly to Israel; but, to force them to leave, Jews killed Jews; and that, to buy time to confiscate ever more Arab lands, Jews on numerous occasions rejected genuine peace initiatives from their Arab neighbors. I write about what the first prime minister of Israel called “cruel Zionism“. I write about it because I was part of it“

[yz2012]

@KoooLNutZ Jewish studies scholar, Philip Mendes suggests that, "It therefore remains an open question as to who was responsible for the bombings," claiming that "memories and interpretations of the events have further been influenced and distorted by the unfortunate discrimination which many Iraqi Jews experienced on their arrival in Israel. He does say, however, that Gat argues "convincingly" that there was "was little direct connection between the bombings and exodus."

[yz2012]

@KoooLNutZ Yes read about Jews who lived at the time telling their experiences. I think you will find it quite contradictory to a lone Iraqi Jew. I've also heard of lone Palestinians denying that Israelis committed ethnic cleansing in 1948, which we all know certainly happened. These are what statisticians call outliers.

Also many of the attrocities committed by Arab governments towards its Jews occurred in the 1950s and in the aftermath of the June 1967 War.

[KoooLNutZ]

@yz2012 all I said was u need to see the full documentary on BBC related to the Gentleman on " this video "

But u seem to have jumped into another subject of Sephardim & Mizrahim Jews. If I need to know about that, all I have to do is read about Scolars of historical analysis or Jews who lived at the time telling their experiences.

e.g: a book called "Ben-Gurion's scandals" written By an Iraqi Jew named Naeim Giladi who was president of the World Organization of Jews From Islamic Countries

[yz2012]

@KoooLNutZ It's really sad that you label anything supporting Jews as a "Zionist story". It's amazing that the conflict is so polarised that you refuse to admit that Jews were mistreated in Arab countries. Do you think that it eases Palestinian suffering to deny that Sefardi & Mizrahi Jews also suffered?

[KoooLNutZ]

zionist story tellers.

I mean u can see for yourselves the documentary on BBC why the old man decided to go to israel. Totally different story. eh

[Musicofthissphere]

@TuberHyper truth is not propaganda, idiot

[TuberHyper]

@sarc2

its worth watch : "the last jew of Babylon" for continuation of the Zionist propaganda