The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #111199   Message #2341439
Posted By: CarolC
15-May-08 - 02:06 PM
Thread Name: BS: Obama on Zionism, Jews
Subject: RE: BS: Obama on Zionism, Jews
The Iraqi Jewish community, numbering 120,000 in 1948, left the country over the three year period of 1949-1952.

Much of the violence that you are characterizing as "antiSemetic" was, in fact, terrorism committed by Israeli paramilitary and terrorist organizations. There was a concerted effort on the part of the Israeli leadership to terrorize the Jewish population of Iraq into leaving that country.

Yemen is an interesting story. The Jews there, who were not at all familiar with modern technology and had never even seen an airplane, were tricked into leaving by Israelis who showed up in airplanes with the biblical phrase "the wings of eagles", which the Yemenite Jews were persuaded was a fulfillment of biblical prophecy, and they were removed from Yemen by the Israeli leadership.

Once the Yemenite Jews were in Israel, they were confined to camps where many died, and their children were declared dead, and stolen from them to be sold to people in the West. These children only discovered their own history when they were being enlisted in the military and were told that they had been declared dead when they were small.