Comments on: Israel Education System Disses Arab Students

By: Shirin

Shirin — Sun, 21 Feb 2010 05:53:45 +0000

Then it looks like they have some attachment to their homeland, Iraq, and reasonable confidence that they are not in any more danger than any other Iraqi. And how do you explain the fact that they did not leave before they became old and fragile?

By the way, I do recall seeing some articles in the mainstream U.S. press after the 2003 invasion about the handful of Jews still in Iraq, and recall how they spoke to how their non-Jewish neighbors were looking after them, and protecting them and their property along with their own. Who knows? Maybe that’s why they prefer to remain where they are among the people they have lived with and known all their lives.

By: Shirin

Shirin — Sun, 21 Feb 2010 05:15:15 +0000

Ah yes! When Jews are hanged in the center of Baghdad, or disappeared, etc., it can only be because they are Jews, but when even larger numbers of Muslims, or Christians, or Kurds, or Turkmens are hanged, or disappeared, etc., it is not at all about their identity, of course.

By the way, just as an FYI, we knew Muslims and Christians who were murdered or disappeared in the ’70′s, and did you know that after the Ba’th party took over the Americans gave them lists of Iraqi Communists the Americans wanted liquidated? A lot of Iraqi Communists were Jews, but I suppose in those cases they were not liquidated because they were Communists, but because they were Jews. Only the Muslims and Christians were liquidated for being Communists.

By: Shirin

Shirin — Sun, 21 Feb 2010 05:05:13 +0000

I know who Rachel Shabi is, and I know her history. No one has said she represents the Jews of Iraq. She is certainly qualified to write and speak about Iraqi Jews and the Iraqi Jewish experience, and she is without a doubt more qualified to do so than some Ashkenazi Israeli with an axe to grind against Arabs.

By: Richard Silverstein

Richard Silverstein — Sat, 20 Feb 2010 00:40:16 +0000

But not fearful enough of losing their lives to leave.

By: Richard Silverstein

Richard Silverstein — Sat, 20 Feb 2010 00:39:39 +0000

This is sophistry. Find a credible source that says there are 7 Jews left in Iraq. I put it to him & I put it to you.

And are you claiming that Jews were singled out and deliberately exiled out of Muslim Jew-hatred? If so, you’re smokin’ some powerful weed. Every ethnic group esp. minorities suffered terribly in Iraq, not just Jews. But certainly Jews suffered as well. Many Kurds, Shiites and Sunni have wanted to leave but couldn’t. The fact that Jews could get out is lucky for them.

By: Richard Silverstein

Richard Silverstein — Sat, 20 Feb 2010 00:36:43 +0000

Israel has done more than its share of black ops in Arab countries to spook Jews into emigrating. Do you deny the history? Am I saying Jews weren’t mistreated at certain times in certain countries? No. Beyond that, what’s yr pt?

By: theiraqijew

theiraqijew — Sat, 20 Feb 2010 00:09:12 +0000

They are old and fragile and fearfull of any change.

By: theiraqijew

theiraqijew — Sat, 20 Feb 2010 00:07:50 +0000

Bataween knows that there are 7 Jews in Iraq as I do. Do you want there names and addresses and maybe their telephone numbers; or maybe even if we do this, you will accuse us that we fabricated the names, addresses and numbers. These people are old and they live in poverty but they fear changes. Is this really the issue or it is that there were 150,000 Jews in Iraq and now there are only seven.