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Posted on 03/01/2004 1:05:41 PM PST by yonif
The Ash-Sharq newspaper of Qatar carried a report earlier this month of a Zionist settlement project - in northern Iraq. This follows a paranoid obsession fomented by the Iraqi press with alleged land purchases by Jews in the newly liberated Iraq, particularly by expelled Kurdish Jews.
According to an Islamic fundamentalist website, the newspaper quoted "Turkoman sources" in northern Iraq who claimed that Israel has begun to take control of a 200 sq. km. area along the Syrian border and stretching to Iran. This objective, the newspaper's sources say, is to settle more than 150,000 Jews in the area that Kurdish nationalist parties define as Kurdistan.
Playing on the paranoia regarding "the Zionists" and their own fears of a resurgent Kurdish nationalism, the Turkoman sources told the Arabic newspaper that the "Zionist plot" was part of a greater effort to "create a zone of armed strife" among Iraq's various ethnic and religious groups.
An alternative explanation offered in the Ash-Sharq article is that the Israeli land purchases are part of an Israeli plan to buy up Kurdish oil fields in northern Iraq. Last year, the newspaper claimed, Turkey summoned the Israeli ambassador to Ankara to protest such alleged purchases.
If not for the Zionist plotters, Iraq would be a land of peace. Jews, the SUVs of the Middle East.
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That was coke-through-the-nostrils funny! LOL!
Here's something a month old, from a Jewish author who claimed (falsely) that early leaders of the modern state of Israel displaced the Arabs comes a startling metamorphosis and my nomination for the "Yeah, No Feces" award:The New Iraqi Press and the JewsIn 1950, the Iraqi government introduced a new law allowing Iraqi Jews to relinquish their citizenship and leave the country. Given the hardships created for the Jews at the time the measure was tantamount to expulsion. As many as 120,000 left the country and were able to board charter flights to Israel. In the intervening half century, many others left either legally or illegally, for Europe, Canada, the U.S., or Israel. Today, only about 40 Jews remain in Iraq - most of them elderly residents of Baghdad. There remains one synagogue in the Battaween district of Baghdad, a district which a mere six decades ago was populated mainly by Jews.
by Dr. Nimrod Raphaeli
August 26, 2003
"The Arabs are after our blood"In a recent interview with the liberal Israeli newspaper Haaretz, Morris not only justified the 1948 expulsion of the Palestinians from Israel, but also said that then-Prime Minister David Ben-Gurion failed in his task by not expelling all Arabs from the nascent Jewish state... Morris went on to say that renewed expulsions of the Palestinians -- those in the West Bank and Gaza Strip, and even those who are Israeli citizens -- could be "entirely reasonable" in circumstances that are "liable to be realized in five or 10 years." ...The Arab and Muslim world, in his eyes, consists of barbarians who don't appreciate the value of human life, barbarians knocking on the gates of the civilized West... Like many other Israeli liberals, Morris' optimism about peace, and whether the Palestinians really wanted it, was shaken by the outbreak of the second intifada in 2000 -- after the Oslo peace accords and the Camp David talks had convinced many that a resolution was at hand. With the collapse of the Camp David talks amid mutual acrimony and the escalation of violence, in particular the rise of suicide bombings within Israel, many Israeli peaceniks became disillusioned, feeling that they had found no true "partner for peace" in the Palestinians... "You go to have coffee with your equally liberal friends, you talk peace and human rights and Palestinian independence, and if you are lucky the place blows up only after you leave," says Tom Segev, an Israeli author who like Morris was dubbed a "new historian" for writing books that challenged the traditional Israeli version of history.
by Christopher Farah
Jan. 23, 2004
and, from the web archive:Adiabene, Jewish Kingdom of Mesopotamia...two millennia ago this land sheltered the proud Jewish kingdom of Adiabene, with its capital at Arbela, nominally part of the Assyrian province of the Parthian Empire... Helena, Queen of Adiabene, ruled of an empire influenced by the sciences of the Hellenes and the arts of the Persians, in the old foothills of the northern Tigris, on the south shores of the Caspian Sea, ruled a land increasingly swayed by the policies of the Roman Empire of the east, even as memory of the old Alexandran customs had begun to evaporate from the hearts and minds of the residents. To her east lay the treacherous Parthians, to the north the unpredictable Saksa, Dane and affiliated horse-nomads.
by Jonah Gabriel Lissner
Egad! More Jewish plots. Get it? Jewish plots! I kill me.Ancient Jewish Cemetery Discovered In ArmeniaA Jewish cemetery from the Middle Ages has been discovered by Hebrew University of Jerusalem researchers in Armenia, a country in which a Jewish community had not been known to exist prior to modern times... There is no contemporary Jewish community in the area of the cemetery. Among the gravestones found were 16 with inscriptions in Hebrew and Aramaic and Armenian-style decorations. The stones bore dates from the 13th and 14th centuries... [T]hough there are oral traditions which place Jews in Armenia in ancient times, until now there was no information of the existence of such a community much earlier than the 19th century... The work in Armenia has been supported by the Ben-Zvi Institute for the Study of Jewish Communities in the East, the Biblical Archaeology Foundation, the Israel Antiquities Authority and the Armenian Church's Siwniq Diocese.
March/April 2001
Ancient Jewish Cemetery Discovered In Armenia
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