[yonif]

Ping.

[claudiustg]

Yeah, right!

[per loin]

This is an obvious cover story for the top secret Israeli plan to takeover Haiti and loot its immense wealth.

[onedoug]

Treatment of the Jews in Babylon

[pabianice]

Oh, my G-d! Jews in Iraq! Clean homes and streets, higher education standards, stable families, savings and investment in the community, plummeting crime! The horror... the horror...

[BlueNgold]

Drat! Foiled Again!

[playball0]

This is typical arab press stuff. There is always a "Jewish plot" story around. Our equivalent might be the Enquirer reporting about space aliens.

Rooting out islamist hate mongers will be a forever task.

[SunkenCiv]

I'm sure the Skinheads will take this and run with it. Thanks for posting that, it's good for some amusement and bemusement, and has this link:

The New Iraqi Press and the Jews
by Dr. Nimrod Raphaeli
August 26, 2003

In 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.

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 Arabs are after our blood"
by Christopher Farah
Jan. 23, 2004

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.