The vanishing Jews of the Arab world

SFGate ^ | 3-8-05 | Semha Alwaya

[SJackson]

I have never agreed with the charge that somehow America was culpable in the holocaust becuase they did not bomb the railroad tracks in central and eastern Europe. Its a relatively new idea.

Probably because America isn't. It's a nonsensical arguement.

[SJackson]

Don't thank me, I have nothing to do with these things.

[chukcha]

I've read that Morocco & Jordan still have Jewish communities.

Morocco - yes, very small, Jordan - I doubt it. It is illegal for a Jew to own any property in Jordan.

[KC_Conspirator]

You can here the this idea discussed in academic circles now in these "holocaust studies" classes.

[chukcha]

Having the US back the formation of Isreal when the "international community" was against it ...

Please, don't invent history. Even Soviet Union voted for the creation of Israel.

UN General Assembly Resolution 181 11/29/1947. It called for the partition of the British-ruled Palestine Mandate into a Jewish state and an Arab state.

In favour: 33

Australia, Belgium, Bolivia, Brazil, Byelorussian S.S.R., Canada, Costa Rica, Czechoslovakia, Denmark, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, France, Guatemala, Haiti, Iceland, Liberia, Luxemburg, Netherlands, New Zealand, Nicaragua, Norway, Panama, Paraguay, Peru, Philippines, Poland, Sweden, Ukrainian S.S.R., Union of South Africa, U.S.A., U.S.S.R., Uruguay, Venezuela.

Against: 13

Afghanistan, Cuba, Egypt, Greece, India, Iran, Iraq, Lebanon, Pakistan, Saudi Arabia, Syria, Turkey, Yemen.

Abstained: 10

Argentina, Chile, China, Colombia, El Salvador, Ethiopia, Honduras, Mexico, United Kingdom, Yugoslavia.

[sheik yerbouty]

Are you lost again?

[KC_Conspirator]

I am not inventing history. In fact, your layout shows that I am right. It took alot of arm twisting to get to 33 countries by 1947. Don't you think that after the holocaust and the Nuremburg trials that this should have been pretty damn close to a unaminous vote? But 23 countries, including Great Britain (authors of the Balfour Declaration) did not vote for it?

[chukcha]

In fact, your layout shows that I am right.

whatever...

[free_european]

The Soviets were in favour chiefly as they imagined Israel would be a client state, later events disabused them of that.

[underlying]

From the article:
In 1941 ... In a two-day period Arab mobs went on a rampage in Baghdad and elsewhere in Iraq, murdering, raping and pillaging these cities' Jewish communities. Nearly 200 Jews were killed, more than 2,000 injured; some 900 Jewish homes were destroyed and looted, as were hundreds of Jewish-owned shops. My father was a survivor of the carnage. He hid in a hole dug in the ground to save his life. He saw Iraqi soldiers pull small children away from their parents and rip the arms off young girls to steal their bracelets. He saw pregnant women being raped and their stomachs cut open.

[underlying]

From the article:
In 1948, Iraq rounded up and imprisoned hundreds of Jews. Others were removed from their jobs in the civil service, business licenses of Jews were revoked, and quotas were placed on Jewish high school and college students. Later, discriminatory restrictions were imposed on Jewish travel abroad and the buying or selling of property.
In 1950, the Iraqi parliament passed a law called Ordinance for the Cancellation of Iraqi Nationality for Jews, Law No. 1 that stripped Iraqi Jews of their citizenship. In 1951, the Iraqi parliament passed another law, confiscating all Jewish property.

[underlying]

muslims and nonmuslims