Clearly someone proposed language which was designed to exclude Jews without actually making the exclusion explicit.
The subterfuge was discovered and is now being addressed.
Iraqi Jews will be full citizens of the new Iraq.
How many Iraqi Jews are left in Iraq? Any? Almost all moved to Israel or America. As far as I know, the only Muslim countries that have Jews anymore are Iran and Egypt. And in both cases they are tiny communities.
An Iraqi politician who visited Israel was arrested, kicked out of Chalabi’s party; and targeted for assassination which succeeded in killing two sons. Does not bode well for relations with Israel. A report I read has Secty Rumsfeld in Iraq now because of his displeasure at al Jaafari’s deals with Iran.
“In February, Mithal al-Alusi paid the highest price for a chance at democracy: His two sons, ages 30 and 22, were gunned down outside his home in Baghdad. Baathists claimed responsibility. The bullets were meant for al-Alusi, 55, head of the secular Democratic Party of the Iraqi Nation. He did not have to be in Iraq: In the 1980s and ’90s, al-Alusi ran a textile company in Germany. His sons went to good schools and visited the U.S. So why did he return? “If we don’t do it,” he asks, “who will?”
Al-Alusi tells us that Iraq’s future hinges on its new constitution, due in August, and he worries about the power of Iraq’s religious parties. If they gain control, he says, Iraq could fall prey to a totalitarian Islamic government like Iran’s: “I fear the day where we say, ‘Bush made the change, but the winner is Iran.’ Then we've lost any hope of peace in the Middle East.” He implores the U.S. not to abandon Iraq, but he wants America “to take us seriously as a partner” and negotiate issues such as a timetable for troop withdrawals. He’s even pressing for ties with Israel to fight terrorism. Al-Alusi was the first Iraqi official to visit the Jewish state. It got him expelled from the Iraqi National Congress and got his sons killed. But he’s not backing down. “Iraqis have only one chance now,” says al-Alusi. “If we lose, terrorism will have a huge support.”
http://archive.parade.com/2005/0612/0612_intelligence.html
http://realclearpolitics.com/Commentary/com-1_28_05_JN.html