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General Forums => The O' Club => Topic started by: Nefarious on April 02, 2004, 01:04:15 PM
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In the early 1950's, tens of thousands of Jews had thier Iraqi Citizenship revoked. They Fled, most to Israel. Many Iraqi jews now want to return and help rebuild the country. At the end of 2003 the new Iraqi governing council approved a proposal to let thousands of former Iraqi citizens to reclaim their citizenship, except for the former jewish citizens.
I read this in a little military magazine I recently recieved in the mail.
Why doesnt this make any sense to me? If were over there fighting to make a "Free" and "Democratic" Iraq, Then why are we allowing the Iraqi governing council to let this pass? It seems like were allowing them to become some hardline Islamic State, Just what we need more of in the Middle East :rolleyes:...
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what magazine did you read this in. i havent heard this one yet. and i bet you are right... they want to become the strict state like every other Muslim country.
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Originally posted by Nefarious
I read this in a little military magazine I recently recieved in the mail.
Why doesnt this make any sense to me? If were over there fighting to make a "Free" and "Democratic" Iraq, Then why are we allowing the Iraqi governing council to let this pass? It seems like were allowing them to become some hardline Islamic State, Just what we need more of in the Middle East :rolleyes:...
Not true, if you believe that old conman Ahmad Chalabi, a member of the Iraqi Governing Council. In a paragraph within Article eleven of the constitution it was stated that any Iraqi who had lost his or her nationality is allowed to return to the country. In an interview with the New York Times from March 24 2004, Chalabi mentioned that the paragraph includes the Jews.
That is only a temporary, occupation-government enforced constitution, so whether it would stand past the promised elections is open to question. In short, Jewish Iraqis aren't making any plans.
Also, given the current political climate, and their past history, why the heck would ex-pat Jews bother going back to Iraq? Remember - there was a reason they left, and Iraq is a much less safe place to live now than when they left.
Were the CPA to enforce it, what would happen? Things are going badly enough for the CPA with them foisting unpopular exiles like Chalabi on the populace as their "representatives". In fact it seems kinda obvious to me that anyone with any long term political aspirations wouldn't touch membership of the US occupation government with a 40' pole. Can you say collaborator? I knew you could.
If the CPA were to foist a bunch of exiled Iraqi Jews (who are themselves unwilling to go) onto Iraq, the whole place will go postal on them. Kinda like holding a candlelit vigil in a fireworks factory - nice intention, but suicidally stupid for all concerned. The whole of the muslim world will see it as the start of turning Iraq into West Bank/Gaza 2, that idiot book the Protocols of Elders of Zion will be a best seller again, and Al Qaeda will have more people learning to blow themselves up than the US has tall buildings.
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Originally posted by 101ABN
what magazine did you read this in. i havent heard this one yet. and i bet you are right... they want to become the strict state like every other Muslim country.
April 2004
Military
Vol XX No. 11
You can visit their website ay www.milmag.com
It's a very conservative Magazine printed on newsprint, On the cover is pictures of a MiG25 that they dug out of the desert In Iraq.