Farhud commemoration

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http://blogs.timesofisrael.com/the-farhud-the-arab-kristallnacht-the-world-forgot/

In the lead-up to Shavuot, we have been commemorating a little-known event which occurred 75 years ago. The Nazi-inspired pogrom, the Farhud, sounded the death knell for Iraq’s ancient Jewish community. It heralded the ethnic cleansing of 99 % of Jews from Arab countries.

At a moving ceremony last Thursday attended by 300 people and the Israeli ambassador Mark Regev, eight children lit candles for each of the defunct Jewish communities in Arab countries. Twenty-seven notes were blown on a plaintive shofar to represent the 27 centuries that Jews had lived continuously in Iraq since the Babylonian exile.

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Interesting story.

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1. and the coda

http://www.timesofisrael.com/the-expulsion-that-backfired-when-iraq-kicked-out-its-jews/

(published last week)

-- Suffice to say, it did not go so well for the Iraqi Jewish community in 1948-9

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2. Some observations

1. The Farhud pogrom/expulsion happened in 1941. That was before there was a Partition Resolution. Before Israel. Before any war. Before and land taking. Before any refugees.

2. That means that the core (but not all) of Arab hostility to the Jews is Arab/Muslim antisemitism.

3. Farhud was caused by the Mufti. The same Mufti who helped to create the Palestinian people that has been ruled for most of its existence by his ideological descendants.

4. Which is why even though something like Farhud would not be guranteed by the creation of a single state, it is so overwhelmingly likely to happen that the Israelis would have to be crazy or dead to allow it.

5. Most of your readers here already understand this.

6. It's just that the one staters and the BDS'ers don't care.