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cherryperry

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Fri Aug-01-03 07:53 AM
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1. Yeah!!!

The reason why 99% of the Iraqi Jewish community departed following Israel's independence — they (like Jews in Syria, Libya, Egypt and other Arab nations) were systematically expelled by the Iraqi government. Iraqi legislation in 1948-51 first outlawed Zionist "behavior," then deprived Jews of their Iraqi nationality, access to education, and finally, of all their property. President Truman helped organize a massive airlift in 1951 to bring the desperate Iraqi Jewish community to Israel.

Read an expose of the persecution suffered by the Iraqi Jewish community:
- Denver's Rocky Mountain News

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