Newsgroup: it.politica.internazionale
Titolo: Israel wants Iraq to pay compensation

Ma sono proprio degli stronzi patentati.
Dopo averla voluta e molto probabilmne te realizzata questa fotuta guerra,
dopo che si sono fottuti gli appalti per la raffinazione del greggio
iracheno, queste merde vogliono anche essere compensate ...
Dopo aver usurpato le terre dei palestinesi queste merde si permettono di
chiedere compensation per i cittadini israeliani 'forzati' ad abbandonare le
loro proprieta'...
Meriterebbero una lunga sequenza di calci in culo da Bagdad a Tel Aviv...
Aljazeera.net + Agencies
by Lawrence Smallman
Israel looks set to pursue a compensation claim on behalf of Jews who left
Iraq over 50 years ago, despite no such similar consideration for
Palestinian refugees.
Tel Aviv has sent copies of over 800 documents to Washington - not Baghdad -
in a bid to claim compensation for Israeli citizens who "were forced to
abandon their property".
A diaspora affairs ministry spokeswoman told Aljazeera.net on Tuesday that
records have already been sent to the US State Department.
Comprising "a partial list of Jewish properties as well as hundreds of
marriage and death certificates from between 1949 and 2001", the papers were
found by US-led occupation forces in Baghdad.
They had been water-damaged and were difficult to decipher. Nevertheless,
spokeswoman Rivka Kanarek said the documents "contribute to an evaluation of
properties" in Baghdad.
Selected representative comment
Iraq's minister for reconstruction and planning, Bayan Sulagh, said on 31
March that Jews who left en masse "after coming under massive pressure in
the wake of Israel's creation" would be entitled to reclaim their property.
"Everyone knows there used to be Jews in Iraq and they owned property. Under
the law, every Iraqi has the right to reclaim what belongs to them."
But any compensation claim will necessarily have to look into the causes of
the mass emigration.
Why would a community of 120,000, settled for over 2000 years in Baghdad,
suddenly abandon their homes? The Jewish community was well integrated into
Iraqi society, and generally prosperous. Yet during 1950 and 1951, more than
95% of the Jewish population left Iraq for Israel via airlifts known as
Operation Ezra and Nehemiah.
Historically accurate?
But historians are now questioning the traditional Zionist explanation for
the exodus.
Speaking at a Jewish Studies Conference in Australia earlier this year,
historian  Philip Mendes of Latrobe University dismissed as simplistic the
Israeli claim that the exodus was a response to a long history of
persecution .
He contends that the exodus from Iraq can also be attributed to numerous
other factors - such as the prominent and popular identification of Jews
with Communism and a British-Iraqi fear of political domination by the
Soviet Union.
Nevertheless, Tel Aviv will continue to push for compensation over an exodus
it may have partially helped to engineer while refusing to even consider
financial compensation for the Palestinians who have been refugees for over
half a century.
No disapora affairs ministry official was prepared to comment on the
apparent paradox.
PIC1 CAPTION:  Old Jewish quarter of Baghdad a shadow of its former self
PIC2 CAPTION:  There are less than two dozen Jews left in Baghdad today
You can find this article at:
http://english.aljazeera.net/NR/exeres/9C7587BA-2976-4ECA-9409-B3CA2D72515A.htm

queste merde vogliono anche essere compensate ...
Perche' non dovrebbero?
-Stefano

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Per whip:
"A diaspora affairs ministry ..."
Hanno anche un ministero per la diaspora affair... Ora capisci perche dico
che il termine 'antisemita' e' altamente strumentalizzato politicamente e
soprattutto economicamente...
K