Iraq, the new generation of Iraqis is so anti-Jewish and anti-Israel that we could soon reach a point of the total denial of the historical existence Iraqis’ of the Jewish community and its contribution over so many centuries. Given the news we hear these afraid where Iraq looks to be days, I’m that’s heading. Iraq is in a sad chapter today. In our days, while the division between Shi'ite and Sunni was acknowledged, there wasn't physical fighting or even a belligerence of any kind between the two. What's happening now is absolutely shocking. And while very sad that the Jewish community of it’s Iraq is gone, can one imagine what the Jews would have been facing today if there were still a good-sized Jewish community in the country? I think most Iraqi Jews really had strong feelings for Iraq and great wishes for its prosperity, and that has been squelched as well. 36 . و و و و و له و و 37. When I left in 1971, I had already been admitted to graduate school in Canada, at the University of Toronto. My younger sister followed me a year or two later. My parents get passports at the time, because they couldn’t knew that if the whole family tried to get passports at once we would have
له Iraq, the new generation of Iraqis is so anti-Jewish and anti-Israel that we could soon reach a point of the Iraqis’ total denial of the historical existence of the Jewish community and its contribution over so many centuries. Given the news we hear these days, I’m afraid that’s where Iraq looks to be heading. Iraq is in a sad chapter today. In our days, while the division between Shi'ite and Sunni was acknowledged, there wasn't physical fighting or even a belligerence of any kind between the two. What's happening now is absolutely shocking. And while it’s very sad that the Jewish community of Iraq is gone, can one imagine what the Jews would have been facing today if there were still a good-sized Jewish community in the country? I think most Iraqi Jews really had strong feelings for Iraq and great wishes for its prosperity, and that has been squelched as well. 36 . و و و و و و و 37. When I left in 1971, I had already been admitted to graduate school in Canada, at the University of Toronto. My younger sister followed me a year or two later. My parents couldn’t get passports at the time, because they knew that if the whole family tried to get passports at once we would have
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