RRD:Gee aren't you glad that Israel has a ”partner for peace” in Mahmoud 'Abbas?
PA President Mahmoud 'Abbas: Israel Forced the Iraqi Jews to Emigrate
http://www.memri.org/report/en/0/0/0/0/0/0/6298.htm ..."Some among the Jewish public remember the role played by Mordechai Ben Porat, [who later became] a minister in the Likud government, and by Shlomo Hillel, [who later became] a minister in the Labor government. They headed a secret Zionist organization and planned operations of throwing hand grenades into [Jewish] homes, synagogues and places of business. The Jewish public still remembers that a member of one of these gangs, who had lost his leg, sued Ben Gurion for sending him on the operation in which he was crippled. "Initially, the Zionist movement did not want the Jews of the Arab countries to immigrate to Palestine, because it wanted to create an [exclusively] Ashkenazi state with a West -European character, though it did demand political, financial and media support from the [Jews in the Arab world]... The situation changed following the establishment of the state [of Israel], after the Israeli army occupied larger territories than had been allotted [to the Jews] in the partition plan, and after the Zionists were disappointed [to discover] that the European Jews did not flock to Israel en masse after the end of World War II. [The Zionists] had hoped that these [Jews] would come due to the oppression and suffering inflicted upon them by the Nazis and fascists. "Having no other choice, the Zionist movement turned to the Jewish communities in Iraq, Yemen, North Africa, Egypt and Syria, urging them to emigrate, though these [communities] had no motivation to leave, for they all enjoyed high standards of living, as well as civil and political rights that the European Jews had not even dreamt of for centuries. In Iraq, for example, after the declaration of the constitution in 1908... the Jew Sassoon Eskell became the first minister of finance in 1921, and held this position for several consecutive terms. Article Two of Iraq's Founding Assembly Law, of 1922, stipulated that [five] members of the assembly must be Jews: two from Baghdad and one each from Mosul, Al-Basra and Kirkuk. Parliamentary Elections Law No. 11, from 1946, stipulated that the Jews would be represented [in parliament] by [six Jewish] MPs: three from Baghdad, two from Al-Basra, and one from Mosul, in addition to a [Jewish] representative in the Senate”....
PA President Mahmoud 'Abbas: Israel Forced the Iraqi Jews to Emigrate
http://www.memri.org/report/en/0/0/0/0/0/0/6298.htm ..."Some among the Jewish public remember the role played by Mordechai Ben Porat, [who later became] a minister in the Likud government, and by Shlomo Hillel, [who later became] a minister in the Labor government. They headed a secret Zionist organization and planned operations of throwing hand grenades into [Jewish] homes, synagogues and places of business. The Jewish public still remembers that a member of one of these gangs, who had lost his leg, sued Ben Gurion for sending him on the operation in which he was crippled. "Initially, the Zionist movement did not want the Jews of the Arab countries to immigrate to Palestine, because it wanted to create an [exclusively] Ashkenazi state with a West -European character, though it did demand political, financial and media support from the [Jews in the Arab world]... The situation changed following the establishment of the state [of Israel], after the Israeli army occupied larger territories than had been allotted [to the Jews] in the partition plan, and after the Zionists were disappointed [to discover] that the European Jews did not flock to Israel en masse after the end of World War II. [The Zionists] had hoped that these [Jews] would come due to the oppression and suffering inflicted upon them by the Nazis and fascists. "Having no other choice, the Zionist movement turned to the Jewish communities in Iraq, Yemen, North Africa, Egypt and Syria, urging them to emigrate, though these [communities] had no motivation to leave, for they all enjoyed high standards of living, as well as civil and political rights that the European Jews had not even dreamt of for centuries. In Iraq, for example, after the declaration of the constitution in 1908... the Jew Sassoon Eskell became the first minister of finance in 1921, and held this position for several consecutive terms. Article Two of Iraq's Founding Assembly Law, of 1922, stipulated that [five] members of the assembly must be Jews: two from Baghdad and one each from Mosul, Al-Basra and Kirkuk. Parliamentary Elections Law No. 11, from 1946, stipulated that the Jews would be represented [in parliament] by [six Jewish] MPs: three from Baghdad, two from Al-Basra, and one from Mosul, in addition to a [Jewish] representative in the Senate”....
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