tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36279451.post5730580784761586021..comments2023-10-25T08:34:59.128-07:00Comments on Iraqi <i>American</i> Mojo: Speaking Frankly About Israel and PalestineIraqi Mojohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14348791832474839472noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36279451.post-34834156061857953992012-10-10T13:46:17.603-07:002012-10-10T13:46:17.603-07:00Saying Ba'athist were inspired by Nazis is a f...Saying Ba'athist were inspired by Nazis is a facile argument to be employed, especially when there are better points to be made.<br /><br />Iranians I've known, for example, wanted the Shah gone but now understand the necessity of his tactics in containing the clerics. His problem was that he hadn't gone far enough in doing so, and for an Iranian to have that opinion does NOT mean for one second that they necessarily liked the Shah. <br /><br />No, what most Iranians wanted was Mossadegh to have remained in power and I have a feeling that he would've been somewhat similar to the Ba'ath party. It's not an Arab thing, it's a third world thing, a poor person's thing, to want one's country to be prosperous, even at the expense of political freedom. Many Iranians today also admire the Nazis. <br /><br />Ask any Bosniak or Serb about Tito, who in many ways was like Saddam Hussein, today and you might get a similar response. Patrickhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14883447432785092252noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36279451.post-11646619263905795192009-12-21T15:21:15.643-08:002009-12-21T15:21:15.643-08:00Also read Baathists Inspired by NazisAlso read <a href="http://iraqimojo.blogspot.com/2009/11/baathists-inspired-by-nazis.html" rel="nofollow">Baathists Inspired by Nazis</a>Iraqi Mojohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14348791832474839472noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36279451.post-90431471503961588492009-12-21T15:06:34.154-08:002009-12-21T15:06:34.154-08:00Shame on me for expelling Iraq's Jews? Shame ...Shame on me for expelling Iraq's Jews? Shame on the Iraqis who expelled Jews, you mean, and I agree. But I was born in the late 60s, long after the Farhood al Yahood. <br /><br />The Arabs wanted to keep Palestine whole and they resisted splitting it up in 1948. But Israel won and Palestine lost. Palestinians continue to lose, it seems. <br /><br />Do you not agree that Israel has treated the Palestinians badly? Israel has taken over most of Palestine, has occupied the West Bank and Gaza (the remainder of Palestine) since 1967 and has stolen their water and continued to demolish thousands of Palestinian homes, but shame on me for not preventing the Farhood al Yahood? LOL<br /><br />I'll just quote Alaa: <br /><br /><i>the old generation, now almost disappeared, remember the <a href="http://www.haloscan.com/comments/antamo2004/2218091443231665289/#734098" rel="nofollow">Jewish</a> community of Iraq with nostalgia. It was an honorable, inteligent and honored community, "the creme of Iraqi society", in the words of King Faisal I who was throned in a Jewish center or something like this if I remember correctly. But his speach praising the Iraqi Jewish community is certain, you can check it out in references. The first Iraqi cabinet after independence from the brief British occupation after WW II had two Jewish ministers, the most notable of them was Sasoon, the minister of finance who basically laid the foundation of financial management in the Iraqi state. The best doctors, professionals of all kinds were Jewish. It is within my own personal living memory of very early childhood and I remeber some very touching stories that I might tell you one day. Besides all this the original Hebrew tribe was of Mesopotamian origin, I am convinced of it. Biblically, Abraham was from Ur, in Iraq today, most of the ancient Jewish & hence are also recognised by Islam were Mesopotamian and buried in Mesopotamia. This is a hugely interesting subject and there is no scope to deal with it here. What I mean, is that despite the bigots and the stupidity of the common ignorant people, the Jews are much closer to the Iraqi people, than any others.<br /><br />Nevertheless, we as a people are more decent than the Palestinians and recognize their plight. I am personally convinced that the solution lies in the hands of the Jews rather than the Palestinians or the Arabs in general. But this is another subject that I might discuss in a special post.</i><br /><br />Also read my post <a href="http://iraqimojo.blogspot.com/2007/05/iraqi-jews_08.html" rel="nofollow">Iraqi Jews</a>.Iraqi Mojohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14348791832474839472noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36279451.post-4059164690696253252009-12-20T23:12:33.444-08:002009-12-20T23:12:33.444-08:00Mr. Mojo, how much true debate is there on the Isr...Mr. Mojo, how much true debate is there on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict in the Arab world? Has an Arab ever been born who does not see Israel as being evil, and carrying all responsibility for the situation? Has a single Arab publishing house printed a book critical of the Arab approach to Israel - six decades of blockade, sanctions, terror and war? Has a single Arab intellectual suggested that targeting the Jewish nation for extermination in 1948 was perhaps not the most human idea? Can a single Jordanian or Egyptian keep their job (or their lives?) after advocating for true peace with Israel, despite a 40 year old treaty?<br /><br />There are two lobbies in Washington D.C. One is the Israel lobby, whose AIPAC branch consists of 5 full time lobbyists, a budget of a few million dollars (under $15mil), a support staff of a few dozen people, and a support base of maybe 100,000 Americans, at the extreme.<br /><br />The other is the Arab lobby, with access to 57 Islamic nations representing 50% of global oil output - with an annual dollar equivalent in the trillions - if not more. We seem to know so much about the Israel lobby, but who is this Arab lobby? How much money do Arabs funnel into campaign contributions of American officials? How many US treasury bills are purchased in return for US favors?<br /><br />So please, spare us the peanut farmer's nonsense. Shame, shame on the Arabs for how they have treated the Jews these 60 years. 99% of Arabs have never met a single Jew, yet they hate them like no one and nothing else in the world. They invent lies about them. They are not real Jews. That is not the real Torah. This is the love of the prophet?<br /><br />A small nation that was spit on for centuries disgraced the entire Arab world, not even by their victories, but merely by their survival. Look what they have done to the wasteland that was Palestine, without oil, with their own hands, fighting back war after war and thriving.<br /><br />Shame on you, as an Iraqi. 100 years ago a third of Baghdad was Jewish. You threw them out like dogs, with the shirts on their back, and now you dare to speak to them about how they treat others? Do they fight wars like Arabs, slaughtering the men and raping the women? Shame on the Arabs.<br /><br />The Land of Israel is Jewish land. The Arab has no place there, except as a visitor or protected resident, period.Avigdorhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05008730229882004376noreply@blogger.com