by Mohshin Habib
April 2, 2012 at 3:15 am

Source: www.gatestoneinstitute.org

Among the foreign friends whom Bangladesh awarded last week on the occasion of the 41^st anniversary of its independence, for their leading role in liberating it in 1971, was a Jew, an Indian top ranking military official, Lt. Gen (ret.) Jack Farj Rafael Jacob, whom Bangladesh considers one of the most important friends of the nation.

Jacob never asked for any award, and told reporters simply, “It is a great honor. I am honored.” The progressive and informed part of the country do not believe it would been possible to have achieved independence in nine months of a bloody war against Pakistan’s powerful military without his diligence. If Jacob had not there, history would have been different. Jacob is admired wholeheartedly.

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A Jew honored for the liberation of a Muslim Country!

“Jacob was born in 1923 in Kolkatta, India. His family had moved from Iraq to India in the middle of the 18^th century, when there was trend of Jewish families from what are now Iraq, Syria, Jordan to migrate to India, and why the Indian Jew community is known as Baghdadi Jews. Later, a large part of the Baghdadi Jews left for what is now Israel, a legitimate enclave for people who over the centuries had been dispersed from that land by force”