The Times of Israel:
……………… Let’s start with some facts. The worse betrayal of the Jews was by those who perpetrated the Holocaust. The concept of anti-Semitism, and the primitive racist theories that underpinned that concept, did not develop in the Arab world: it developed in Europe. Jews have suffered pogroms and discrimination, mass killings and humiliations by the millions— in Europe, not in the Arab world. Almost every country in Europe delivered Jews to the Nazis to be transported to concentration and death camps. Those Jews who could fled Europe; only a minority ever returned.
In contrast, when my parents left Iraq for Palestine in 1935, they did so not because life was bad in Iraq or they felt threatened in any way, but because my father was a Zionist. His parents and the rest of his extended family had a pleasant life in Iraq and were angry at him for leaving. Many family members whom I have asked about that time told me they had good memories; many said they still missed Iraq.
My family history is full of stories that illustrate their loyalty to that Arab county. ………………….
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