“….today, worshipers in the mosques and crowds in the streets are treated to a special Friday prayer. The muezzins call for a Holy War against bad Jews everywhere in the world, and urge the rulers and people of every country to chase them away and clean their soil of them. There is no doubt that ‘bad Jews’ could eventually mean all Jews, especially the nearest victims still living in Iraq….
“Whenever the country was in trouble, our community had to suffer in this manner, because the government could not grapple with the problems facing it. So it finds a scapegoat to busy the people with; to focus their attention on something else. And if arbitrary arrest meant only being in jail, it might be tolerable. But in abnormal circumstances it always meant torture also, and in some cases the victims were never seen again.”
From “All Waiting to be Hanged,” by Max Sawdayee, a former Iraqi Jew’s poignant diary. It’s pre-POD and therefore now out of print (one of the little-known drawbacks of “traditional” publishing), but excerpts are here.
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