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US: Iraqi Jewish belongings go on display
Associated Press
Published: 31.10.13, 07:37
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1. Pristineness of Iraqi (Babyonian) Jews 2nd only to Teimanim
Paqid Yirmeyahu ,   www.netzarim.co.il   (10.31.13)
EXTREMELY urgent to preserve these artifacts
2. US seems determined to return texts to those who stole them
Raymond in DC ,   Washington, USA   (10.31.13)
Did the Allies after the war return treasures seized from Jews by the Nazis to Germany? None of these documents or artifacts rightfully belong to the Iraqi government. All were stolen from Iraq's Jews forced to flee Iraq. Most ended up in Israel, That's where these items belong. Iraq has no right to them, though they're welcome to view them... in Israel.
3. Muslims dont respect Jewish artifacts
Harry ,   Iraq   (10.31.13)
Muslims have no respect for Jewish history or artifacts. They urinated and desecrated every Jewish site in Israel. Iraq imprisoned my father. My uncle , my grandfather were beaten in prison. All the Jews of Iraq fled with their lives & now the Islamic State Dept wants to return our artifacts to these blood-thirsty murderers.
4. America has been hijacked
jay abouaf ,   jaffa israel   (10.31.13)
5. The Iraqi government are thieves.
Jake   (10.31.13)
These documents were stolen from the Jews by the Iraqi state, in addition to all their other looted possessions and properties when they were squeezed out of the country. Their bank accounts were frozen, their assets plundered, their schools closed down, their homes and properties and country clubs confiscated, not to mention the bombings and the incarcerations and executions on trumped-up charges. Now that these documents have been taken out of Iraq, they should be returned to the Jews themselves from whom they were stolen. Instead it looks like the US is about to become complicit in letting the Iraqi government have the last laugh.
6. Crime to return the trove
Abe ,   United States   (11.01.13)
Jewish art, belongingins, and other Judiaca items were stolen and confiscated by the Nazi regime in Europe. Is this any different? Since the end of WW2 there have been efforts to recover items wrongfully stolen by the nazi's and much has been recovered or compensated. My opinion that the "trove" now that it is safe keeping in the USA there is a moral obligation to return them to the rightful owners or be handed over to the state of Israel.
7. "70,000 Palestinian books were systematically "collected" by
Steve Benassi ,   Silver Bay, MN USA   (11.02.13)
...the newly born state of Israel during the 1948 war"
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