Israel/History

https://twitter.com/HenMazzig/status/1729693884526031359

Israel was established in 1948. But Jews lived in the region for thousands of years.

Before Israel existed, here’s what Jews in the Middle East could NOT do:

1. Ride horses. 2. Be eye level with Muslims. 3. Had to pay tax not to be murdered and pillaged. 4. Could not testify against a Muslim in court. 5. Could not bear arms. 6. Could not move freely after certain hours. 7. Couldn’t dress without imposed Jewish symbols (like the yellow stars we saw in the Holocaust.)

In 1941, my grandma survived the Farhud. It was massacre against the Jewish community of Iraq, encouraged by the Nazis. Thousands of Jews were attacked by a mobs, which was backed by the Iraqi government.

My grandma had to flee Iraq - they even took her citizenship. So did with other 150,000 Jews.

Today there are no Jews in Iraq.

They were ethnically cleansed.

This didn’t just happen in Iraq. Jews were ethnically cleansed throughout the Middle East and North Africa.

Almost a million Jew ran for their lives. The only place to take them wasn’t America, or Britain— it was Israel.

Israel saved my Iraqi mother and my Tunisian father.

It will continue to save Jews from everywhere else.

Soviet support

• In February 1948, Czechoslovakia became a Communist country, blindly following the Soviet Union. Initially, Joseph Stalin supported the State of Israel, but when its pro-Soviet parties lost Israel’s first election to the Knesset in January 1949, he withdrew his support – and so did Czechoslovakia.