"cruel Zionism"

from Peace News 23/6/67 In last week's Peace News Mrs. L. Zuntz reiterates th? Ssariens oleae of Zic ist propaganda stating, among other things the fo“ lowing: About y 600,000 Jews in Arab lands were expelled, They arrived destitute in Israel. Have you ever heard the Jews compleining about them or refusing to settle them or treating them as somethirg to bargain about?" Foes Mrs. Zuntz read Hebrew’? If so may I recommend that she read Israel's most popular weekly paper Haolem Hazeh (This World) of April 20, 1966, pp 12/13, and of June 1, 1966, pp 12/13. She will find there a fully documented report, with photographs, names, dates and eye witness reports, that has never been contested. Shortly after the state of Israel was founded, Zionist agents were sent to various countries in order to convince the local Jewish communities that their proper place was in the Jewish state, Tuey were active in Iraq early ir 1950 and found the Jewish commug@ty, numbering some 130,000, well integrated into the fabric of the Iraqi social and economic structure, and rather reluctant to emigrate. The Iraqi Jews had prospered in Iraq for many centuries and while sympathising with the creation of Israel had never aspired to emigrate to Israel. Faced with this reality, the Zionist agents employed somewhat unusual methods. They threw bombs into synagogues and Jewish meeting places thus creating panic among the Iraqi Jews who were led to believe that this was an outburst of anti-Jewish feeling among the local population, In little more than a year, after otier well-timed "outrages", most of the 130,000 emigrated to Israel. Tis all sounds unbelievable, like bad propaganda, but some of the bomb throwers were caught, tried, imprisoned, eventually released and heralded as heroes when they reached Israel. They never made their acts a secret; quite the contrary, they considered this as a necessary if extreme measure. In Israel this is known as "Cruel Zionism". This news may shock Mrs, Zuntz and perhaps even some other readers, but unfortunately the facts, names, dates, pictures are incontestable. Some of the Iraqi Jews now in Israel who were wounded in these bomb incidents sued the Israeli government for camages. Thus, from Mrs. Zuntz's claim that 600,009 Jews were "expelled" from Arab lands one must deduct at least 130,000 Iraqi Jews,