It was easy to allow the several hundred remaining Jews to worship. You're forgetting
that at least 125,000 were evicted and not allowed to take more than a few hundred dollars
of property. The Ba'ath Party finished the job with public hangings of Jewish leaders in
'69. Some estimates claim that 40% of the population of Baghdad was Jewish 100 years
ago.

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"Donal" wrote in message
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Iraq had been at war with Iran for many years. The two countries were still
mortal enemies because Iran was a Fundamentalist Muslim state while Iraq was
a secular state, where even Jews were free to practise their religion.