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| Hanging Gardens of Babylon (Land of Shinar or Kasdim (Chaldees) - One of 7 Wonders of the World |
Iraq was the major part of Mesopotamia. Who has not heard of Babylon? "
Mesopotamia is a name for the area of the Tigris–Euphrates river system, roughly corresponding to modern-day Iraq, Syria and Kuwait, including regions along the Turkish-Syrian and Iran–Iraq borders. The tigris-Euphrates Rives is where the Jews were said to have come from that entered Ur, a city in Western Mesopotamia that became Iraq. 
Today Iraq is becoming the major part of the bloodthirsty
Islamic State, so called ISIS or IS or in Arabic-Daesh. It had been part of the 400 year old Turk's Ottoman Empire that died with World War I in 1917.
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| ISIS: Arab and Foreigners killing Arabs of the Land |
Right now a terrific battle is going on as IS slaughters and beheads anyone in their way. The world leaders have stepped into this with the American Army having a base here that is an operational hub for the US led 66 nation coalition that is "combating" the Islamic State takeover in Iraq and Syria. They have entered with their medivac Blackhawk heliicopters along with Army Apache attack helicopters. They also have as their base their intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance aircraft. A variety of armed special operations aircraft from different military branches are here.
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Assyria attacked Israel in 721 BCE and took away 10 Tribes
Babylonia attacked in 597 BCE, then 586 BCE and took away Israelites
There was Israel and Syria, but none of the other states then. |
Why can't a coalition of 66 countries take back one city from ISIS, which is Mosul which lies in northern Iraq? And what happened to Israel which is erased from this map? It is hugging the Mediterranean Sea on the West of Jordan. Mosul has been occupied by ISIS since June 10, 2014. It is a city normally holding about 2 1/2 million people. This city, about 250 miles north of Baghdad, "
is completely ruled by the Islamic State terror group headquartered in Al-Raqqah, Syria. The current government of Iraq stopped paying salaries soon after the city was overrun by militants (that ISIL allegedly exploited by stealing a generous percentage) which it had previously paid to city workers, including nurses and doctors. The USA and their coalition personnel coordinate airstrikes against IS to support their Kurdish peshmerga forces. "Iraq's genocidal war against the Kurds began in the early 1960s and has continue to the present. The Iraqis have used bombs, napalm and even poison gas against Iraqi Kurdish positions and towns in the struggle to suppress Kurdish nationalism." They've behaved like Saddam Hussein of Syria towards his own people who went against him, an Alawite, a slightly different shade of Islam. In 1975, Iraq conducted a relocation of the Kurdish population. Hundreds of thousands of Kurds have been forcibly removed from their rural villages, and Kurdish political and cultural institutions have been savagely suppressed. Kurdish DNA is the closest to the Jewish people. "Where northern Iraq and Turkey are today, they shared a common ancestor. This was the northern half of the Fertile Crescent during pre-historic times.
Professor Ariella Oppenheim and
Dr. Marina Feirman, who carried out the research at the Hebrew University, said they were surprised to find
a closer genetic connection between the Jews and the populations of the fertile crescent than between the Jews and their Arab neighbors. Most likely, Kurds were descended from Israelites. Kurdistan was actually the core of the old Assyrian Empire, the one that carried off the Ten Lost Tribes.  |
| Kurdish Israeli, Shemun Levi |
A note on the Kurds, who are doing most of the face to face fighting in Iraq, is that they originally had their own
Kurdistan. The land is now divided up in Turkey, Iran and Iraq. The 1st Jewish settlement outside of Israel was in Kurdistan in the days of Ezra of the 5th century BCE. Kurdish Jews spoke with an Aramaic dialect up to modern times. It's close to the language used during the makings of the Babylonian Talmud. Nestorian Christians use this language, also. 12,00 to 18,000 Jews lived in this land by the end of the 19th century. After 1948, these Jews immigrated to Israel in or near Jerusalem. Kurds trace their ancestry back 4,000 years and became Muslims but maintain their own language, traditions and tribal leaders. They have over 15 million with about 3 million in Turkey, and more than 2.5 million in Iran and in Iraq and 500,000 in Syria. 180,000 Kurds have been slaughtered in an Iraqi government campaign against them in the late 1980s.
The Iraqi Defense Minister, Ali Hassan Majid was recorded describing how the Kurds would be dealt with: "We have gassed them not once; not twice, but until we get rid of them." By the end of April, the USA had conducted 9,073 airstrikes against IS in Iraq and Syria. Almost all their military aircraft were launched from bases and Navy vessels outside of Iraq and Syria. 50,000 US military personnel are deployed throughout the Middle East, including Navy personnel at sea. Yet IS seems to still hold onto Mosul. If they can rid the city and state of ISIS, al Jazeera points out that then the real challenge is "
finding a political settlement that allows the local Sunni inhabitants to address their legitimate political grievances with the central government in Baghdad." Religion is the problem between Sunni and Shi'a run government. Evidently it's no easy task to rid the city of ISIS from afar. "Mosul is Iraq's second-largest city, and urban warfare is no easy task as the recent operation to liberate Ramadi has shown. Ramadi has a population of around 200,000 compared with Mosul's estimated population of 1.8 million (albeit many of them left the city for safer refuge). Ramadi is still being cleared of booby traps and insurgents even though it was "liberated" months ago."  |
Terah, from the Tigris and Euphrates River Country in the East,
Father of Abraham |
This land is part of the Crossroads of Civilization. It was in the city of Ur that Abraham's father, Terah, came from the East and set up a shop making idols. This is why Abraham left, to escape the environment of people believing in such things..
The Muslim Arabs conquered Babylonia in 637, five years after Mohammad had died. The Jewish community who lived there helped the Arab conquerors in the hope that they would be better than the
Sassanid (Persian Empire) persecutions against them. After the Arabs occupied the land, Jews had been expelled from Saudi Arabia because they wouldn't convert to Islam, so they moved to Kufa
(Kufa is a city in Iraq, about 170 kilometres south of Baghdad, and 10 kilometres northeast of Najaf. It is located on the banks of the Euphrates River) and settled there," a place they may have originated from originally. Babylon and what was to become Iraq was the center of Jewish life. Jews from all over the world went here to settle questions they had about Judasim.
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| King Feisal of Iraq-1921-1933. |
Ibn and Emir Hussein Feisal (May 20, 1883 or 85--September 8, 1933)was the prince who had led the Arab uprising against Turkey from 1916 to 1918 and wanted to be compensated and rewarded for their part in the war effort.
He became king of Iraq from August 23, 1921, apppointed by the Allies who won the 1st World War. The Brits were holding a 30 year mandate over Palestine and the French had other parts of the Middle Eastern defunct Ottoman Empire they were cutting up.
Feisal was the eldest son of Hussein, sherif of Mecca, Saudi Arabia. He was a prince who wanted to be a king so needed a country. He was a leader and an educated man, a rarity in these parts, and was sympathetic to Zionism and the creation of a Jewish National Home. He admired the Jews to the point of hoping his own Arab people could learn something from them and hoped the Jews would help him build his future kingdom.
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| Weizmann and Feisal |
He met Dr. Chaim Weizmann in 1918 in Transjordan and again in Paris in 1919 where they agreed on mutual aid that was conditional on the implementation of British promises. to the Arabs. Feisal was first made King of Syria. That didn't work out, so they made him King of Iraq.
Feisal was later expelled from Syria by the French in 1920 and the influence of the Palestinian Arab leaders changed his attitude so that his ideas about Zionism turned hostile in the end.
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| Husseini and Hitler, quite a pair |
Iraq gained independence in 1932 so turned around and persecuted the Jews. Hundreds of Baghdad Jews were killed and wounded in a pogrom during the revolt of Rashid Ali in 1941, a time reflecting Haj Amin al-Husseini's visit to German Nazis to get help in ridding the world of Jews.
Today, Israel supports the Kurds in their struggle for independence and life. How do the Iraqis feel? "
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| Muqtadā al-Ṣadr is an Iraqi Shia cleric, politician and militia leader. He is the leader of a political party, the Sadrist Movement and the leader of Saraya al-Salam, a Shiite militia. |
Cleric Muqtada al-Sadr of Iraq describes American Sec. of State, John Kerry as a terrorist, asserts that Israel is spoiled son of America.
Resource: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Faisal_I_of_Iraq
The New Standard Jewish Encyclopedia
America's Quiet War in Iraq by Nolan Peterson (National Interest).
http://www.aljazeera.com/indepth/opinion/2016/05/liberating-mosul-solve-iraq-problems-160515065236609.html
http://www.iraqinews.com/baghdad-politics/sadr-describes-kerry-terrorist-asserts-israel-spoiled-son-america/
Myths and Facts by Mitchell G. Bard, Joel Himelfarb
http://www.haaretz.com/study-finds-close-genetic-connection-between-jews-kurds-1.75273http://www.algemeiner.com/2014/11/07/the-assyrians-kurds-and-the-jews/
Hamas is a designated terrorist organization by the United States and the European Union. It is an immediate, ongoing threat to Israel and its citizens. It would be lovely if a miracle happened after these 68 years and they decided not to follow their life time swearing of never making peace. Indications are that they are as adamant as ever in not pursuing such a peace. Even President Rivlin has said that now is not the time.
Why dig tunnels? Last year Israel prevented almost 1,000 Hamas smuggling operations to import weapons and other illicit materials into Gaza that could be used for bomb making. The contraband included rocket components, explosives, rocket fuel, drones and banned dual-use items.
Hamas's leader is Ismail Haniyeh. He would be the one Obama needs to convince that peace is important. Yet Haniyeh is busy praising the recent violent attack of his men against Israel by his terrorists from Judea and Samaria and east Jerusalem and called for another Intifada in Judea and Samaria. That's how he answered the EU and Obama's desires of being able to stage another peace initiative. With WAR! In this way he's telling Abbas that he cannot sit down to any peace talk as there will be no peace. 
Remember, Israel is and has been the only Democratic state in the Middle East. Israel's survival is important to the USA's national interests. The USA has been the only one to provide annual security assistance for its self-defense against mounting threats across the region. which now includes ISIS. There has been a 10 year Memorandum of Understanding between these 2 allies. They also have going between them other cooperative programs including a missile defense and tunnel detection. Israel is the creator of defense methods both in their own airport and in other ways that they share with other nations. Right now they might even help Turkey with airport defense due to Turkey's current attack there. One thing Israel can't do without are resources to buy weapons for protection so they can develop systems needed to respond decisively to threats from Hamas and Hezbollah and a potential nuclear armed Iran. 
Congress has been more understanding of this need than our President may have been. We must insure that this continues. Israel is the child of the USA who is about to receive their PhD in 6 months after 4 years of hard studying. We cannot stop our assistance now when Israel is so close to receiving its degree. One doesn't walk out on their children. The same with the state of Israel. The USA cannot come to a point of pulling out its much needed alliance with new senators who might not see the forest for the trees. Israel has been self reliant. She is not costing the USA with American lives, just money well spent. Of all the money spent in attacking, here is one place it's used in defense.
