In May, 1948, after failed attempts to destroy Israel in its fight for independence, the Iraqi government, turned against its Jewish citizens whose ancestors had been there continuously for over 2,500 years. Arrests, torture, imprisonment and hanging of Jews sent fear in every Jewish person’s heart. It was the fear for my life that made me attempt to be smuggled out of Iraq in December, 1949. I was smuggled through Iran and found my freedom for the first time in Israel. In 1941 during the Farhud, there was nowhere to run to. Thank God Israel was there to take us. I started my life there, like many Jews from Muslim countries, as a dispossessed, homeless, penniless refugee. Read more: Open letter to the Presbyterian Church USA from an Iraqi Jew | Joe Samuels | Ops & Blogs | The Times of Israel blogs.timesofisrael/open-letter-to-the-presbyterian-church-from-an-iraqi-jew/#ixzz2x5vBypN6 Follow us: @timesofisrael on Twitter | timesofisrael on Facebook
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