The demise of Saddam Hussein's regime and the control it exerted over the media has unleashed an outburst of feelings of freedom reflected in a large number of dailies and weeklies which, for the first time in Iraq's modern history, are free, uncensored, and often highly imaginative. While some of the dailies are associated with the many burgeoning political parties and political movements which themselves are unprecedented in terms of their number and orientations, there are other dailies and weeklies which introduce themselves as politically independent. Unaccustomed to journalistic freedom, many publications are reined only by the limits of the imagination of their correspondents.
Some of the news and commentaries regarding Israel in general, and former Iraqi Jews in particular, are shaped by imagination gone wild. For the vast majority of Iraqis, however, this free press is a change for the better after almost thirty years of sycophantic deification of Saddam Hussein in government-controlled media. The Iraqis were told by Paul Bremer, the Civil Administrator of Iraq, that they can print anything as long as it doesn't incite violence. <1>
Much, but not all, of the material in this report is drawn from the daily dispatches from MEMRI'S Baghdad office which cover news and editorials from different Iraqi newspapers.
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Former Iraqi Jews
Approximately 150,000 Jews lived in Iraq through the first half of the 20th century. The creation of Israel in 1948 resulted in the promulgation of a number of pieces of legislation by the Iraqi parliament restricting the travel, employment, and commercial activities of the Jewish community, and provoked many of them to search for a safe haven.
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More than half a century after the immigration of Iraqi Jews, mainly to Israel, Arab studies continue to ignore the reasons that these people left what had been their homeland for almost 3,000 years. A recent study on the Jewish communities in the Arab world, published by the Jenin Center for Strategic Studies, attributes the break-up of the Arab Jewish communities to "the Zionist propaganda and its criminal practices… and not because of government or popular pressures." <2>
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http://www.memri.org/bin/latestnews.cgi?ID=IA14603And the war of historical accounts and denials continues rather than an integration of the two. unfortuately one account discounts the other. Or attempts to discredit it entirely.