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it's two in the morning edwin is getting ready to go to iraq. he's a jewish north london with a point to prove. who is going to even believe that there were jews in iraq. i can no longer carry on living as if nothing has happened to tell my son that he was born in finchley and this was where his as a surgery started. if you. will bottom boss of of iraq and i would love to let go.

edwin wants to buy a house north of baghdad it so that he can say the iraqi jews still have a stake in their homeland because the dollar is a move like this is being taken as long as our house is revolt and use of iraq if we are still there. and that gives me the sense of belonging. for decades baghdad has meant violence. and the last place most people would want to call home especially the jews. but it wasn't always soon. not diamond gotten over that line think i am a lucky guy i got

a son and family of mine. i first came across the jews of baghdad when i was asked to catalog an archive. it belonged to the family of david dunn goal. when david's father was born there were one hundred forty thousand jews in baghdad . they made up nearly half the city. few people in baghdad now remember them. through their houses and old synagogues are everywhere. edwin has arrived in baghdad looking for his roots. i feel. i haven't finished with this place. i always any always read. there's a unfinished business or. i don't even know. because when i go.

out on the road. crazy. phew. i feel. bad for ever. just being flowery. iraqi jews are the ones unsung. the ones who were captured and taken slaves. the ones who sat by the waters of babylon there we sat down and wept when we remembered sign. they stayed and wrote a great book of jewish law the babylonian talmud. they were below the muslims in society but they ran their own affairs as babylon became mesopotamia and as mesopotamia became iraq. back in london

i went to meet david uncles. they were born on the banks of the tigris when iraq was ruled by the british. now alina dorinda in flats one above the other if this is my father the chief of iraq. it was hanging in the. back there. to show the. life was good. this. in the. face. his speech was that. we don't have religion it's all iraqis jews and christians were all iraqis it was a good time it was very it was planted. this paradise was created by the british who took but one thousand nine hundred seventy.

this little boy being pulled along into a british time. constant david kalash. on his father's farm near the town of. changed with the world. by a father and stick relation with their. i made a very dear you. believe you they were like a brother but i say like a brother like a brother i mean they are there to do all we were to the whole we were just like part of one house and my father. can speak english. there were the rule of. if you are in line with the british the levee can be that the north two will iraqi jews were in line with the british i met salim fatah in israel. many others like me the poor class the british who

are robbing our resources. our or you and you you are trying to tell us what to do we don't want any foreign notes here we want to own ourselves by ourselves bill up and down for you you have nothing to go go. but when british rule ended in one thousand nine hundred two the oilman didn't go home. yet am i did king of this little known country meet with directors of the have to credit him company flash m.r. shakes give the authentic that touch. not to the pump station how many on top of the wire but yeah it was independents. on terms are worth. their reality lost. while the government. the british. but the

british were not the only ones after iraqi oil. as disaffection with the british grew the germans promoted hitler as a liberator. and in one thousand nine hundred eighty three one camp was translated into arabic. i met sure menasha a he was a child in basra. there was a famous say. good in the sky. on the ground miss year whether i missed out on a lovely summer or feel of a vehicle over. it sounds like the bomb. the nazi's key arab support the grand mufti of jerusalem came to baghdad in one thousand thirty nine. the jews did not understand what happened in iraq.

with the mufti and with the influence of the now as this during the thirty's they are in danger to us our intention. to move to moved into this house on the banks of the tigris in baghdad next door to david's family the dang gurus. in early one nine hundred forty one to move to hitler's. your excellences the great fear of. the palestinian problem has united all the arab states and the mutual hatred of the english and the jews. that abs are willing to shed their blood in the holy war and the oil flow for england. great futa

my wishes for a long life and chinese victory. the public mood in iraq turned against the monarchy and in much nine hundred forty one the region fled with the boy king leaving iraq to the fascists and its oil to the germans. once again the british invaded to. do nothing about the first came over a little bit of enough to make it a lot of beer on. every other but if it on the rebel all the followed over. the nationalist or defeated completely by the end of may. the half escalations who is the object that can be a victim for this if preservation to coos.

i meant just their own spend machine television. she was living in the suburbs and her family didn't realize anything was wrong my grandfather went shopping he was beaten very badly they called him you know our jewish you know our english and he was beaten and he was bleeding all over. that night a riot started. in jerusalem i found early a man who was in the center of baghdad the muslims evaded the jewish quarter we knew of this way or the other bill will kill jews. all night we were up there on the roof. right into the waiting for something bad to happen they were banging on doors and breaking people

shouting crying. we heard the crowd coming on the stairs my father out no cut to the neighbors he said please give us every few of. the neighbor called his god and they started to cross us to the other side. my uncle. who was a slaughter and his part of the business both of them they lived together the dike together. the class where they stopped the process and took which was outside and they killed our neighbors were muslims. and to my mother. and her only after we were very good friends. she's a breast fed me. and god bless her calea is when. came to our house through

a strong one the big one is just to do their. own cheap throw fifty thou for three days. to shift our life. in. after nine hundred forty one with the money to keep back in place iraq was a piece for the rest of the war. the most he fled and went to buy. the dang who was bought the house where he lived and the kids got to play in the most is god . the war hawk is touch them. they will parties every night the community was living in a bubble. they were not touched by the holocaust and they were living as if there was no war and nothing has happened much. so my father was very happy to

to to stay all and back. david should mashes david dunn gore's neighbor in london as he was in baghdad when they were children there's always hope that a bad episode was a one off and it won't repeat itself. with the amount of wishful thinking but. the truth and nothing. but the less well off jews. they saw the right during the war as a warning. really joined a secret cell. phone road. there's a. bikini to bits to hone color you didn't begin to

seriously do but no more lawyer. law sort of call could be the has all the iraq. said. today he teaches kids at the babylonian museum mentality. and he's bringing his replica guns to tell them about how scientists working for the creation of israel came to trade them in fact out why he didn't tell oklahoma shoe industry leaders. to give him kudos if you. are thomas kushal how to say. we must conclude. this is. your version how much of. the kenyan packed designers were essential to the jewish leader david ben-gurion.

he was building his new country and he wanted a million immigrants to people it and to defend it. at that time don't argue with me bring bring the jews here. because we don't want to happen tomorrow today i know you can bring them so it's bring the jews. around spend most shame decided to learn hebrew the choice nine which is the new state i don't know for the people that came to study with me. we went far far away in the desert somewhere we are. near the river or somewhere very far nobody lives there not a soul of the. first lady of the world that. we have picnics. they were talking about israel it was like the end like eden like all the

movie that so everybody was interested to go. in may nine hundred forty eight palestine was partitioned to make way for the new jewish homeland israel. the dream came true for the zionists. and the nightmare began for the jews still living in the ira. from egypt from trans-jordan and from the north with support of other arab states palestine is invaded as the united nations look for ways to stop the war. raging erupted out of palestine and ignited in the streets of iraq. the fierce the tough and when israel won the war the iraqi

government at the time mostly against the jews over there was a very difficult situation getting nine hundred fifty. jews were fired from government jobs and the people who today shops. jews closed their businesses they do not dare to go through the streets. they hang. jewish people for the zionism i midland there were two for communism. so everyone and the store but there was no way for us to leave their. money open the door was. a deal funded by american zionists with sweetness for the prime in a. his family allowed for the jews to renounce their iraqi citizenship and leave.

at first the take up was slow. some people didn't want to go they had their jobs and their money and their houses. my parents were not violent there were jews there. they have all the whatever it you use to do holidays and all and in the synagogue there were not really. but then a series of bombs went off in jewish district of baghdad although the government accused and then hind to zionists for doing it in order to drive in the creation. no one believed them now they were afraid or they are throwing bombs in the synagogue so we have to move so they went to register all of the seven thousand

when they were just there in the synagogue so we were about two hundred twenty thousand. the minute they close the list of all those wanted to go to jerusalem they confiscated all the money in the banks or what you had you can't sell anything you can sell your house you can sell not even a brand. and we left iraq with them pounds. throughout the summer of one nine hundred fifty one planes flew continuously from baghdad to tell of the. until one hundred twenty thousand iraqi jews were carried away. but the welcome wasn't what they were expecting. looking like creatures from the arabian nights it's a colorful sight but scarcely

a pretty one. a sort of weird costume ball on pulls in front of you musing bizarre but. it's what. they concede that people have no cause to be god does not exist the our language is the language of the enemy and they define. black people. move through or some of these people may have been well to do or even wealthy like me until now or they are all penniless. basically the message just came back guys don't rush for god's sake we rush to this place and we sitting in tents with a russian. in

one nine hundred fifty one life for edmonds family under the money he was comfortable. to leave. along with seven thousand when. they stayed on. and when his left the safety of the hotel to look for his childhood home now sandwiched between the notoriously violent such a city and the river. the area is controlled by a shia militia. the taxi driver is nervous difficult for the fortune. possibly the most selfish. a low. father was shot early on it will be. odd if it has a foot in the police. but i thought them couldn't cut them up we had called. them adoption of the i g g b of you know how that doesn't require.

a lot of bit other bit of the. it while the whole group will go. oh my god. oh my god the solution. to the floyd way way way way. that as we know paul they got to the how do you how difficult we know but should have. i got to be out of my shoes are numbered. why do you think you always open up with the mark on the boat. well i would. like to. when i saw the house. that you have to leave your old home. like a criminal. is difficult to put myself into the cauldron of boiling

motions. on the jew who always lived here. it's a kind of a feeling of belonging. to just other mother other than a minute but can any jewish. how'd of could be that a coup for the love of on the other shot of him in him should be your most of it with his heart and of the heart and all of the love about that guy but the courage to do we would use human who has. it when he's still in his old neighborhood trying to find his family's synagogue it's called me a twig. and it's now the only maintained synagogue in iraq. that it could look at that. may twenty eighth is still standing. when saddam hussein needed to please the

americans hearing straight to be peace after. it's too dangerous for jews to actually worship. baghdad was the center of the jewish world for over fifty hundred years. they were both in color mood babylonian talmud. says put so much into iraq. can't see if. we the fact that my grandpa is very dear. and that we've abandoned him and we just say good bye bye. good bye and that's where you. could everything. we don't know gave in the

back. while it was egyptian president nasi lemak sapulpa the following season was. seen by the first when suicide took place my father could see that it was a momentous thing happening in the middle east. it was the first time that nationalism asserted itself i remember he was to listen to news day and night. he couldn't get away from me one minute. the women i meet probably david. set the my mother who are not happy. you could feel a kind of anxiety behind the sort of facade of easygoing life.

our house was on the river front and the royal palace was on the other side we work up to the sound of gunfire. it must have been a. sort of first light. the radio came on announcing the army had taken over. two years after series in one nine hundred fifty eight the monarchy in iraq was overthrown in a leftwing military coup. it had lasted thirty seven year. veteran premier and reassign just opposed his plan to end the republican rebels

have offered ten thousand pounds for his right. to stand the new one doing a sit with women is doable. this is abdicating costs him he was the leader of the revolt the idea that the king should be replaced by a republic was something strange to us and quite bewildering in some ways even though we knew very little about politics we knew something cataclysmic was happening. i was three years old when the coup happened everybody rushed to the balcony to watch. the prime minister for russia and the reciting they tied his body to a car and just the usual. style of revenge would pull his body through the streets on. back dad i remember my mother my grandmother screaming as the as the body was passed through off. and me squeezing between them to see what what was the

commotion. king faisal the second in the royal family were gunned down. and the crown prince's mutilated body was displayed on the walls of the ministry of defense. in one nine hundred fifty nine david parents finally made the decision to leave iraq we came to england when we had finally got our entry permit. my father had hoped to make his life in the land his forefathers it was set. i never went back. after the revolution we had to bring it down we didn't want anybody to come and see we have the king and on the war. live with it down when we're at it. and put it away in a store rule. four thousand jews stayed after the revolution

. the first six months we thought we are going to be called when the east. now even want to learn about communism with us we're out of stuff we are going to be probably. the david calash had to dealership selling fancy american cars we have what about seventy or eighty dogs. when the revolution came in we thought nobody would dare to write in a big car you want to go in a small car otherwise there would kill you. you corrode really really in six months the government the open embassies of the east russia embassy because of. china and these people they are starving for american cars.

with porn industry with every car the streets of egypt because of the short. break ups. in one thousand sixty three with the tacit support of the cia kassam was killed in another coup by the baath party who included some old wartime fascists and a young officer saddam hussein. israel was back as an issue. and within weeks jewish passports were taken away. i was lucky i was reading. i live. in march two hours of march and id sixty seven. everything changed in

sixty seven when the six day war started. to remember coming home from school my mother picked us up. by look at her face. the traffic was stopped by police and army convoy with lots of soldiers holding their guns. iran was one of five states fighting his trail in the six day war in june one thousand nine hundred sixty seven. i remember my brother distinctly say you know this is very bad for us if israelis win then they're going to come back and take their revenge on us and israelis know as well we're all gone as the only way. the israelis won. and the consequences remediate for the two thousand jews still living in baghdad. people from being a post office docked on the door i opened the door myself of the house where the

the car phones on and i just took them they pulled the cords from the wall and took all the instruments on they said i'm sorry but rules are rules jews are not allowed anymore the use of the telephone. my mother was placed immediately on the house to house arrest luckily she knew with the chief inspector of police back that he protected her. there was a lot of help from our muslim friends. in early one nine hundred sixty nine the path leadership laid on an event in response to the six day war and its aftermath saddam hussein now deputy leader was given the job of turning it into a national festival they rounded up a number of people mostly jews and they accused them of being spies for israel and

for the west when they said spy that my my my dad's complection chair he. was suddenly said. that doesn't sound good. he knew that there probably been the jews. a show trial of the suspects was mounted in january. on the day of the trial i remember we were petrified all of us and suddenly we see them on television the doorbell rings and when the doorbell rings in the middle of the night even for be with barack look at the evening for everybody they do or do there's no reason for their doorbell to ring alleges trouble and sure enough it was my art saying. they've taken the world. has come to ask you to check. no matter what we try to how we try we could not find out where he was.

for me it was like almost the end of the world. if you time when small. another ninety jewish men furnished the nest family. then came uses danny's uncle. it was a notice like one of those adverts you sell at apartment on the same page size color. and his partner were found guilty yesterday of the spy and they will be. tomorrow morning. that was my turning point i guess. it was only one thought which is the same thing everybody had just one thought left let's get out. jews were not allowed to f.

possible so they couldn't leave the country. so there was no other option just. seventy seventy one that you're at school was the year you're going to school every morning you count and you look who's left in your class. my mother we had an idea that she was planning to run away. but not a tall adventurous person very insecure she tried to keep myself occupied. she was making goals a few walky men and women in customs. plans were to go on holiday such to northern iraq as beautiful is lovely.

once we're in the kurdish areas we're pretty much safe because they didn't have any in a must to do was us. we knew that this was a proper way to escape. over seventy one my father brought the family together and told us that. in two hours we depart the house where ever. we have to go through checkpoints tried to be cool. pretending to your all day. jolie and you're looking at around that your sisters or younger grandmother who was praying about it really. is it possible this soldier i would suspect for years. fathi. look like you know us jewish they look frightened.

so when we crossed the border between arab iraq and kurdish iraq and the guy turned around and said you're ok i know you've made it. but it was just it's was amazing we knew that we we were free and were just ecstatic. leave. the jewish community was now down to a few hundred. to back but his attention drifted down sway. eleven years after aliens passport had been taken away her application for a new one suddenly went through. this were close into. we had less it cases with us where winter or a friend's house and the next morning where length of the airport and left.

eighteen or rived in london on the eighteenth of december nine hundred seventy four leaving two hundred eighty jews in baghdad. once you leave the country and don't return within three months and all your property is confiscated. and you lose your less later was your nationality and let's consider the author of the little. in two thousand and three iraq was once again invaded. and not doing american airlines wanted to be rid of saddam hussein. i'm going to be to edwin in northern iraq he's buying his. doesn't have bill the

capital of the kurdish area. he wanted to join the last five to still living in baghdad but it's too dangerous that. we just got to stay at bayless safe islamic states frontline is just a short drive from met bill such a center. so there is no. problem with it. i bought this house is a step in my dream. to. ask . you know what maybe just maybe in thirty forty fifty sixty years time jews would

reconnect with their both place. it could die with me but if i don't see that my dream in my lifetime i can east i know i set it in motion. of course i know i'm going for a bit for the behavior there i longing for but it does my about it that. i knew all morning for that it is so natural. but you don't go there. i don't want to go back. there's a lot of people who left baghdad in the good times so they have a nice nest. subject your memory of it. i know that my memory is

just marred by the loss of my uncle. iraq is still in all blood. it's like and distant bell ringing in the back of a heads always reminding us where we came from. i still miss but. i wouldn't let the going out because it's all in the regions the places i know. i'm not the same. it's that sort of member. everything as it is grows as well as it was it if. i was dreaming that.

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in nine hundred sixty eight the crime echoed around the world. young people held against their parents' generation. it was a constant dust from the stupidity and fishing. demanded. that a home society. might maelstrom of conflict conflicts with the vietnam war playing the role of my generation watch the book war every day. our documentary takes a look while times how do those who were members of. the first time had a feeling of being part of something. means of those events today.

consumes the civil rights the peace movement the women's movement plan during this period. sixty eight. u.s. vice president mike pence and secretary of state mike pompei oh have good night being the anonymous author of an opinion piece that said an internal resistance is working to thwart parts of donald trump's agenda the president called the new york times article treason and the old gutless. britain has told the u.n. security council it has clear evidence moscow was behind the poisoning of a russian expiry in march it comes a day after the use.