inevitably sea levels will rise by at least one meter in this century. we're going to have some climate impacts maternal greater than we see over many planes really frightening because of bad luck. why are people more concerned. little yellow bird shorts may 31st on t.w. claiming. it's 2 in the morning edwin sugar 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 else happened to tell my son that he was born in finchley and this was where his eye surgery started. we have gotten possible off iraq and i will not let go. i don't want to buy a house north of baghdad it's so that he can say the iraqi jews still have a stake in their home. as long as a move like this is being taken as long as our house is being bought and use of iraq. 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 got no clothes then i think i'm a lucky god. i think. i 1st came across the jews of baghdad when i was asked to catalogue an archive. it belonged to the family of david dunn goal.

when david's father was born there were 140000 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. unfinished business here. i don't even know the dangers around that because when i tell people . on the road are you kidding are you crazy. phew. i feel i see if i'm going to baghdad for ever.

edwin was just being flowery. iraqi jews are the ones in the sun. 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 zion. they stayed and wrote a great book of jewish lore the babylonian talmud. they were below the muslims in society but they ran their own a says as babylon became mesopotamia and as mesopotamia became iraq. back in london. i went to meet david. they were on the banks of the tigris when iraq was ruled by the british. now we lean into religion flat one above the other. this is michael and. the chief of iraq. it was

hanging. back there. to show that life was good. in the. face. his speech was that. we don't have religion. it was a good time it was very it was. this paradise was created by the british who took 1917. this little boy being pulled along into a british time. david. on his father's farm near the town. with the world. by a. stick relation with their for.

you. to believe you they were very good brothers. brother. i mean they are the whole we were to their whole we were to just. speak english. they were the rulers. if you are in line with the british. that. the no 2 will iraqi jews were in line with the british i met saleem fertile in israel. and i and many others like me in the poor class thought the british you are robbing our resources are all you and do you are you are trying to tell us what to do

we don't want any foreigners here we want to rule ourselves by ourselves the law and the free you have nothing to go to go all. but when british rule ended in 1902 the oilman didn't go home. the n m i did king of this little known country it meets with directors of the air have to credit him company watch him out shakes give the authentic that touch. not to the pump station 4000000 tons of oil yeah it was independence. on thomas i would say. they're real officers while the government. the british. but the british were not the only ones are often iraqi oil. as disaffection with the british grew the germans promoted hitler as a liberator. and in 10331 camp was translated into arabic.

i met sure monash a he was a child in basra. there was a famous say. good in the sky it closer on the ground this year whether i missed out on a lovely summer or feel of a hit clubroom it sounds like a bomb. the nazis key arab supporter the grand mufti of jerusalem came to baghdad in 1039. the jews did not understand what happened in iraq. with the mufti and with the influence of the nicest during the 30 years they are in danger patrols are in danger. the move to moved into this

house on the banks of the tigris in baghdad next door to david's family the dangour as. in early 1941 the move to hitler. you're excellences great fear of. the palestinian problem has united all that up states and the mutual hatred of the english and the jews. that ups 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 $941.00 the region fled with the boy king leaving iraq to the fascists and its oil to the germans.

once again the british invaded. a few doubts about the threat came over a little bit of an off the on everyday existence out of fear of. every doubt that if they don't the rebels all of a load 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 restoration the truce. i may just bear on 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 and very badly they called him you know are jewish you are english and he was beaten and he was bleeding all over. that night

a riot started. in jerusalem i found a man who was in the center of baghdad the muslims evaded the jewish quarter we knew it this way or the other will will kill jews. all night we were up there on the roof frightened 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 know it to the neighbors he said please give us every few. neighbor called his god of

a solitude fool us to the other side. my uncle. who was a slaughter i think is part of the business both of them they live together they die together. share the class where they stop the process and talk which was outside and they killed our neighbors were muslims. and then my mother. and her neighbor we were very good friends. she's a breast fed me. and god bless her fairly i used game. came to our house through a strong one the big one. of their. own ship broke 50 that for 3 days. she saved our life.

after 941 with the money keep back in place iraq was a piece for the rest of the war. the movie fled and went to. the dang the house where he lived and the kids got to play in the most is god. the war hawk is touched on. there were 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 busy my father was very happy to to to stay on and back that. david should matias 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. the amount of wishful thinking that. the truth and nothing. but the less well off jews were why are. they so the right during the war as a warning. rally joined a secret cell. phone road. there's hours we continue. to hone. didn't begin to do but no more loyal to him last sort of call the house 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 that weren't able to tell a lot more shoe industry leaders. to give him course if you. are thomas casual how to. cook you must conclude that. you should rush how much of. the kenyan back to design is were essential to the jewish leader david ben-gurion. he was building his new country and he wanted a 1000000 immigrants to people it and to defend it. of 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 chosen language of the new state i didn't know all the people that came to study with me. we went far far away in the desert somewhere near or. near the river or somewhere very far nobody lives there nobody not a soul of the. first lady then the world that. we had the bacon eggs they were talking about this or it was like the end like either but all the movie that so everybody was interested to go. in a 948 palestine was partitioned to make way for the new jewish homeland israel. the

dream came to the designs. and a nightmare began for the jews still living in the arab world. from egypt from france jordan and from the north with support of other arab states palestine is invaded as the united nations looked for ways to stop the war. raging erupted out of palestine and ignited in the streets of tehran. the fierce the tough and when israel won the war the iraqi government of that time most severely against the jews over there were a very difficult situation until 950. jews were fired from government jobs and the people who today shops.

jews closed their businesses they do not bear to go through the streets. they hang good jewish people for desired museum and their land over to foregone the music. so everyone and the store is no way for us to live their. money open the door was. a deal funded by american scientists. with sweetness for the prime minister's family allowed for the jews to renounce their iraqi citizenship and leave. at 1st 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 they were not really dying. but then a series of bombs went off in jewish districts 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 70000 when the ridges in the synagogue so we were about 220000. the minute they close the list of all those wanted to go 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 1951 planes flew continuously from baghdad to tel aviv. until 120000 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 poles and front of you abusing bizarre but. it was. they conceived of the people who have no concept of how to be god does not exist the

our language is the language of the enemy and they'd be fine. black people. who are some of these people may have been well to do or even well think what you mean and you'll know where they are all headed. 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 1951 life for edwin's family under the money he was comfortable. to leave. along with 7000 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 side to city and the river. the area is controlled by a shia militia. the taxi driver snafus and of course her the more she. can possibly last so much. a love of her. father was shot early on with the upbeat. adda careful because it could be the police. that got them put them put them away or called. them adoption of other built. by the g. the b. of you know how that doesn't require. a lot of bit other bits you know. it well the whole group will go. oh my god. oh my god the solution. to the floyd way way way way.

that as we know. they've got it how do you how difficult we know what should. a college to be out of by sheer numbers. why do you always have enough of a mark on the book. well i would. like to. when i saw the house encourage. that you have to leave your old home. like a criminal. is difficult to put myself into the cauldron of boiling motions. on bijou who always names appear. as a kind of a feeling of belonging. just how the mother other than a minute but can admit engine machine. how that could be

a goof what i left out of on the other shot of him in him should be your most of it with his heart and of a heart and all of will of about that god but the courage to do we would use human who has not with you edwin is 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. may tweak is still standing. when saddam hussein needed to please the americans hearing street to be preserved. but it's too dangerous to choose to actually question. baghdad was the center of the jewish world for over 1500 years. they were at the color mood babylonian talmud.

says put so much into iraq. can't live. with the fact that my grandfather is very poor. and that we've abandoned him and we just say good bye bye. but now it's way. could everything. oh we don't grieve in the back. while the things others egyptian president is it makes a public appearance following season of the sun seen by the 1st one soon with took

place my father could see that it was a momentous thing happening in the middle east. it was the 1st time that nationalism asserted itself i remember he used to listen to news day and night he couldn't get away from it one minute. the women i mean probably david done good set leave my brother who were not happy. either could feel a kind of exile. behind the sort of facade of easygoing life. ready all 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 1st love. i thought. the radio came on announcing the army had taken over. 2 years after sue is in 1958 the monarchy in iraq was overthrown in a leftwing military coup. it had lasted 37 years. between the yes side just opposed it has led to and the republican rebels have offered 10000 pounds for his right. to the new wondering is it really women is doable. this is i do karim cos i'm 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 3 years old when the coup happened everybody rushed to the balcony to watch. the prime minister for russia and there is site they tied his body to a car and just the usual. river would pull his body through the streets of baghdad 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 2nd 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 1959 david's 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 wall. we'll put it down when we wrap it. and put it away in a store rule. $4000.00 jews stayed after the revolution . the 1st 6 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 a dealership selling fine t. american cars we have board about 70 or $80.00. when the revolution came in we thought nobody would dare to write in a big car you want to go in it's more otherwise there would kill you. you corrode believe me in 6 months the government the open embassies of the east russia embassy. china and these people they are starving for american cars. with going in the room with every car the streets. of a short space of revolution.

in 1063 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. that i live. in march to have a mosque 96 he said. everything changed in 67 when the 6 day war started. to remember coming home from school my mother picked us up. i think in her face. the traffic was stopped by police. convoy with lots of soldiers all do their guns. iran was one of 5

states fighting his trail in the 6 day war in june 1967. i remember my brother signal saying 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 knows well we're all going to us anyway. the israelis won. and the consequences were immediate for the 2000 jews still living in baghdad. people from the post office broke on the door opened the door myself of the house where the the colorful and so on and i just took them they pulled the cords from the wall and took all the instruments and they said i'm sorry but rules are rules jews are not allowed anymore the use of telephones. 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 $1969.00 the bath leadership laid on an event in response to the 6 day war and its aftermath. saddam hussein now deputy leader who's given the job of turning it into a national festival they rounded out a number of people mostly jews and they accused them of being spies for israel and for the west when they said spy the remember my dad's complection he. was suddenly said. that doesn't sound good he knew that there probably meant the jews.

show trial of the suspects was mounted in january. on the day of the trial i remember we were petrified all of us. suddenly we see them on television the doorbell rings and when the doorbell rings in the middle of the night even for me it was bad if look at the evening and for everybody the door and there's no reason for the doorbell to ring to let its trouble is sure enough it was my art saying. they've taken as well because. they had come to ask you to check. no matter what we try to or how we tried we could not find out where he was. for me it was like almost the end of the world. if you were to time when small. another one to jewish men furnished from their

family. then came use of 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 there will be. tomorrow morning. that was my turn 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. 7071 that you're at school was the year you're going to school every morning you count and you look around who is left in your classroom. 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 walky men and women in customs. plans were to go on holiday such to northern iraq it's beautiful it's lovely. and. once we're in the kurdish areas we're pretty much safe because they didn't have any animosity towards us. we knew that this was a proper way to escape. over $71.00 my father brought the family together and told us that.

in 2 hours we depart the house where ever. we had to go through checkpoints tried to be cool. pretending to you all day jolie and you looking at around that your sisters who are younger to a grandmother who was praying about lee. is it possible this soldier i would suspect he is. fatty. look like you know us jewish they look fried turkey. so when we crossed the border between iraq and kurdish iraq and the guy turned around and said you're ok no you've made it. it was just a choice amazing we knew that we we were free or just ecstatic.

leave. the jewish community was now down to a few 100. to back but his attention drifted elsewhere. 11 years after aliens passport had been taken away her application for a new one suddenly went through. its work clothes into. we had less suitcases with us where went to a friend's house and the next morning we'll length of the f. lots and lots. of. 18 or rived in london on the 18th of december 974 heaving 280 jews in baghdad.

once you leave the country and don't try to leave it 3 months and all your property is confiscated. and you to see a nice lady who is your nationality and also consider the offer and you'll. in 2003 iraq was once again invaded. and not doing american airlines wanted to be rid of saddam and say. i'm going to be to edwin in northern iraq he's buying his. bill the capital of the kurdish area. he wanted to join the last 5 to still living in baghdad but it's too dangerous that. we just got to say at the least safe islamic states frontline is just a short drive from that bill city center. surprised

by. all the rest of them. i bought this house is a step in my dream. to. ask . you know what maybe just maybe in 30405060 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 longed for but it does my body 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 a loss of my uncle. iraq still in all blood. in all.

it's like a distant bell ringing in the back of wired's always reminding us where we came from. i still miss but. i wouldn't let her go now because it's all in the belly it's the places i know. i'm not the same. it's it's big that to remember. everything as it is or as it was as it was sorry it. was dreamy.

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