they got on these plans and it was a bogus airline that is actually run by allah mussad, the figure io ran alaska airlines, but it was basically an israeli opion to evacuate the largest in the middle east to israel just after its founding. >> host: why? >> guest: this is one of the tragedies and one of the things i think that moved me about this book. iraq was a place that for a long time jews did very well, even in the 1940's and that jews in the iraqi parliament, you have a jew in the iraqi parliament, the high court of appeals. andhen all of a sudden everything sort of fal apa. if you want to look for a turning point is the founding of the state of israel. iraq is one of the arab countries that goes to war aer israel declares independence. and once i iraqis start coming home in boxes, jews and muslims who lived together as neighbors and friends and business partners of tho years just can't look at each other quite the same way so a place that had been hospitable to jews for arly 3,000 years in fact, babylon is where was written promise of a great book of jewish law becomes please j