THE JEWS OF IRAQ - TESTIMONY OF A FORMER ZIONIST

The following article, The Jews of Iraq, is the result of an interview conducted by The Link on March 16, 1998. The article was published in the [?] edition of The Link. The interviewee, Naeim Giladi, an Iraqi Jew and a former Zionist is the author of "Ben Gurion's Scandals: How the Haganah & the Mossad Eliminated Jews".

In his book, Ben Gurion's Scandals, Mr. Giladi discusses the crimes committed by Zionists in their frenzy to import raw Jewish labor. Newly-vacated farmlands had to be plowed to provide food for the immigrants and the military ranks had to be filled with conscripts to defend the illegitimately repossesed lands.

Mr. Giladi couldn't get his book published in Israel, and even in the U.S. he discovered that he could do so only by personally funding the project. The Giladis, now U.S. citizens, live in New York City. By choice, they no longer hold Israeli citizenship. ""I am Iraqi,"" he told The Link, "born in Iraq, my culture still Iraqi Arabic, my religion Jewish, my citizenship American."