Kurdistan seeks compensation for Iraqi Jews

Kurdistan’s newly-established Directorate for Jewish Affairs will seek compensation for Kurds and Jews from the Iraqi government, its head has declared. By so doing, the Kurdish autonomous region appears to be seeking to position itself as a pro-minority, pro-western bulwark against the Shi’i, pro-Iranian government in Baghdad.  Rachel Avraham reports for Jerusalem Online (with thanks: Stan):

The
Iraqi Kurdish government is seeking compensation from the Central Iraqi
Government for the crimes that they implemented against both the
Kurdish and Jewish peoples. The Kurdish Regional Government in
Northern Iraq has recently set up a Directorate of Jewish affairs, which
is seeking justice for all of the Iraqi Jews who experienced the ethnic
cleansing campaign orchestrated by the

Arab-run government in Iraq.

Head of the Directorate of Jewish Affairs in Iraqi Kurdistan Sherzad Omer Mamsan i Photo  Facebook)

While ISIS is implementing ethnic cleansing against non-Muslim and
non-Arab minority groups and the Shia-led government in Iraq persecutes
these same peoples, the Kurdish Regional Government in Northern Iraq has
just established a Directorate of Jewish Affairs that is led by Sherzad
Omer Mamsani, who is seeking justice for all of the Iraqi Jews who
experienced the ethnic cleansing campaign orchestrated by the Arab-run
government in Iraq: “The Iraqi government who colonized Kurdistan in the
time of Saddam Hussein’s rule forced out the Kurdish Jews and murdered
and bombed Muslims with chemical weapons.   It’s the KRG’s right to seek
all the losses from the Iraqi government” for the crimes that they
implemented against both the Kurdish and Jewish peoples.

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