Here we go again.
A group of Iraqi lawmakers are determined to press forward with their demands for reparations for a 1981 Israeli attack on an Iraqi nuclear reactor, Baghdad’s daily al-Sabbah reported Thursday.
Mohammed Naji Mohammed, a member of parliament with the United Iraqi Alliance coalition, is leading a campaign for a parliamentary resolution obliging the Iraqi foreign ministry and courts to seek billions of dollars in reparations for an Israeli air strike on the Osiraq nuclear reactor.
UN Security Council Resolution 487, passed in the wake of the attack, “strongly condemns” Israel’s air strike against Iraq’s Osiraq nuclear reactor in June 1981, and “considers that Iraq is entitled to appropriate redress for the destruction it has suffered, responsibility for which has been acknowledged by Israel.”
Not a problem. Just countersue for the Iraqi army’s invasion of Israel in 1948, plus its support of anti-Israel forces for sixty years, as well as reparations for the Iraqi Jews forced out of Iraq after the creation of Israel.
By my math, I expect the Iraqis will owe Israel billions.
At the same time we can also sue them for supporting palestinian terrorism and firing scud missiles into Israel in the first gulf war.
They are great playing the victim game, but the islamists are such hypocrites.
I saw this the other day on Mosaic. In between whining about Netanyahu, they had this story on.
I laughed my butt off. I figured it was just some tools but they claimed al Maliki
(He’s not in that article).
I’m pretty sure it was from PressTV (Iran’s spokestools) so I wasn’t really trusting the
accuracy, it’s funny to see it’s a real movement.
Previously: Egyptian scholar plans to sue Jews over exodus gold
Do you recall Gevihah be Pesisah? (I can’t believe that the Forward article cited by aunursa didn’t mention him!)
Sorry, Meryl, a countersuit over the Jews forced out of Iraq is a non-starter. First, as is well known, the Jews of Arab lands were happy until Zionist agitators riled them up, so it–as is true of everything–is Israel’s fault.
Second, as I have read more than one place, bringing up refugees from Arab countries is divisive. Israel long ago forfeited this issue. If it wanted to maintain it then Israel should have kept the Sephardim in refugee camps, prevented them from resettlement, fed them on hate for Arabs for sixty years, and recruited them for suicide missions to blow up as many Arab civilians as possible.
Israel should have also put Jewish creativity to work coming up with new and bizarre forms of savagery inflicted on Arabs all over the world. Since it didn’t do that it’s lost the right to make the Jewish refugees an issue.
By the way, and off topic, when Obama apologized to Iran for American misdeeds, real and fancied, how come he didn’t bring up Iran’s taking our diplomats hostage for over a year? This is something even the Axis powers didn’t think to do. Aren’t we owed an apology for that?