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ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 650

Saddam Hussein

A member of the Kurdistan Center for Arts and Culture (KCAC) scans the pages of an old book as part of an effort to digitize historic Kurdish volumes and manuscripts, in the northern Iraqi city of Dohuk on February 13, 2024. (Safin HAMID / AFP)
March 10, 2024, 9:32 am
‘Sacred job’: Iraqi Kurds digitize aging manuscripts to save vulnerable culture
Archival crew pursues rare documents that offer insight into nation’s history, carefully scans them for website set to launch in April
By AFP
Iraqis attend the conference of peace and reclamation organised by US think-tank Center for Peace Communications (CPC) in Arbil, the capital of northern Iraq's Kurdistan autonomous region, on September 24, 2021 (Safin HAMED / AFP)
September 25, 2021, 12:23 pm
Hundreds of Iraqi notables call to join Abraham Accords, make peace with Israel
At Erbil conference, participants also urge rebuilding ties with the country’s dispossessed Jewish diaspora; normalization remains a crime under Iraqi law
By Aaron Boxerman and Lazar Berman
The cover page of an Israeli Foreign Ministry Facebook page, 'Israel in Iraqi dialect,' launched in May 2018 (screen shot: Facebook)
September 24, 2021, 10:09 pm
Over 300 prominent Iraqis publicly call for full peace with Israel
Unprecedented event in Erbil features Sunni and Shiite leaders and activists demanding that Baghdad join Abraham Accords; Lapid: Event in Iraq is a ‘source of hope and optimism’
By Lazar Berman and Aaron Boxerman
Farzad Bazoft in his televised 1989 'confession' for spying (Youtube screenshot)
August 15, 2021, 9:39 am
Mom of Iraqi reporter killed in 1990 as Israeli spy says he was lured into trap
Mother of journalist Farzad Bazoft says documents relating to UK connections to so-called supergun were stolen from him days before he traveled to Baghdad
By ToI Staff
In this Wednesday, Sept. 14, 1976 file photo, Ramsey Clark, Democratic candidate for the U.S. Senate, center, speaks at Lincoln Center in New York. Ramsey Clark, the attorney general in the Johnson administration who became an outspoken activist for unpopular causes and a harsh critic of U.S. policy, has died, Friday, April 9, 2021. He was 93. (AP Photo/Dave Pickoff, File)
April 11, 2021, 5:01 am
Ramsey Clark, US ex-attorney general and Saddam Hussein’s lawyer, dies at 93
An advocate for Soviet and Syrian Jews, antiwar activist outraged many Jews over other clients, including Nazi prison camp guard, PLO
By AP
Ceen Gabbai was born and raised as a Jew in Iraq, and received asylum in the United States in 2015. She now lives in Brooklyn. (Courtesy of Gabbai)
October 4, 2019, 1:57 am
What it was like growing up as a hidden Jew in Saddam Hussein’s Iraq
Ceen Gabbai survived 2003 invasion, received asylum in US; in home country, family had to move 5 times due to anti-Semitism, but her Muslim friends secretly recorded ‘Hatikvah’
By Ben Sales
The cover page of an Israeli Foreign Ministry Facebook page, 'Israel in Iraqi dialect,' launched in May 2018 (screen shot: Facebook)
January 6, 2019, 9:47 pm
Three Iraqi delegations said to make unprecedented Israel visits, meet officials
TV report says secret taboo-busting trips arranged with goal of building basis for future ties; delegates tour Yad Vashem, meet academics, discuss Iraqi Jewish heritage
By ToI Staff
President George H.W. Bush speaking in 1993. (Jewish Chronicle/Heritage Images/Getty Images via JTA)
December 1, 2018, 9:12 am
Bush, a president who grappled with Jewish leaders, engineered rescue of Jews
The 41st president, who died Friday, had an often contentious relationship with the community and Israel, but his legacy has come to be viewed far more kindly
By Ron Kampeas
In this May 11, 2008, photo, former US president George H.W. Bush arrives on the South Lawn of the White House in Washington (AP Photo/Lawrence Jackson, File)
December 1, 2018, 8:12 am
Former US president George H.W. Bush dies at age 94
Youngest pilot in the Navy, his stellar political career saw him preside during collapse of Soviet Union and final months of Cold War; term marked by tensions with Shamir, US Jews
By AP and JTA
Members of Iran's Revolutionary Guard Corps are seen at an annual military parade in front of the mausoleum of the late Ayatollah Khomeini just outside Tehran on September 22, 2014. (AP/Ebrahim Noroozi/File)
May 23, 2018, 9:33 pm
Iran: If US attacks, its leaders will face same fate as Saddam
‘There is no doubt that the Americans will be defeated,’ says supreme leader Khamenei
By Stuart Winer and ToI Staff
Chief of Staff of Iran's Armed Forces General Mohammad Hossein Bagheri delivers a speech during a military parade marking the 36th anniversary of Iraq's 1980 invasion of Iran, in front of the shrine of late revolutionary founder Ayatollah Khomeini, just outside Tehran, Iran, on September 21, 2016. (AP Photo/Ebrahim Noroozi)
May 23, 2018, 12:09 pm
Tehran rejects Pompeo demands, vows to push ahead with weapons development
Iran’s military chief says US is imposing sanctions because it is afraid to face Iran in battle, accuses Washington of acting for Israeli interests
By Michael Bachner
The Wadi al-Salam, or "Valley of Peace" cemetery which contains the graves of victims of violence of Iraq’s contemporary history, from the ruinous 1980-88 war with Iran to the costly 1990-91 conflict over Kuwait and 13 years of uninterrupted bloodshed starting with the U.S. led invasion in 2003. (AP Photo)
April 30, 2018, 6:08 am
Iran said to destroy mass graves of those executed in 1988
Authorities said to be targeting burial sites of up to 5,000 people killed in purge at end of bloody war with Iraq
By Jon Gambrell
In this picture taken on September 13, 2017, activists of the International campaign to abolish Nuclear Weapons (ICAN) wear masks of US President Donald Trump (R) and North Korea's leader Kim Jong Un as they demonstrate in front of the US embassy in Berlin. (AFP/dpa/Britta Pedersen)
March 8, 2018, 12:30 pm
For Pyongyang, Mideast offers cautionary nuclear tale
Holding nuclear, chemical weapons gives leaders leverage, while giving them up can end pariah status, bring economic benefits
By AP
Centuries-old books and documents from the Iraqi Jewish archive await preservation. (photo credit: Courtesy The National Archives)
December 13, 2017, 4:03 pm
Now-dispersed Iraqi Jewish community fights for access to its legacy
With a stolen trove of historical documents slated for return to Baghdad, Jews from Iraq demand their personal effects back — with many of their Muslim former neighbors’ support
By Reut R. Cohen
Stephen M. Flatow
November 6, 2017, 3:40 pm
Stephen M. Flatow
A slap in America’s face
There’s a new statue honoring Saddam Hussein in the Palestinian Authority city of Qalqilya
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