In other words, you can't find anything in the article.
"Country", not "people" - short for the government of the time and its heirs, as the article explains in fuller detail than could fit in a short headline.
> Country represents it's nation and citizens, not the government
So most of this imaginary "Greater Israel" is composed of KSA? Good to know!
@Solomon2
Those artifacts belong to Iraq and the 3 other Arab countries mentioned (Yemen, Egypt and Libya). Those people were/are Arab Jews. Nothing to do with an artificially created 70 year old country.
When are you going to make a thread about the 100.000's (if not millions) of artifacts stolen from the Arab world that are drawing millions of visitors to the most prestigious museums on the planet from the US to Europe?
What are ancient Arabian, Mesopotamian, Levantine, Egyptian etc. artifacts doing in the West in 2018?
Saudi Arabia retrieves 52,000 historical artefacts since 2011
ARAB NEWS | Published — Sunday 22 October 2017
JEDDAH: The Saudi Commission for Tourism and National Heritage (SCTH) announced that it has successfully retrieved more than 52,000 artefacts from inside and outside the country as part of the National Project for Digital Recording of Antiquities, which follows international standards for archaeological recording and archiving.
The project aims to document and store all historic sites, artefacts, historical monument and urban heritage buildings in a comprehensive national digital registry linked to a multi-dimensional digital map, which is compatible with modern GIS technologies and digital databases, maps, images and graphics.
Director-General of Archiving and Protecting Antiquities at the SCTH, Naif Al-Qannour, said: “The new digital recording project stores detailed information and reports about 32,000 artefacts retrieved from outside the Kingdom and 20,000 returned by citizens to the SCTH since Prince Sultan bin Salman, president of SCTH, launched the campaign to retrieve national artefacts in 2011.”
“Some artefacts found their way outside Saudi Arabia through foreign travelers who moved them to other countries.” Al-Qannour continued, “One of the most famous artefacts is the Tayma Stone, which was discovered by Charles Huber and later on displayed at the Louvre Museum in Paris.”
He also explained that many employees of foreign companies, especially those who work in the oil industry, visited many parts of Saudi Arabia to study their geology and natural manifestations, collected the artefacts they found and took them to national museums at their home countries.
“Robbers of archaeological sites sometimes dig for archaeological treasures and achieve fast financial gains,” Al-Qannour said, “By doing so, they are destroying important archaeological evidence found in these sites, be it on land or in the sea.”
Al-Qannour stated that the SCTH will continue to work on retrieving and protecting artefacts and has released a red list of artefacts stolen from their sites inside Saudi Arabia and information about them in order to make them easier to identify. The SCTH has also announced handing financial rewards to those who return artefacts or report their loss or theft.
In 2011, Prince Sultan launched a campaign for retrieving national artefacts, including media and cultural programs and initiatives that aim to enlighten and inform citizens about the value of artefacts and the importance of returning them to the SCTH.
Recently, the SCTH released a list of 140 names of citizens who returned artefacts, reported archaeological sites or cooperated with the SCTH in protecting the country’s cultural heritage between 2013 and 2017 in order to honor them during the First Antiquities Forum, which will be launched under the patronage of King Salman, on Nov. 7 at the National Museum in Riyadh.
http://www.arabnews.com/node/1181431/saudi-arabia
Tell me again about the non-Jewish heritage that Israel stores and have taken from the Palestinians after expelling them?
You pathetic hasbara. Doing nothing but obsessing about Arabs as the usual trolls do on PDF. You have that in common. The butthurt must be gigantic.
i must agree with you. iraqi pepole are good and not responsible for some actions agianst their jewish population.
Thank you sir, this is the perspective that will unite all earth. At the end we are all homo sapiens, and racism/sexism/religious discrimination are our common enemy. Personally i don't believe in Arab race/Jewish race/Turkish race, i believe in homo sapiens. There are bad people in all communities, also good people in all communities. I wish to see very good relationship between Israel, Iraq, Turkey and Iran.
Do not give holy Jewish artifacts to a country that expelled its Jews
MARCH 6, 2018, 3:24 PM
Imagine being forced to leave your home, leaving all your belongings, your history, and your heritage behind. Now, imagine that they were rediscovered and brought to safe-keeping — just to be stolen from you again.
That is the fate of the Iraqi Jewish community.
In May 2003, over 2,700 Jewish books and tens of thousands of documents, records, and religious artifacts were discovered by a US army team when in the basement of the Iraqi intelligence headquarters flooded. This written record provides a robust understanding of the 2,600-year-old Iraqi Jewish community: the texts were sent to the US to be preserved, cataloged, and digitized, and they have been on exhibit in a number of cities for several years. Now, based on an executive order signed by President Bush in 2003, and extended by the US government in an executive order signed by President Obama, the Iraqi Jewish archive is set to be returned to Iraq in September 2018.
On a parallel track, but unknown to the Iraqi Jewish community, the Emergency Protection for Iraqi Cultural Antiquities Act of 2004 was amended in 2008 to include import restrictions on Jewish artifacts, including Torah scrolls, made on or before 1990. Then, the State Department put together separate Memorandums of Understanding, where the Jewish religious and cultural artifacts from Egypt, Syria, and Libya would be returned to the governments that had ethnically cleansed their Jews out of existence. Yet the Emergency Protection Act and the Memorandums of Understanding stipulate that religious or cultural artifacts need to be returned to their country of origin (limited, in the case of Iraq, to those artifacts made before 1990). It is like saying Jewish property that was looted during World War II and found in the US must be sent back to Germany. It allows these Jewish artifacts and documents to get into the wrong hands, hands of people who never owned them, and might not protect them from destruction.
The key point to remember here is that these artifacts — religious and cultural artifacts that are sacred to my community — never belonged to Iraq in the first place. The items are expropriated property stolen under the color of law that either belonged to private citizens or to the Iraqi Jewish community. It is critical to note that there is no longer a Jewish community in Iraq.
It is not just about the Iraqi Jewish archive though. They are part of a larger issue impacting Jews and Christians that needs to be solved. The Emergency Protection Act and the Memorandums of Understanding result in unfair consequences, and they do not take into account the circumstances at hand. The issue of potential return of stolen Jewish property to countries such as Iraq, Syria, Egypt, and Libya that ethnically cleansed the Jews is growing as red lists are published at US Customs, and countries such as Yemen may be added to those countries covered by Memorandums of Understanding. Suffice to say that the Emergency Protection Act and Memorandums of Understanding are not understanding or protecting at all of Jewish and other minorities’ artifacts.
Indeed, the Jewish populations of those Middle Eastern countries are now minuscule after years of violent persecution leading to ethnic cleansing. Of the million Jews living in Arab countries in 1948, fewer than 4,000 Jews remain. In Iraq in particular, the count is just five Jews.
Yet, the United States government, using the Emergency Protection Act and Memorandums of Understanding has placed import restrictions on cultural artifacts produced by Jews, Coptic Christians and other minority peoples, on behalf of Egypt, Syria, Libya and Iraq. Further, the United States government has promised to return the Iraqi Jewish archive to Iraq’s sectarian government in September 2018, including the notes of the Ben Ish Hai, a 19th century scholar, and a 16th century Jewish book seized by Saddam Hussein’s secret police, .
To provide some background: when Jews were expelled from Iraq, they were not permitted to take religious and cultural artifacts, like Torah scrolls and holy books, with them. Under Iraqi law, Jews could only take one suitcase with three summer outfits, three winter outfits, one pair of shoes, one blanket, underwear, socks and sheets, one wedding ring, one watch, one thin bracelet, and no more than 50 dinars. No prayer books, photographs, Torah scrolls, menorahs, kiddish cups and other heirlooms were allowed to leave. Even women and children were searched on leaving. In short, there was no way to take out any sacred Jewish artifacts — artifacts that mean the world to our community and are the only pieces of our past we have to show our future generations.
In fact, much of the Iraqi Jewish archive is from my grandfather’s school, the Frank Iny School. The Frank Iny School was always privately owned until it was expropriated by the Iraqi government in the early 1970s.
Thus, private as well as communal property will be returned to the country that persecuted and ethnically cleansed the Jews who lived in Iraq for more than 2,600 years, since time of the destruction of the First Temple in Jerusalem. This is a tragic situation for Iraqi Jews who have already been persecuted enough.
The community is organizing a petition to prevent the Jewish archive from being returned to Iraq, and asking people to sign it.
Carole Basri is an adjunct professor at Fordham University Law School, a visiting professor at Peking University School of Transnational Law, and a visiting professor at Pericles Law School. Carole, who is an American of Iraqi Jewish decent, has served as a member of the US State Department’s Future of Iraq Project and on the Coalition Provisional Authority working with the Iraqi Reconstruction Development Council (IRDC). She worked extensively on doing business in anti-corruption and transparency issues in Iraq, helping draft legislation and meeting with representatives from all Iraqi ministries in Iraq. Carole has published on human rights violations of Jewish refugees from Arab countries, and served as film director for several documentaries on Jews from Iraq, including “The Last Jews Of Baghdad: End of an Exile, Beginning of a Journey” (2005), and "The Life of Frank Iny" (1995) which appeared on PBS and in film festivals in New York.
Iraqi government did oppress jews but the riots and pogroms against jews were done was some iraqi barbarian citizens
A minority of troublemakers is what it is. The Arab Jews were not faultless. Many became a fifth column. Granted, mistakes were made but the catalyst was the ongoing mass-migrations to Palestine and in that time period (parts of the Arab world being colonized) and thus growing Arab nationalism, resulted in those few riots.
Jews lived in Arab lands for 3000 years (since they were first recorded in history). From Morocco to Yemen. They lived better in the Arab world throughout that time period than anywhere else. Jewish culture flourished. It were Arab Muslims that liberated Jerusalem/Al-Quds from Roman occupation and allowed Jews to return to their city 1400 years ago as well. Jewish pogroms and Arabs? Can be counted on 1 hand unlike what their main allies (West) did.
Nowadays you hear more about the likes of Al-Husseini (almost) than the likes of Hitler. Radical Zionists are trying to change history by somehow making it appear that the supposed Holocaust was an Arab work behind the scenes.
BTW those artifacts belong to Iraq, Yemen, Egypt and Libya. It does not belong to a 70 year old state established by force on the native land of Palestinians.
Using that logic, KSA has a much greater claim to all Islamic artifacts worldwide. Can you just for a second imagine the moronic logic, if you argued like that?
You lose your rights if you migrate from your ancestral homelands in return to populate the native lands of others illegally. Especially if you are a fifth column.
BTW, this article is most likely nonsense seeing that many Arab Jews entered Israel with all their belongings. I would not be surprised if this "story" was altered with. @Solomon2 usually likes to post such propaganda pieces to suit his agenda.
You need some help. Yes, expect for 2/3's of all Israeli Jews being Arabs Jews fully or partially. Whatever.
