{"id":8992,"date":"2009-02-06T05:56:27","date_gmt":"2009-02-06T02:56:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.turkishforum.com.tr\/en\/content\/?p=8992"},"modified":"2014-01-01T20:30:10","modified_gmt":"2014-01-01T18:30:10","slug":"israel-hopes-to-colonize-parts-of-iraq-as-greater-israel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/2009\/02\/06\/israel-hopes-to-colonize-parts-of-iraq-as-greater-israel\/","title":{"rendered":"Greater Israel"},"content":{"rendered":"

By Wayne Madsen
\n<\/span>Online Journal Contributing Writer<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Jan 30, 2009, 00:20<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

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WMR)<\/span> — Israeli expansionists, their intentions to take full control of the West Bank and the Gaza Strip and permanently keep the Golan Heights of Syria and expand into southern Lebanon already well known, also have their eyes on parts of Iraq considered part of a biblical \u201cGreater Israel.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n

Israel reportedly has plans to relocate thousands of Kurdish Jews from Israel, including expatriates from Kurdish Iran, to the Iraqi cities of Mosul <\/span>and Nineveh<\/span> under the guise of religious pilgrimages to ancient Jewish religious shrines. According to Kurdish sources, the Israelis are secretly working with the Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG)\u00a0to carry out the integration of Kurdish and other Jews into areas of Iraq under control of the KRG.<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

Kurdish, Iraqi Sunni Muslims, and Turkmen have noted that Kurdish Israelis began to buy land in Iraqi Kurdistan, after the U.S. invasion in 2003, that is considered historical Jewish \u201cproperty.\u201d<\/span><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

The Israelis are particularly interested in the shrine of the Jewish prophet Nahum in al Qush, the prophet Jonah in Mosul,\u00a0and the tomb of the prophet Daniel in Kirkuk. Israelis are also trying to claim Jewish \u201cproperties\u201d outside of the Kurdish region, including the shrine of Ezekiel in the village of al-Kifl in Babel Province near Najaf and the tomb of Ezra in al-Uzayr in Misan Province, near Basra, both in southern Iraq\u2019s Shi\u2019a-dominated territory. Israeli expansionists consider these shrines and tombs as much a part of \u201cGreater Israel\u201d as Jerusalem and the West Bank, which they call \u201cJudea and Samaria.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n

Kurdish and Iraqi sources report that Israel\u2019s Mossad is working hand-in-hand with Israeli companies and \u201ctourists\u201d to stake a claim to the Jewish \u201cproperties\u201d of Israel in Iraq. The Mossad has already been heavily involved in training the Kurdish Pesha Merga military forces.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Reportedly assisting the Israelis are foreign mercenaries paid for by U.S. Christian evangelical circles that support the concept of \u201cChristian Zionism.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n

Iraqi nationalists charge that the Israeli expansion into Iraq is supported by both major Kurdish factions, including\u00a0the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan\u00a0headed by Iraq\u2019s nominal President Jalal Talabani. Talabani\u2019s son, Qubad Talabani, serves as the KRG\u2019s representative in Washington, where he lives with his wife <\/strong>Sherri Kraham, who is Jewish.<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

Also supporting the Israeli land acquisition activities is the Kurdistan Democratic Party, headed by Massoud Barzani, the president of the KRG. One of Barzani\u2019s five sons, Binjirfan Barzani, is reportedly heavily involved with the Israelis.<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

The Israelis and their Christian Zionist supporters enter Iraq not through Baghdad but through Turkey.<\/span><\/strong> In order to depopulate residents of lands the Israelis claim<\/span>, Mossad operatives and Christian Zionist mercenaries are staging terrorist attacks against Chaldean Christians, particularly in Nineveh, Irbil, al-Hamdaniya, Bartalah, Talasqaf, Batnayah, Bashiqah, Elkosheven,\u00a0Uqrah,\u00a0and Mosul.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

These attacks by the Israelis and their allies are usually reported as being the responsibility of \u201cAl Qaeda\u201d and other Islamic \u201cjihadists.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n

The ultimate aim of the Israelis is to depopulate the Christian population in and around Mosul and claim the land as biblical Jewish land that is part of \u201cGreater Israel.\u201d\u00a0The Israeli\/Christian Zionist operation\u00a0is a replay of the depopulation of the Palestinians\u00a0in the British mandate of Palestine after World War II.<\/strong><\/p>\n

In June 2003, a delegation of Israelis visited Mosul and said that it was Israel\u2019s intentions, with the assistance of Barzani, to establish Israeli control of the shrine of Jonah in Mosul and the shrine of\u00a0Nahum in the Mosul plains. The Israelis said Israeli and Iranian Jewish pilgrims would travel via Turkey to the area of Mosul and take over lands where Iraqi Christians lived.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Previously published in the<\/em> Wayne Madsen Report<\/em>.<\/p>\n

Copyright \u00a9 2008 <\/em>WayneMadenReport.com<\/em><\/p>\n

Wayne Madsen is a Washington, DC-based investigative journalist and nationally-distributed columnist. He is the editor and publisher of the <\/span><\/em>Wayne Madsen Report<\/em> (subscription required).<\/em><\/span> <\/span><\/p>\n

Copyright \u00a9 1998-2007 Online Journal<\/p>\n

Source:\u00a0 Online Journal, <\/span>Jan 30, 2009<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

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