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Thu - Jan 13 -

IRAQI VOTING:

from the Life Can Be Complicated Dept ~~

*Israelis of Iraqi origin can vote in Iraqi elections...

'I call on everyone who lives in the free states to come and vote, to provide a counter balance to the voters from other countries,' said Mithal al-Alousi, the Iraqi politician who visited Israel last year and is today the secretary general of the Democratic Party of the Iraqi nation. He was referring to hundreds of thousands of votes that will come from ballots posted in Iran.

Some 130,000 Jews emigrated from Iraq to Israel after it's establishment, decimating one of the oldest Jewish communities in the Arab world.*

:: Haaretz ::
-- From an article by Yoav Stern --

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