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Sure, the Nazi Influence Was Noxious, but How Could Such an Atrocity Have Occurred in a Country Where Jews Had Lived in Peace for Centuries?

The Lebanese government just took the unusual step of inviting Jews who’d left Lebanon to a 'family reunion' in its Paris embassy. But this wasn’t a welcome home event: it was a cynical fundraising ploy by a Hezbollah-dominated state utterly inhospitable to Jewish life

The Lebanese government just took the unusual step of inviting Jews who’d left Lebanon to a 'family reunion' in its Paris embassy. But this wasn’t a welcome home event: it was a cynical fundraising ploy by a Hezbollah-dominated state utterly inhospitable to Jewish life

The Lebanese government just took the unusual step of inviting Jews who’d left Lebanon to a 'family reunion' in its Paris embassy. But this wasn’t a welcome home event: it was a cynical fundraising ploy by a Hezbollah-dominated state utterly inhospitable to Jewish life

Part 1: The turn of the tide It’s the end of May 1941, Baghdad. The air in the city quivers, not only with the usual summer’s heat, but also with anxious anticipation. In April that year, an anti-British Iraqi nationalist movement supported by Nazi Germany carried out a coup against the Britain-supported Iraqi government. But the celebrations of independence from the British were premature. For the Allied Forces, the loss of Iraq threatened to cut them of oil supplies and strategic routes. Worse still, other Middle Eastern countries would likely follow suit and change their allegiance, br...