Tekoah Describes Worsening Plight
of Iraqi Jews With UN's Waldheim
UNITED NATIONS (JTA)
—Ambassador Yosef Tekoah
met with Secretary General
Kurt Waldheim Tuesday and
gave him the text of a state-
ment Israeli Foreign Minister
Abba Eban presented to the
Knesset Sunday which con-
firmed the murder of five
members of the Kashkosh
family in Baghdad.
Tekoah discussed with
Waldheim the plight of Jew-
ish communities in Iraq,
Syria and the Soviet Union
and submitted the text of a
Knesset resolution adopted
Sunday which appealed to
parliaments and international
organizations to intercede
with Iraqi authorities to per-
mit the departure of Jews
from Iraq.
Tekoah also gave the secre-
tary general a list of the
names of Iraqi Jews who
have been abducted or disap-
peared and are feared dead.
They are:
Azouri Shemesh, Shaul
Rajwan, Yaacov Abdul Aziz,
Ezra Abu Daoud, Dr. Ezra
Khzam, Salim Sidka, Nagi
Tzitiat, Shaul Shemesh, Ezra
Shemtov, Nagi Kashkosh,
Suad Kashkosh (wife of
Nagi), Naim Patal, Ezra
Kahtan, Salim Kahtan, Shua
Uzeir.
The World Zoniist Organi-
zation Executive met Mon-
day to hear updated reports
on the worsening situation of
Jews in Iraq and Syria.
It issued a call to all gov-
ernments and enlightened
public opinion to fight for
their release. The session,
chaired by Louis Pincus, was
apprised of the murder of
the Kashkosh family in
Baghdad, the kidnapings of
other Jews and persecutions
in Iraq. The situation of
Syria's 4,000-5,000 Jews was
also deteriorating, the execu-
tive was told.
The executive called on
Zionist organizations around
the world to press govern-
ments and public opinion on
behalf of Iraqi and Syrian
Jews. "The Jewish people
and all men of good will shall
not give up the struggle un-
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are set free," the executive
declared.
(The American Jewis h
Committee reported that ac-
cording to information reach-
ing its Paris office, two more
Jews were recently murdered
in Baghdad. They were iden-
tified only as a Dr. Violet
Toeg and her husband. No
other information was imme-
diately available.)
The Knesset resolution on
this issue passed Sunday with
only the Rakah Communist
faction abstaining, stated:
"The Knesset has heard
with anguish and anger of
the murder in Baghdad of
all five members of the
Kashkosh family. This mur-
der of an entire family and
the disappearance of 16 other
Jews prove that the Iraqi
Jewish remnant numbering a
few hundred souls is subject
not only to abductions, arbi-
trary detentions and torture
but to the threat of annihila-
tion.
"The total exodus of the
Jews still in Iraq has become
the most urgent necessity
and applies also to our breth-
ren in Syria who are merci-
lessly oppressed by the au-
thorities. The Knesset ap-
peals to governments, parlia-
ments and international or-
ganizations to intercede im-
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mediately with the Iraqi au-
thorities and to demand that
they permit the departure of
all Jews from that country
so that they may reach a
safe haven."
During a news conference
here, Foreign Minister Abba
Eban said that reports of
murders, kidnapings and dis-
appearances are a "very
grave development. There
has definitely been a tragic
development affecting sev-
eral families in Iraq," Eban
said.
The Israel news agency,
ITIM, reported that it had
been informed the Iraqi se-
cret service took the Kash-
kosh family — parents and
three children, including a 15-
year-old girl — out of their
home and shot them in broad
daylight. A younger daughter
was spared, but her fate is
not known.
Two older boys from the
same family were kidnaped
several months ago. They are
also presumed to have been
killed.
During the past year, 16
Jews have disappeared, but
the Iraqi authorities claim
they fled to Iran. Some were
wealthy merchants whose
property was seized while
others had no property.
Two more Jews were ar-
rested in Baghdad several
days ago, according to relia-
ble information. They were
identified as Naim Fattal
and Shu Uzeir. Their where-
abouts are unknown. Accord-
ing to the same report, three
other Iraqi Jews, whose
names were not disclosed,
have disappeared without a
trace. There is grave anxiety
about their fate.
Some 200 people staged a
spontaneous demonstration
outside the Iraqi office in
London in protest against the
murders. The demonstrators
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1. The Land of Canaan.
2. West Bank, the Gaza
Strip, Sinai Peninsula, Golan
Heights and East Jerusalem.
3. The Balfour Declaration
—Nov. 2, 1917; UN Partition
Plan, Nov. 29, 1.947; establish-
ment of the state, May 14,
1948.
4. Jerusalem has had a
Jewish majority for 100
years. It was never the cap-
ital of a non-Jewish state.
5. Capernaum (Kfar Na-
hum) is the site of an ancient
community on the northern
tip of the Sea of Galilee. Of
religious import anc e to
Christianity, it has the re-
mains of an ancient syna-
gogue discovered in recent
times and which are being
reconstructed.
6. Megiddo is the site of an
ancient town and mountain
p a s s that controlled the
coastal plain and where de-
cisive battles took place be-
tween Israel and the invading
armies of Babylon and Egypt.
It is now an important arch-
eological site.
7. Haifa and Jerusalem.
8. Ashkelon is connected
with the story of Samson and
Delilah and it is the place
where Samson was captured
by the Philistines. Today it
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ite holiday r e sort. Mar
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and Nazareth.
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