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September 27, 2021
At Risk of Arrest, Prominent Iraqis Call for Peace with Israel
“We can live under the repression of terrorism or we can die with courage.”
At a conference held last Friday in the Iraqi city of Erbil, some 300 activists and tribal leaders expressed their support for normalizing relations with the Jewish state, and for engaging in outreach to the Jewish Diaspora. Sahar Karim al-Ta’i, a high-ranking official in the Iraqi government and a key figure at the conference, spoke about the issue with Lazar Berman:
September 27, 2021
At Risk of Arrest, Prominent Iraqis Call for Peace with Israel
“We can live under the repression of terrorism or we can die with courage.”
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