Israeli Kurdish magazine urges Kurdish Jews in Israel to move back to Iraqi Kurdistan
AFP quoted Zana Rustayi, a representative of the Islamist Jamaa Islamiya party in the Iraqi Regional Assembly, as saying, "I'm suspicious. I don't see the point of this kind of publication. The Kurds are part of the Muslim nation, and Kurdistan is part of Iraq."
While many Iraqis are suspicious of the Kurdish-English language publication, others see it as a sign of growing press freedom in Iraq.
"Our media laws give every citizen who is a member of the Syndicate of Journalists the right to publish a magazine or newspaper within 24 hours, and we know that Dawood Baghestani is impartial and not allied to any political party or faction," Radio Netherlands Worldwide quoted Farhad Awni, leader of the Kurdistan Syndicate of Journalists, as saying on Wednesday.
Baghestani, 62, former chief of Iraqi Kurdistan's human rights commission, created Israel-Kurd and believes that if Israelis of Kurdish descent move back to Iraq, there will be more space for Palestinian refugees who wish to return to within the Green Line.
"The biggest reason behind the complexity of the Palestinian problem is the unjust practices of the Arab regimes against the Jews - there are more than 1.5 million Jews originally from Arab countries in Israel," Middle East Strategic Information quoted Baghestani as saying. More
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