Iraqi Shoutout to Jews of Kurdistan
The Jewish Journal reported earlier this week that Iraq's first lady, Hero Ibrahim Ahmed, wife of President Jalal Talabani, paid a visit to the Simon Wiesenthal Center.
The First Lady reminisced about her relationships with Jews of her Kurdish hometown, and, according to the Journal, toured the SWC's Museum of Tolerance.
Hero Ibrahim Ahmed, the petite first lady of Iraq, briefly recalled the killings and tortures the regime of dictator Saddam Hussein had inflicted on her fellow Kurds.
She added, "In every person's mind there is a small Saddam. Killing Saddam is nothing, but killing the Saddam in our minds is everything."
Of course, we at Moment thought of Ariel Sabar, whose piece in the current issue of our Magazine, "Return to Jewish Kurdistan," describes his trip to the Kurdish village where his father had grown up.
For a year,...