Mukhrani
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Deceptive, as these are the number of Jews which had registered, not who had actually left Iraq. At the mid point of that graph, barely 10,000 Jews had left Iraq. There was a limit to the registration process, so there was a rush to register, but that didn't necessarily mean that the registrants would follow through. Even at the close of the registration process, not even half had left. The Iraqi government was not revoking their citizenships within 15 days, as they had originally said they would, so there was still plenty of incentive for radical elements of the Israeli government to create panic to provoke any potential emigrees from getting cold feet. The registration far outstripped what the Iraqi government had expected and kind of blew up in their faces. The Iraqi Jews themselves, upon arriving in Israel, overwhelmingly held the opinion that the bombings had been carried out by Israeli interests to force them to make the jump.
It also cuts of the registration at the originally announced closure date of in March 1951, ignoring the fact that the Iraqi government extended the offer past that deadline and registrations continued. Finally, it doesn't include all the bombings, several did take place in the 'no bombings' periods, they simply didn't have any casualties. Tensions mounted, further driving registration numbers.
You do realize you're quoting as unimpeachable evidence that one of the bombings was carried out by an Arab a book (History of the Zionist Movement in Iraq and its Role in the Emigration of the Jews in 1950–1951) which also presents evidence that all of the other bombings were driven by the Zionist underground and Israeli interests?Explosion 1 was done by an arab from the Istiqlal terrorist group. We know this because
His conclusion that the Istiqlal group was responsible for Explosion 1 was reached, he says, “tentatively, on the basis of one flimsy piece of evidence.” The “flimsy” evidence is a confession, voluntarily given by one of the bombers to Iraqi journalist Shamil Abdul Qadir, who directly quoted the confession in a 2013 book. “[W]e threw the bombs on the Jews sitting there and we escaped and hid in a house rented near the entry of Abu Newas Street near the casino and we disappeared,” the bomber told Qadir.
Explosion 2 happened after 8 of 10 Iraqi Jews registered to leave. At that point, they would have registered regardless.
