(Israel Hayom) Yair Eizenberg - Former Miss Iraq, Sarah Idan, 34, is an ardent Israel supporter. "It's not for Israel - it's for the Free World. There's God's side, the good side, and there's the evil side. The people who hate Israel - the Islamists, the communists, the fascists, all these crazy people - they are against the Free World and free will. Many people are mistaken when they think that everything I do is just for Israel. It's not. It's because I know that Israel is the only one standing against the terrorists, against the crazy people. So yes, I want to be on the side of the good." "I grew up in the early 90s under Saddam Hussein's rule....On every street, there was an intelligence officer who had lists of all the residents on that street, and from time to time, he would interrogate them. Saddam Hussein would kill entire families if someone from them said something negative about him." Idan was educated like the rest of Iraq's children to hate Israel. "We were taught that there's a country of Jews that hates Iraq, and everywhere it was written 'Death to America, Death to Israel.' On Thursdays, we would stand in the schoolyard to sing songs about liberating Palestine." "We were taught that the Americans want to kill us all. After September 11, everyone went out to the streets to celebrate, and there were fireworks as if something happy had just happened and not a terrible disaster." About the Oct. 7 massacre, "It's hard for me that this is what my people did in the name of my religion. [But] I wasn't surprised at all. I've seen it already in Iraq, I know that's how they behave. I know how much they hate the Jewish people, and I know how barbaric they are. The difference is that if I once thought it was only radical Islamists who hate Jews, after Oct. 7, I realized it's 90% of ordinary people."
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