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If a Person Experiences Genocide Twice in His Lifetime, He Is Likely a Jew
(Israel Hayom) Eness Elias - Shlomo Mantzur was 3 1/2 when Muslim attackers stormed his home in Baghdad in 1941, beat his parents, and shot his beloved dog before his eyes. He climbed onto his rooftop and watched as the chaos of the Farhud mass pogrom against Baghdad's Jewish community unfolded. He saw men, women, and children slaughtered, bodies mutilated, women assaulted, synagogues torched, and Torah scrolls desecrated. "He saw Arabs take a Jewish woman's infant and toss the baby back and forth between them. She pleaded for them to return her child, but they impaled him before handing him back to her," his daughter recounted. Mantzur was among the founders of Kibbutz Kissufim, near Gaza. On Oct. 7, he was kidnapped from his home in the kibbutz, where he had lived with his wife Mazal for more than 60 years. Mazal managed to escape to a neighbor's house. On Feb. 11, it was confirmed that Shlomo, 87, was murdered by Hamas. Throughout history, Jewish communities in the Middle East faced expulsions, persecution, and massacres. As Arab nationalism emerged alongside Jewish Zionism, Muslim mobs carried out waves of savage massacres against Jews - pogroms in Iraq, Tripoli, Aden, Aleppo, and Morocco's Oujda and Jerada riots, among others. History shows that horrors at the hands of Muslims such as occurred on Oct. 7 have been part of the Jewish fate for thousands of years.