Muzahim el Pachachi

Muzahim el Pachachi

Muzahim Amin el Patchachi ( Arabic مزاحم الباجه جي Muzahim Amin al-Badschaji ; * September 22, 1891 in Baghdad ; † September 23, 1982 in Geneva , Switzerland ) was a nationalist statesman and diplomat in the Kingdom of Iraq who campaigned against the Ottoman Empire and against Israel .

Life

Pachachi came from a wealthy family and attended law school in Baghdad. In 1912 he organized the Arab nationalist cultural club, whose members included the Ottoman governor and later Iraqi interior minister Talib al-Naqib , Hamdi al-Patschatschi and the poet and later politician Muhammad Ridha . After British soldiers occupied Mesopotamia in 1917 , El Patschatschi worked for the occupying forces as a translator and later as a lawyer. In 1924 el Pachachi was elected member of the Constituent Assembly of Iraq and helped draft the Iraqi constitution . He was appointed Minister of Labor that same year, which he remained until 1925. He was a member of the Iraqi parliament until 1927 , then ambassador to Great Britain until 1928 . In 1930 he was briefly Minister of the Interior. In this role he tried to prevent the Anglo-Iraqi treaty .

From 1933 to 1935 he was Iraq's representative to the League of Nations , then ambassador to Italy until 1939 and then to France until 1942 . During this time he established contacts with the Soviet Union and joined the League against Imperialism by Virendranath Chattopadhyaya . After the occupation of France, el Patschatschi went to Switzerland . Over time, he built sympathy for the Palestinians in the 1940s and eventually rejected the United Nations- negotiated ceasefire in Palestine .

On June 26, 1948, he was appointed Prime Minister by the King, while he led the Arab Liberation Army in the Palestine War . However, el Pachachi's government was ousted on January 6, 1949. In the same year, El Pachachi was appointed Deputy Prime Minister by Nuri as-Said , and he was Foreign Minister until 1950. Pachachi opposed the 1951 Expatriation Act , which forced over 100,000 Iraqi Jews to leave the country without taking their property with them . He left Iraq himself that year and only returned to the country after General Kassem's bloody military coup in 1958.

After 1958 Pachachi supported the pan-Arabism of Gamal Abdel Nasser , although he was no longer politically active themselves. His son Adnan also served as a politician and diplomat since the overthrow of dictator Saddam Hussein and Prime Minister Ahmad Hussein Chudair in 2003.

swell

• What happened January 1949. Retrieved October 29, 2018 . 
• Ghareeb, Edmund A. Historical Dictionary of Iraq , pp. 179-80. Scarecrow Press, 2004, ISBN 0810843307 .

Individual evidence

1. ^ Operation Ali Baba , in: Der Spiegel, May 2, 1951.