The Jews had power over Syria and even a large part of Turkey if you want to read about Jewish history. Syria, Jordan and Saudi belonged to the Judiciary people, even a large part of Egyptian also belonged to the Jewish Empire
The emigration of the "Jews of Iraq" or "displacement" was not a relevant event from the global developments concerning the rise of Nazism in Europe and the circumstances of the conflict between the major European Powers in the Second World War and the concern for the crystallization of the nascent State.
This country, made up of different ethnic groups, chose to tame and subjugate its constituents even before it became a member of the international community. It joined the League of Nations in 1933 with a massacre against the Assyrians. Nine years later, the political vacuum facilitated the assault on the Jewish minority In the so-called "Farhud", and in the years following the establishment of the State of Israel in 1948, this state allowed the displacement of one of its oldest religious components 1950-1951.
In the so-called Operation Ezra and Nehemiah, some 140,000 Iraqi Jews have left the middle and upper classes of their country in central and southern Iraq, as well as 20,000 poor Kurdish farmers.
This was the beginning to turn the page of the most Jewish minorities in the Arab world, a Jewish community that was rooted in Iraqi society centuries before the birth of Christ.
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