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If it's a european transplant, then how do you explain the fact that the majority of Jews in Israel are Arabs?
by messy on Mon Jul 24th, 2006 at 09:42:11 AM EST
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Define "Arab"?

Nothing is 'mere'. — Richard P. Feynman
by Migeru (migeru at eurotrib dot com) on Mon Jul 24th, 2006 at 09:48:13 AM EST
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Someone who, or who's recent ancestors comes from a country that has an islamic government and has Arabic as it's official primary language.

Tunisia, for example is an Arab country.

by messy on Mon Jul 24th, 2006 at 09:59:52 AM EST
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So you're saying the Mizrahim outnumber the Ashkenazim and the Sephardim?

Nothing is 'mere'. — Richard P. Feynman
by Migeru (migeru at eurotrib dot com) on Mon Jul 24th, 2006 at 10:04:22 AM EST
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Well, you have to remember that most of the sephardim fled to Ottoman Turkey after the Trastamara regime kicked them out of Spain, and many of them wound up in what is now Syria and Palestine. That was before the ethnic cleansing there (Palestine) during the late 17th and early 18th centuries.

"True" Jewish Arabs, i.e., Yeminis, Iraqis and the like (we can also ad Iran, which is not actually "Arab" in the linguistic sense, but surely is in the cultural one.) were kicked out of their home countries and went to Israel, and in fact there were more of them than Palestinians period back in 1950.

The Sephardim and Mizrahim hate the arabs more than the Askenazis, because of what the Arabs did to THEM personally.

by messy on Mon Jul 24th, 2006 at 03:38:01 PM EST
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You have not answered my question. Point me to statistics showing that the Ashkenazi are not a majority.

Nothing is 'mere'. — Richard P. Feynman
by Migeru (migeru at eurotrib dot com) on Mon Jul 24th, 2006 at 04:36:19 PM EST
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