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Bill Maher [/quote]
He couldn't explain how a tissue works.

Middle East conflict is just generational feuding among siblings (Semites). Half the Semites broke away from the Hebrews and formed their own religion (Islam) and now have forgotten why they fight each other at all. [/quote]

Wrong. Wrong. Wrong.

Zionism rearing its ugly head in the ME at the turn of the 20th Century started this. Stop telling yourself this tiresome lie about Jews and Muslims fighting.
The very reason Jews went back to the ME was because they were protected from Euro Christians who massacred them whether during the Inquisition, Holocaust, etc. ARAB Jews were a part of every ME country. Wealthy, prominent, educated and in govt. Guess why they're now called "Mizrahi" Jews?

It's quite galling watching Zionist Jews get all buddy-buddy with Europe and projecting the actual antisemitism from that continent to defend massacring people who had nothing to do with what Europe and Christianity has done to Jews for a thousand years. What it shows is that [b]Zionist Jews (who are predominantly Ashkenazi)[/b] are racist first before they are Jewish.[/quote]

Most Israeli Jews are not Ashkenazi now, and the Mizrahi and Sephardic political parties are among the most rabidly right-wing and religious nationalist ones there are. The entire peace movement in Israel, to the extent it still exists, is basically seen as a project of out of touch old Ashkenazi leftists. So you're wrong about who's driving today's Israeli Zionism.

You're right that Jews lived in a lot of Middle Eastern countries, but there are frequent massacres of Jews around the Middle East in the Middle Ages, albeit not as frequent as in Europe -- in Morocco in 1465, Libya in 1785, Algeria throughout the early 1800s. In the 1800s, most Jews in the Middle East were required to live in ghettos, just as they were in Europe. Obviously, the pogroms in Russia in the 1880s/the Russian civil war in the 1920s/the Holocaust in the 1940s were worse for Jews there. And none of that history excuses any of the many atrocities committed by the Israeli army in the last century and a half. But this notion that Jews in Muslim lands were welcomed as equals until the State of Israel was established is false.[/quote]

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