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Hortensis

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7. Very scary. Israeli Jews and Israeli Palestinians have mostly avoided fighting.

Reply to Humanist_Activist (Original post)

Sat May 15, 2021, 05:05 PM

May 2021

I heard roughly 21% are Arab/Palestinian. Few enough to be oppressed, too few to stop the many, too many to send to concentration camps, but enough to fight. They HAVE to get along and both sides have always known it.

(Jews were @1% of Germans back in the 1930s.)

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