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@JohnGil13866624 @questionsin2014 @PrinceAdam97 @arbutus_point @AdamDFSBraves @JordanUhl "We would have liked to be Arab Jews. If we abandoned the idea, it is because over the centuries the Moslem Arabs systematically prevented its realization by their contempt and cruelty. It is now too late for us to become Arab Jews.1/x

@JohnGil13866624 @questionsin2014 @PrinceAdam97 @arbutus_point @AdamDFSBraves @JordanUhl Not only were the homes of Jews in Germany and Poland torn down, scattered to the four winds, demolished, but our homes as well. Objectively speaking, there are no longer any Jewish communities in any Arab country, 2/x

@JohnGil13866624 @questionsin2014 @PrinceAdam97 @arbutus_point @AdamDFSBraves @JordanUhl and you will not find a single Arab Jew who will agree to return to his native land.
I must be clearer: the much vaunted idyllic life of the Jews in Arab lands is a myth! The truth, since I am obliged to return to it, is that 3/x

@JohnGil13866624 @questionsin2014 @PrinceAdam97 @arbutus_point @AdamDFSBraves @JordanUhl from the outset we were a minority in a hostile environment; as such, we underwent all the fears, the agonies, and the constant sense of frailty of the underdog. As far back as my childhood memories go - in the tales of my father, my grandparents, my aunts and uncles 4/x

@JohnGil13866624 @questionsin2014 @PrinceAdam97 @arbutus_point @AdamDFSBraves @JordanUhl - coexistence with the Arabs was not just uncomfortable, it was marked by threats periodically carried out.[-] .. the Jews were at the mercy not only of the monarch but also of the man in the street. My grandfather still wore the obligatory and discriminatory Jewish garb, 5/x

@JohnGil13866624 @questionsin2014 @PrinceAdam97 @arbutus_point @AdamDFSBraves @JordanUhl and in his time every Jew might expect to be hit on the head by any Moslem whom he happened to pass. This pleasant ritual even had a name - the chtaka; and with it went a sacramental formula which I have forgotten." ~Albert Memmi 6/x
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@JohnGil13866624 @questionsin2014 @PrinceAdam97 @arbutus_point @AdamDFSBraves @JordanUhl Of course one can always maintain that such an existence, though harsh and brutal, is something Jews - being Jews- should have welcomed and continue to welcome. Being Jews, it is ordained that they cannot live a normal life, free of the demonic hatreds of anti-Semites. 7/7

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