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Israel/Palestine

oberliner

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23. A fate that has befallen pretty much every Jew everywhere they have ever lived in the world

Reply to brush (Reply #18)

Sat Sep 17, 2016, 04:08 PM

Sep 2016

Over the past two thousand years.

Either forced off their land or exterminated.

That was part of the motivation behind trying to have one country where they wouldn't be subject to that sort of thing.

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