To Sara

Submitted by Kepha Hor (United States), Mar 15, 2013 at 16:58

Sara, thank you for your clarifications. As for my instinct" v. your "reality", let me assure you that I think that a lot of instincts reflect intensely experienced reality.

There was an Ashkenazi American Jew I was talking with once who spoke very critically of the "Arab Jews" of Israel [ex-Iraqis, Yemenis, and Maghrebis], blaming them for "Israel's hardline". My reply was that maybe those "Arab Jews" knew something about living as Dhimmi under Islam that the rest of us, Jew or Christian, would be wise to heed (they sounded a little like some Armenians, Assyrians, Copts, Maronites, Zoroastrians, and Bangladeshi Christians I've known who thought they'd reached safety in the West). I recently read some of the Hadith about Dhimmi online, and can guess why the Muslim world either squeezes its Dhimmi or violently drives them out. And it's appalling that the vaunted "international community" doesn't raise this issue with the OIC, Arab League, and others.

Also, thank you for clarifications about so-called Israeli Apartheid.

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