04-03-2008, 05:46 AM
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Sr. Correspondent
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Join Date: Nov 2007
Posts: 513
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And you are right, at least partly, the fault lies on my part because I did not differentiate between real, Semitic, and Ashkenazim, Mongolian, Jews. Semitic Jews, similar to Arabs, really do not seem to have any trouble working with the land.
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Only about 15 percent of all Jews are Sephardi, the rest being Ashkenazim, whose ancestors settled in middle or northern Europe after the Romans expelled them from Israel. Though only a fraction of world Jewry, Sephardim make up 55 percent of the Israeli population.
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http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpag...51C1A961948260
these sephardi jews were the one expelled from arablands |