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To: marcos who wrote (11322)	6/8/1999 12:42:00 PM
From: Neocon	Respond to of 17770

Spinoza was, indeed, a Sephardic Jew, as is Yaacov, to the best of my knowledge. The woman who wrote the poem for the Statue of Liberty, Emma Lazarus, was also Sephardic, by way of Great Britain. Most of the Jewish settlers in the colonial and early Federalist period were Sephardim, either from Holland or England. The next big wave was in the middle of the 19th century, from Germany. The last big wave of Jewish immigration was the one my great- grandparent arrived in, around the turn of the century, from Eastern Europe. My people came from Latvia...

To: marcos who wrote (11322)	6/8/1999 1:10:00 PM
From: Emile Vidrine	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 17770

"Islam did treat them much kinder than Christendom," Why not? The Sephardim had cooperated and participated with Islam's occupation and persecution of Spain for some 600 years. I guess it was only natural for the Sephardim who had cooperated with the Moslem occupiers of Spain to help their friends invade yet another part of Europe. The American media's strong support for the Albanian Moslems was certainly strange. Generally the media takes a strong anti-Moslem stance because of the Moslem opposition to Zionism. Their support for the Moslem Albanians could very well be explained by the ancient Turkish-Sephardim connection in the invasion of Kosovo-Serbia in the sixteenth century. Yes, this could help explain the medias support of the Kosovo Moslem Albanians?