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To: TobagoJack who wrote (8305)8/15/2006 2:07:03 AM
From: energyplay  Read Replies (3) | Respond to of 217720
 
Well, there's a larger percentage blond Jews than Arabs....

Not an expert, but about 4 major Jewish groups (lots of spelling errors here)

Sephardic
Ashkenazi (Poland, Germany etc.)
Russian, including Kazaks
and another I can't remember

also some very small groups of Ethiopian Jews.

No idea how this lines up with 12 tribes.

A lot more diversity than say a group of Iraqis, even if you include Kurds.

I saw a recent documentary about the Israeli raid on the Saddam's reactors. There were a few pilots who might have passed for Arabs, but the majority look like average Europeans.
Probably not a clean random sample, however.

I will guess that when many Jews look at Arabs, they don't see people who look like their second cousin - they see the OTHER.

Add in a huge cultural, economic, and education gap.

*******

Besides, much of the history of civil wars shows that familial relations are only a speed bump on the road to slaughter.



To: TobagoJack who wrote (8305)8/15/2006 8:41:01 AM
From: Moominoid  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 217720
 
Exactly - like Orthodox Serbs and Catholic Croats and Bosnian Muslims who converted to Islam. Racism is over-rated. Culturalism is where its at.