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Originally Posted by parihaka
Actually he's a really interesting guy to talk to. Without going into too much detail, he served in the IDF and worked for a while in their diplomatic protection squad.
He's proud of his Jewishness and also proud of his Arabic descent, so he was and is torn over what is happening there, and very happy to be out of it and living in New Zealand.
He shares with me a distaste for the mixing of politics and religion.
Oh, and he would consider that there is no difference between Arabic Jews and Jews 'proper'  |
As he should be.
What I meant by my statement about differences was a historical question, the Jews of Medina in Muhammads time seemed to worship the Prophet Ezra as the son of God, just wondering if this was common amongst Arabic jes, or was an aberration exclusive to that time and that place.