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Comment by fmajid

2 years ago

Irish-Americans outnumber Irish-Irish nearly 10:1. For a very long time Jewish Americans outnumbered Israeli Jews, if not as lopsidedly.

Around 1AD, the greatest concentration of Jewish people was Alexandria, Egypt, where they made up 1/3 the population, not Jerusalem. The actual history of the Middle East defies simplistic narratives.

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