Tuesday, 23 September 2025

Go back 100 or 1000 years and try to find a Jew in the Middle East who actually speaks Hebrew at home. They're all speaking Arabic.

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Richard Medhurst
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Go back 100 or 1000 years and try to find a Jew in the Middle East who actually speaks Hebrew at home. They're all speaking Arabic. Even the rabbis would only use it for liturgical reasons, and it wasn't this cocktail of Yiddish and Arabic that Israelis try to pass off as Hebrew.
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Richard Medhurst
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I mean the whole thing is just ridiculous; pretending to be descended from people in a dif region thousands of years ago. Pure colonial fantasy. The original Hebrews, Canaanites etc. mostly converted to Christianity then Islam. A few stayed Christian and Jewish. And they all
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