🚀 go-pugleaf

On 2007-01-01 23:19:20 -0600, Merlin Dorfman <dorfman@green.rahul.net> said:

> In ba.general Hal Burton <hal@burton.spam> wrote:
>> On 2007-01-01 13:58:47 -0600, Merlin Dorfman <dorfman@green.rahul.net> said:
> 
>>> In ba.general Disgruntled Customer <nowhere@nowhow.com> wrote:
>>> 
>>>> Up until about 1948 when Ashkenazis were doing the same sort of things 
>>>> to the British and Arabs that Palestinians do to Israel today, the 
>>>> Sephardihim lived generally in peace with their neighbors, which as 
>>>> Christian minorities lived in peace until Bush's new Crusade has 
>>>> provoked violence against their own minorities.
>>> 
>>> Cite for a significant Sephardic population in Israel before
>>> the Arab/Muslim countries (Iraq, Iran, Syria, Egypt, Morocco)
>>> began expelling their Jews after the formation of Israel?
> 
>> Merlin, Merlin, Merlin: you are becoming increasingly irrational. What 
>> does "up until about 1948" in the previous post mean?
> 
>      I think it means during the period of Irgun terrorism that led
> to the British abandonment of the Palestine mandate and the UN's
> creation of the State of Israel.  DC's claim is that the many
> Sephardim who lived in Israel before the Ashkenazim began to arrive
> got along with the local Arabs just fine.  Wrong on two accounts:
> there were, to my knowledge, very few Sephardim in the area until
> the Arab/Muslim countries in the Middle East began expelling them
> after the formation of Israel; and the many Ashkenazim in the area
> pre-1948 had many conflicts (as well as many peaceful interactions)
> with the local Arabs.

I think he was referring generally to Sephardim living among Muslims, 
as he compared them to Christians in the same context. I'll leave it it 
to DC to clarify himself.

> 
>> Are you really finding this thread to be rewarding in any sense?
> 
>      If I confined my Usenet postings to those that were rewarding
> in any sense, they would be damn near zero  :-)  But one of the
> reasons for continuing to post is that otherwise, other readers
> might get the impression that what DC (and some others) are saying
> must be true, because nobody was disagreeing.

While that may be true, I think by now this thread has devolved into 
mere amusement to the few outside observers who haven't dismissed 
it(which was how I was drawn in to begin with). Isn't this thread about 
a month old now?