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Originally Posted by Rudyard K

Geez, the Jews and the Arabs have been fighting for what?...2,000 years?

We're just getting started good.

Not even close. And since you asked ... Jews were exiled from Israel 70 C.E. by the Romans and after 130 C.E or so always had a presence in modern-day Israel, at times smaller, at times (kabbalists in Safed) larger. Muslims captured much of it in the 9th and 10th century; multiple crusades in the 11th and 12th centuries (maybe 13th even) which was a Christian-Muslim fight although occasionally Christian armies detoured on the way and had pogroms against Jewish communities in France and Germany (most notably in 1090).

Eventually Ottoman Empire regained all control. Jews started migrating in larger numbers at the very start of the 19th century with more significant migrations in the late 19th and early 20th century. The MAJOR conflicts are very much a modern day fight and started to become very bitter after WWI when the British took over from the Ottomans.

Carry on.

[Sisyphus]

Originally Posted by I B Hankering

Much like Kentuckians! My gggrandpappie served ("fi't wit' tha") in the 8th Kentucky Volunteer Infantry.

True! And Missourians...Missourons???... whatever...

I had a number...on both sides of my family...and both sides of the war. The one I always found most interesting, though, wasn't a soldier. My gggrandpappie, on my maternal grandmammie's side, was a surgeon. He was present at Shiloh & a number of other battles. Fascinating guy...

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Originally Posted by Carrie Hillcrest

I heard the phrase "fixin' ta" slip out of my mouth the other day. I may as well go out and buy myself some spurs and a ten-gallon hat now; I've been infected, and thar ain't no cure.

Yes and not only to I say fixin’ to, but I say all y’all when referring to a particularly large group of y’alls.

Oh ya, I love the closed threads. I would hate to be a mod.

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Originally Posted by OliviaHoward

Oh ya, I love the closed threads. I would hate to be a mod.

Actually it's pretty easy (why else would they let me do it?). We just let DG and PJ prattle on (okay it's more than those two prattling). Then one of y'all crosses the line and everything hits the fan. Is that about righ JB?