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In reply to the discussion: (Jewish Group) Sabra [View all]

FadedMullet

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1. Learned this term in ninth grade social studies back in 1961. Descrition of the brave people of Israel, displaced....
Sat Jul 26, 2025, 09:01 PM
Jul 26

.....after WWII and a new generation, born in the new Jewish State, making the desert bloom, pregnant women walking in from working in the fields and giving birth to another generation of Sabra children. Nice, huh? I believed it then and believed it until the last two years. Where did it all go wrong? Tonight's news was filled with very different children, Arab kids in Gaza starving to death. Israel's image has always been partly mythical, and recent events have exposed a part of Israeli society that have lost their humanity. Not "my people" at all.

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