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RZM

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5. You repeat a common myth about I/P

Reply to NathanTheGreat (Reply #4)

Tue Jan 10, 2012, 01:59 PM

Jan 2012

As if they have been at each others throats constantly for thousands of years.

In fact, the conflict as we know it isn't all that much longer than 100 years old. It pretty much dates from the beginnings of modern Zionism, which emerged at the end of the 19th century.

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