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cab67

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10. I know these things.

Sun May 16, 2021, 06:53 PM

May 2021

Like I said, I’ve been there. And I’m pretty sure I never said only Jewish and Muslim people live there. I’ve been to the Armenian Quarter of Old Jerusalem often enough to know that.

Judaism is different from most other religions. It’s as much a cultural identity as a belief system, and many Jewish people who aren’t observant - my wife, for example - would take exception to the notion that they aren’t Jewish.

Israel was founded explicitly as a Jewish state.

Another fun fact - the percentages I indicated are for the Israeli population as a whole, not just for Jewish and Muslim residents. Other demographic units - mostly Christians of one variety or another, along with Druze - comprise about 3.5 % of the Israeli population.

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