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The David McWilliams Podcast
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The Relationship Between Israel and the Palestinians
Iraqi Jews were the oldest community in the whole of the Middle East. They kept a flat in a place called Ramad Gann, which is outside Tel Aviv. The older people in this part of the block spoke Arabic together. There's about two million Israeli Arabs live in Israel. And many of them lived very close to the port of Jaffa,. Which is not a million miles away from where I was. Because of what you had was they were Arabs. They were from Arab countries. So the food was the same, the culture was the same and the way they lived was the same. In these areas, there were newspapers in Spanish, in a language called Ladino.
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