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2 posted on
11/30/2023 6:05:41 AM PST by
SJackson
(In a war of ideas it is people who get killed.)
To: SJackson
...a blood ransom poll-tax demanded in lieu of being slain and completely dispossessed. The jizya was collected regularly (most often annually), in person, and in a manner that conferred the subject’s humiliation... Sounds like the IRS.
In reading through that article, I am having a hard time differentiating between how the Jews were treated by the Turks in the 1800's and how middle and lower class whites are treated by the US government in 2023.
One other question I have is...How much worse must it have been in Europe to have hundreds of thousands of Jews flee Europe to go to Palestine in the late 1800's early 1900's?
6 posted on
11/30/2023 6:29:16 AM PST by
nitzy
(I wonder if the telescreens in 1984 were first called "free Obamascreens")
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