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Monday, December 01, 2014

Jews have lived in Turkey for 522 years. But even friends refer to them as "foreigners". - Your Middle East

Jews have lived in Turkey for 522 years. But even friends refer to them as "foreigners".

"Turkey is their country. And it is not," writes Burak Bekdil in this thought-provoking piece.

In 2008, Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas's official news agency, Wafa, reported that Israel had released poison-resistant rats to drive Arab residents of Jerusalem out of their homes. Scientists are still trying to understand how rats are trained to distinguish between Muslim, Christian and Jewish residents of a city.

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