The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #67315   Message #1128794
Posted By: CarolC
03-Mar-04 - 09:01 PM
Thread Name: BS: Anti-Semitism & The Left
Subject: RE: BS: Anti-Semitism & The Left
Seeing that Israel is in the middle east why do you find it so necessary to point out to me that Jews in Israel eat traditional middle eastern foods.

The traditional foods of the Middle East are, to a sizable extent, the traditional foods of Arabs. I'm guessing you didn't read the article, which was by a woman who is an Arabic Jew. I am guessing you'd rather not think about or acknowledge the fact that some Jews are Arabs and that some Arabs are Jews.

However, I didn't post that article to discuss food. I found that article while I was searching for something else. I thought of your statement that you have to know something about a people to know what they think. I think you know little to nothing about Arabs, and possibly even about the present day Jews whose ancestors didn't take a side trip through Europe on their way from the Middle East to wherever they are now.

Hundres of miles from your trailer park are actually big supermarkets in Jewish neighborhoods that have aisles and aisles of Kosher food.

Yes. One of those would be the GIANT supermarket in Kemp Mill (Wheaton), Maryland, where my family and I used to do our grocery shopping when I was growing up there. It's located just about in the middle of this map:

Kemp Mill (and surrounding area)