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Gonna to be blunt. As a general rule sex workers are NOT volunteers whether on the street or anywhere else. Leverage and threats are commonplace. A much smaller segment are patriots for lack of a better word.

In that region (SWA) people never forget wrongs. They are passed generation to generation. Makes some prime candidates for recruitment by other governments and other centers of power. Some are not restricted to wimmin. Includes children of both genders right up to elders, and the religious.

That region is not the Holy Land. It's the Land of Treachery. Am including a much wider sphere than Jerusalem. One large circle encompassing all the so-called holy sites of the 3Abrahamics in SWA (Middle East). To put it into perspective it's the US's current state of politics X 1M X the number of nations/sects/etc.

(tongue-in-cheek) A forty-foot wall should be erected around the entire region with a dome on top, then call it a hooman zoo and charge admission to enter.

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3000 years of hate.

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3000 years of tribal competition, invading conquerors, and warfare.

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Two peoples lived in the same land for thousands of years. I still don't comprehend why they can't decide to live in the same land now, even with wildly different religious traditions. There are many Arab Israelis even now, so it is possible. Without the extremism of both ultra-fundamentalist Jews and Muslims, chances are there could be ways to have one state encompassing both peoples. But they have to want to do it, and they would have to have stellar leadership to accomplish that.

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Actually, going back to the early 1900s and Lawrence of Arabia would be good enough. The British just love to meddle.

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Pre-7Oct there were signs of green shoots. Both Hamas and Bibi made sure to stamp them out.

If I may add without substracting your on point remark, the words ignorance and fear to hate.

All3 are contagions. When one infects a person it's highly likely so will the other two. That person is highly likely to spread one, two, or three to others.

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No doubt. It goes back to the Israelites entering the land of the ancient descendants of the modern Arabs. And we Irish thought we held grudges!

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Can only wish them the best and to stay prepared for the worst (including themselves).

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You do recall that they were emerging from 400 years of slavery in an Arab country, Egypt, and that they had lived in their own land much much longer and were returning to it. Before that they were all semitics. All of them. And btw quite a few Egyptians joined the group claiming their freedom away from Egypt. History can be such a bummer when you don't know it or don't want to know it.

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Call in a wall expert, how about Donald J. Trump?

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lol.

Best be higher and slipperier than the wall in World War Z

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