Exiled from their ancestral lands by a mighty empire
of conquest and occupation, an ancient people of a
vanishingly small demographic on a globe holding
diverse ethnic, cultural, religious and societal
populations is distinct from all others by virtue of
its lightning-rod capricious attraction of hate. Its
decades, centuries, millennia of scattered pockets
in all regions of the world created a diaspora
forever a target of suspicion, hatred and violence.
These ancient people, descended from the Judaeans
that peopled the Middle East have found no certain
haven wherever they settled for centuries or for
thousand-year spans. When finally the appeal of
return to Zion re-established its heritage presence
welcoming persecuted Jews displaced from points
east and west on the globe, its presence provoked
surrounding tribes to gather in militaristic threat and
invasion time and again; each event repulsed as the
modern State of Israel asserted its right to exist.
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