DBWI: Sephardic Jews never settled in Gaza

Today, I was watching a travel documentary about the city of Gaza and the surrounding towns and cities making up the district of the same name. I loved learning new languages and I've been in love with the said city because of the Ladino language. This is what I've learned from in the history books:
"After their expulsion from the Iberian Peninsula, the Sephardic Jews began to move into destinations like the city of Amsterdam, England, North Africa and in the Eastern Mediterranean, especially in the city of Gaza. The Ottoman authorities from the capital Baghdad allowed the refugees to live in the city, setting up a cornerstone for the establishment of a Ladino culture in Gaza. Over time, Ladino became the lingua franca of Gaza and the neighboring towns; Jews, Arabs and Christians speaking it, even some of the authorities..."

It was also said that the Zionist leaders agreed to a compromise with the Gaza leaders that both Hebrew and Ladino should be learned in schools across the District of Gaza, just like Yiddish-speaking counterparts in Jericho.

So, I'm always thinking: What if the Sephardic Jews chose other destinations across the Eastern Mediterranean over Gaza, and Ladino has become more prestigious in that alternate destination? What would happen to Gaza? To the Sephardic Jews themselves?

(Note: This DBWI thread is somehow related to my other thread)
 
You do know, don't you, that anything involving Jews and where they're allowed to live gets controversial very quickly indeed? Nobody is replying to your thread because it kind of looks as though maybe you're a racist with an anti-Jewish agenda which isn't worth commenting on. If you mean something else, you should be a bit clearer about it. Oh, by the way, if you are actually a racist - well, I don't know quite how strict the language filters on this forum are, so let's just call you an unmitigated rotter, shall we?
 
Ramones1986 is well known in this forum and is not, by any stretch of the imagination, a racist. And there have been plenty of civil discussions here about Jews and Jewish history, even in the Middle East.

I'll try to give a more substantive response later.
 
You do know, don't you, that anything involving Jews and where they're allowed to live gets controversial very quickly indeed?
Excuse me, I am not a racist, and this is a DBWI thread.
DB = Double Blind.

Also, there are threads about the Jewish people and their history in this forum, as Jonathan said.

As they say in my native tongue, Cool ka lang!
 

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You do know, don't you, that anything involving Jews and where they're allowed to live gets controversial very quickly indeed? Nobody is replying to your thread because it kind of looks as though maybe you're a racist with an anti-Jewish agenda which isn't worth commenting on. If you mean something else, you should be a bit clearer about it. Oh, by the way, if you are actually a racist - well, I don't know quite how strict the language filters on this forum are, so let's just call you an unmitigated rotter, shall we?
You've been here as a member for better than three years and you haven't figured out yet that you don't pull out the term racist without justification?

Remarkable.

Hopefully you will henceforth remember.
 
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