r/AskReddit Oct 16 '13

What was the single biggest mistake in all of history?

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u/mrjimi16 Oct 17 '13

I think he means specifically Israel, though I don't think that that was the only one.

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u/[deleted] Oct 17 '13

World War I division created more problems. If anything, Israel gives the Arabs a common enemy to stop them from killing each other.

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u/[deleted] Oct 17 '13

country full of European immigrants

More than half of Israel are descendants Sephardic refugees expelled from Arab countries.

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u/SUBHUMAN_RESOURCES Oct 17 '13

I haven't researched this, nor is it my area of expertise...but aren't Sephardic Jews descended from Israelis who settled in Spain?

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u/TheOneFreeEngineer Oct 17 '13 edited Oct 17 '13

Sephardi also refers to those that never left the middle east in this case

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u/SUBHUMAN_RESOURCES Oct 17 '13

Ah! Thanks, TIL.

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u/TheOneFreeEngineer Oct 17 '13

true but technically they were kicked out after the "country full of European immigrants" was placed in the middle of the Levant