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Skjaldemjøden
One of my Israeli Arabs friends is from Jisr az-Zarqa in Northern Israel. He relayed to me once that his ancestors were Egyptians. When I asked his father about it, he told me that his grandfathers came per request by Edmond James de Rothschild in 1903 to dry the swamps around Atlit. The residents of their town were shunned by Palestinians as collaborators with Zionism for the most part of the past century, and resorted to intermarriage. He's dark-skinned and has distinct African features IMO. I have a picture of us somewhere. One of his siblings is his spitting image, but with hazel eyes. His mother's clan, I was told upon inquiring, was Moroccan in origin and came 200 years ago. His neighbor and friend told me that his own ancestors hailed from Saudi Arabia 800 years ago as warriors of Saladin, and boasted some link to prophet Muhammad. He denied that the town was relatively new, and said that members of a nearby kibbutz had erased the inscriptions on their ancient graves - a pretty preposterous claim.
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