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    11 hours ago

    People of all religions used to coexist in the area before the Brits declared they were in charge and segregation was a good idea.

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      5 hours ago

      Jews did not have equal rights in the Jerusalem Sanjak until the Ottoman Reform Edict of 1856.

      Before that you had things like the 1847 ethnic cleansing of Jews in Jerusalem, or the 1834 looting of Safed.