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Jewish Population

United States 5,800,000
Israel 4,847,000
followed by France, Russia, Ukraine, Canada, UK, Argentina, Brazil, South Africa, and Australia and many more places with smaller populations.

I have known many Jews who could claim a variety of different ethnicities. At one time there were large numbers of Chinese Jews, mostly killed around 1648 in a rebellion led an old general named Old One Eye. I have known Indian Jews, who were definitely Indian. Ethopian Jews, Falasha, look Ethopian and are so Ethnically.

Israel is I would say is a state in the middle east and therefore is extremely interconnected with everything in the region. As to being Semetic and sharing that heritage with their Arab neighbors, there are plenty of similarities, but plenty of difference. As to similar language backgrounds. The semetic language groups share similar features and theoretically may have developed from the same common root. They share similar roots of words sometimes and some similarity in grammer. But much of the grammer and word morphology is completely different. But, German and Farsi are both Indo-European languages and they share many similar words, daughter is the same in both languages and many more. But how close is their common heritage there? Is there one? Spain is probably the closest country that is ethnically and historically linked by history to the middle east and the Arabs. But despite the common background, we can't group them that way. I would say the same is true of Israel and Jews.

I am not sure I understood what you meant by the following, Sir.

"And the last sentence shows another similarity between Jews and Arabs. Mossada. The Uprising. Jews have also made conscious decisions to become martyrs." GH