Jews have been in Egypt since Biblical times, and Alexandria had once been, at least partially, a Jewish city.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
I feel that the Jews have always had a special connection to this part of the world, which in geographical terms was called Palestine for so many centuries.
Jewish villages were built in the place of Arab villages. You do not even know the names of these Arab villages, and I do not blame you because geography books no longer exist.
Jewish existence in the Land of Israel depends only on the Jews, and on what the Jews think of themselves.
I don't think the area of Jerusalem should be part of a Jewish state; it belongs to all people, to Christians and Muslims and the Jewish people.
In the New York metropolitan area, you can find Jews from just about every Jewish cultural community in the world.
You know, I get much more Jewish in Israel because I like the way that religion is done there.
Egypt was - as it is now - a confluence of cultures, as a result of being a crossroads geographically between Africa, the Middle East and Europe.
In the Jewish tradition, there is at the same time Jerusalem in the heavens and Jerusalem on the ground. Jerusalem is a living city, but also the heart, the soul of the Jewish people and the state of Israel.
Jewish and Arab neighborhoods in Jerusalem are interlaced one with the other.
Jews have been living in Jerusalem way before British people were living in London.