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  • And many of them are not natural born "Sabras" either -- but hostile transplants from Brooklyn with all the self-righteousness of born again Israel's ..

    THE MEDIA COVERAGE OF GAZA: Many Questions, Few Answers. 2005

  • Keinan was of the first generation of Palestine-born Israelis, known as "Sabras".

    The Independent - Frontpage RSS Feed 2009

  • In the eyes of many Sabras, these refugees from Europe were the soft and weak remnants of the Diaspora.

    Crossing Mandelbaum Gate Kai Bird 2010

  • The Oriental immigrants, like all other immigrants, were perceived by the Israeli establishment as in need of a cure for the Diaspora disease from which they suffered, a cure that would turn them into Sabras.

    David Shasha: What Israel Means to Me 2010

  • In the eyes of many Sabras, these refugees from Europe were the soft and weak remnants of the Diaspora.

    Crossing Mandelbaum Gate Kai Bird 2010

  • The Yishuv leadership, and the Sabras after them, treated the Oriental immigrants with a mixture of affection, compassion, condescension, and arrogance -- the products of the combined ethoses of ingathering the exiles and rejecting the Diaspora.

    David Shasha: What Israel Means to Me 2010

  • The Yishuv leadership, and the Sabras after them, treated the Oriental immigrants with a mixture of affection, compassion, condescension, and arrogance -- the products of the combined ethoses of ingathering the exiles and rejecting the Diaspora.

    David Shasha: What Israel Means to Me 2010

  • The Yishuv leadership, and the Sabras after them, treated the Oriental immigrants with a mixture of affection, compassion, condescension, and arrogance -- the products of the combined ethoses of ingathering the exiles and rejecting the Diaspora.

    David Shasha: What Israel Means to Me 2010

  • The Oriental immigrants, like all other immigrants, were perceived by the Israeli establishment as in need of a cure for the Diaspora disease from which they suffered, a cure that would turn them into Sabras.

    David Shasha: What Israel Means to Me 2010

  • The Oriental immigrants, like all other immigrants, were perceived by the Israeli establishment as in need of a cure for the Diaspora disease from which they suffered, a cure that would turn them into Sabras.

    David Shasha: What Israel Means to Me 2010

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