Jewish American Heritage Month

Posted By simmons on February 25, 2014

Al Toum explained to Al Arabiya News, a Saudi-owned publication, that he consumes olive oil and thyme, a medicinal herb, every morning for breakfast and rabbit meat for lunch every day. He also said that ghee a kind of clarified butter that is typically associated with India forms an important part of his daily diet.Emirates 24/7 News reported that Al Toum believes he may actually be the oldest person on earth and would like to be so recognized in the Guinness Book of World Records. Over the span of his immense life, Al Toum has observed a bewildering array of historical events and foreign powers come and go from Ottoman Turks (for whom he fought during World War I as a young man) to the British to the Egyptians to the Israelis and now, Hamas, the fundamentalist Islamic militant group that governs his native Gaza.Al Arabiya reported last year that Al Toum reminisced about how during his youth he could travel around the Middle East (between Turkey, Lebanon, Syria, Jordan and even as far away as Libya) without carrying any passports or identity papers.He also evinced a melancholy longing for what he claimed was a peaceful past under the Ottoman Turks.Under the Ottomans, everything was free, he told Al Arabiya

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