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I second your main point. Legolas Send a noteboard - 07/06/2010 12:09:42 AM
If the truth be told, most of the Arab-speaking world aren't Arabs. They may be called Arabs, yes, but they aren't. Mesopotamia is inhabited by the descendants of the Sumerians, Babylonians and Assyrians. Canaan (I will choose the most neutral term for the land of Syria that is, roughly speaking, south of the Litani) is inhabited by the same people that inhabited it in antiquity. So is Egypt, and so is Turkey.


And I largely agree with the rest too, except that there is some Arab blood in most of those countries, surely. Places like Kufa and Baghdad were newly created under the Arabic regime, and largely peopled by Arabs. In Northern Africa, one would imagine the initial amount of Arabs was rather limited, but there have been migrations of Arab tribes to Egypt and even to the Maghreb in later centuries, such as the famous Banu Hilal.

And in Turkey's case, do the Turkish migrations from the Altaic mountains matter so little in terms of genetic ancestry?
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Jacqueline Rose on the Dreyfus affair and related problems, in the LRB - 06/06/2010 11:28:14 AM 1163 Views
What she has to say about Dreyfus is very interesting. - 06/06/2010 04:48:16 PM 949 Views
Re: What she has to say about Dreyfus is very interesting. - 06/06/2010 04:56:32 PM 871 Views
*remains amused at the suggestion of the Dreyfus Affairs "pertinence" to "current" events* - 06/06/2010 05:14:23 PM 883 Views
I agree in part and (strongly) disagree in part. - 06/06/2010 05:40:26 PM 847 Views
"If it's an eternal struggle, how could there ever be a solution or a peace?" - 06/06/2010 06:20:39 PM 915 Views
Purim may or may not refer to a historic event. Even if it does, Haman was not likely an Arab. - 07/06/2010 12:00:05 AM 765 Views
I second your main point. - 07/06/2010 12:09:42 AM 795 Views
I don't discount that there is Arab blood in many or even most "Arabs". - 07/06/2010 12:18:32 AM 768 Views
Okay, fair enough then. *NM* - 07/06/2010 08:45:19 AM 339 Views
The holiday is centuries old and real, regardless. - 07/06/2010 12:28:59 AM 858 Views
You're still missing the major point here. - 07/06/2010 12:44:08 AM 767 Views
That seems a rather limited view of history. - 07/06/2010 01:10:11 AM 870 Views
What the Hell are you going on about? - 07/06/2010 04:08:19 AM 838 Views
Oooh - 07/06/2010 11:07:43 AM 671 Views
Yeah, to whom was the claim on that land given? - 07/06/2010 10:35:42 PM 795 Views
jeez Joel... - 07/06/2010 04:24:47 AM 814 Views
No, the Persians are not Arabs. - 07/06/2010 10:09:47 PM 946 Views
I (coincidentally) stumbled across those infamous hadith passages about Jews the other day. - 07/06/2010 09:41:39 AM 858 Views
So? - 07/06/2010 10:50:49 PM 832 Views
So the relevance of apocalyptic passages is close to zero. - 07/06/2010 11:55:05 PM 797 Views
Not to mention - 08/06/2010 09:09:27 AM 703 Views
Then why are they canon? - 08/06/2010 06:25:09 PM 998 Views
are you claiming that people would pull some things out of holy text and ignore the rest? - 08/06/2010 12:16:41 PM 860 Views
*NM* - 08/06/2010 01:16:13 PM 334 Views
well, for me this just proves why we are not supposed to live among non-Jews - 06/06/2010 11:39:45 PM 956 Views
how so? - 06/06/2010 11:41:18 PM 712 Views
It reminds me of what I kept thinking as I read it. - 07/06/2010 12:51:36 AM 751 Views
couldn't get past the part where anyone who opposes Obama is a racist *NM* - 08/06/2010 01:40:07 AM 511 Views
You hallucinated? *NM* - 08/06/2010 08:39:37 AM 384 Views
No, that would've been one of the places where she should've shut up. *NM* - 08/06/2010 08:58:11 AM 321 Views
No - 08/06/2010 09:08:04 AM 736 Views
I think he's not talking about that bit, but about the very first paragraph. - 08/06/2010 09:30:21 AM 863 Views
If there was more I didn't get far enough to hear it - 08/06/2010 12:09:47 PM 718 Views
That's the problem with the speech - the large majority of what she had to say was worthwhile. - 08/06/2010 01:15:39 PM 772 Views
The problem is blatant bias - 08/06/2010 02:24:57 PM 757 Views

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