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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 1209 Views
What she has to say about Dreyfus is very interesting. - 06/06/2010 04:48:16 PM 998 Views
Re: What she has to say about Dreyfus is very interesting. - 06/06/2010 04:56:32 PM 924 Views
*remains amused at the suggestion of the Dreyfus Affairs "pertinence" to "current" events* - 06/06/2010 05:14:23 PM 927 Views
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I second your main point. - 07/06/2010 12:09:42 AM 858 Views
I don't discount that there is Arab blood in many or even most "Arabs". - 07/06/2010 12:18:32 AM 818 Views
Okay, fair enough then. *NM* - 07/06/2010 08:45:19 AM 368 Views
The holiday is centuries old and real, regardless. - 07/06/2010 12:28:59 AM 919 Views
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Oooh - 07/06/2010 11:07:43 AM 717 Views
Yeah, to whom was the claim on that land given? - 07/06/2010 10:35:42 PM 850 Views
jeez Joel... - 07/06/2010 04:24:47 AM 863 Views
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So? - 07/06/2010 10:50:49 PM 886 Views
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Not to mention - 08/06/2010 09:09:27 AM 745 Views
Then why are they canon? - 08/06/2010 06:25:09 PM 1048 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 907 Views
*NM* - 08/06/2010 01:16:13 PM 353 Views
well, for me this just proves why we are not supposed to live among non-Jews - 06/06/2010 11:39:45 PM 1012 Views
how so? - 06/06/2010 11:41:18 PM 755 Views
It reminds me of what I kept thinking as I read it. - 07/06/2010 12:51:36 AM 796 Views
couldn't get past the part where anyone who opposes Obama is a racist *NM* - 08/06/2010 01:40:07 AM 537 Views
You hallucinated? *NM* - 08/06/2010 08:39:37 AM 411 Views
No, that would've been one of the places where she should've shut up. *NM* - 08/06/2010 08:58:11 AM 347 Views
No - 08/06/2010 09:08:04 AM 786 Views
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If there was more I didn't get far enough to hear it - 08/06/2010 12:09:47 PM 773 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 822 Views
The problem is blatant bias - 08/06/2010 02:24:57 PM 808 Views

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