the Persians are not and never have been Arab. Calling an Iranian an Arab is a good way to get into a fight. Jews and Arabs are Semitic-Persians are not. Nor were the Samaritans Arabic. According to the Bible, they were from many different groups that had been conquered by the Assyrians and were brought in to resettle where they had taken Jews into exile. This fixation you have on making the Arab-Israeli conflict extend back to Biblical times has no basis in facts.
Mook
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Jacqueline Rose on the Dreyfus affair and related problems, in the LRB
- 06/06/2010 11:28:14 AM
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*remains amused at the suggestion of the Dreyfus Affairs "pertinence" to "current" events* 
- 06/06/2010 05:14:23 PM
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- 06/06/2010 05:14:23 PM
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I agree in part and (strongly) disagree in part.
- 06/06/2010 05:40:26 PM
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"If it's an eternal struggle, how could there ever be a solution or a peace?"
- 06/06/2010 06:20:39 PM
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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
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I second your main point.
- 07/06/2010 12:09:42 AM
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I don't discount that there is Arab blood in many or even most "Arabs".
- 07/06/2010 12:18:32 AM
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The holiday is centuries old and real, regardless.
- 07/06/2010 12:28:59 AM
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You're still missing the major point here.
- 07/06/2010 12:44:08 AM
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That seems a rather limited view of history.
- 07/06/2010 01:10:11 AM
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jeez Joel...
- 07/06/2010 04:24:47 AM
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I (coincidentally) stumbled across those infamous hadith passages about Jews the other day.
- 07/06/2010 09:41:39 AM
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So?
- 07/06/2010 10:50:49 PM
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are you claiming that people would pull some things out of holy text and ignore the rest?
- 08/06/2010 12:16:41 PM
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well, for me this just proves why we are not supposed to live among non-Jews
- 06/06/2010 11:39:45 PM
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couldn't get past the part where anyone who opposes Obama is a racist *NM*
- 08/06/2010 01:40:07 AM
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You hallucinated? *NM*
- 08/06/2010 08:39:37 AM
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No, that would've been one of the places where she should've shut up. *NM*
- 08/06/2010 08:58:11 AM
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No
- 08/06/2010 09:08:04 AM
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I think he's not talking about that bit, but about the very first paragraph.
- 08/06/2010 09:30:21 AM
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If there was more I didn't get far enough to hear it
- 08/06/2010 12:09:47 PM
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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
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