Bob Ackley -> Bob Klahn wrote:
 BA> Replying to a message of Bob Klahn to Roy Witt:

 BK>>  And much of the Old Testament involves Israel conquering Arabs.
 BK>>  Oh, and Egyptians do not consider themselves Arabs.

 BA> Egyptians are *not* Arabs.  Egypt was conquered by arabs a millenium
 BA> or more ago.  There's probably been considerable intermixing of the races
 BA> by now.  Arabs are native to only one specific geographic area.

 BA> On that subject, Turks are not Arabs, Iranians are not Arabs, Pakistanis
 BA> are
 BA> not Arabs, Lebanese are not Arabs and Afghanis are not Arabs.  Libyans,
 BA> Moroccans and Algerians aren't Arabs either, although a lot of Arabs
 BA> live in
 BA> those nations.

Point of order: Arab is a nationality and language, but it is not a race.
For that matter neither are Iranian, Pakistanis or any of the other groups
you listed. Arabic culture *DID* take over the ancient Egyptian culture
after Rome did it first. :)

There are *ONLY* three races; Caucasoid (white), Negroid (black) and
Mongoloid (Asian). It is likely that the northern Middle East is a
combination of Caucasoid and Asian and that the southern Middle East is a
combination of all three.

-- 
L'Chaim,
Mimi

mgallandt670{at}gmail.com

http://www.myspace.com/fcpnmimi

"Anti-Zionism = Anti-Semitism"
- Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
". . . You declare, my friend, that you do not hate the Jews, you are
merely 'anti-Zionist.' And I say, let the truth ring forth from the high
mountain tops, let it echo through the valleys of God's green earth: When
people criticize Zionism, they mean Jews--this is God's own truth.
Antisemitism, the hatred of the Jewish people, has been
and remains a blot on the soul of mankind. In this we are in full
agreement. So know also this: anti-Zionist is inherently antisemitic, and
ever will be so..."

Golda Meir once said, "There will never be peace until the
Palestinians love their children more than they hate us."

--- Thunderbird 2.0.0.21 (Windows/20090302)