Replying to a message of Bob Klahn to Bob Ackley:

 BA>> Replying to a message of Bob Klahn to Tom Walker:

 TW>>>> There is Really NO SUCH a Thing as a Palestinian. They are
 TW>>>> just a collection of other arab countries trouble makers.

 BK>>>  The notion that any people would endure 6 decades of such
 BK>>>  conditions to make trouble is just a bit absurd. The
 BK>>>  Palestinians were there before Israel. And even Jewish writers
 BK>>>  mentioned them long before the establishment of Israel.
 BK>>>  Relatively few Jews were native to that land before 1947. Lots
 BK>>>  of Arabs were.

 BA>> And every single Arab there was an invader.  There's a
 BA>> reason that one particular nation on the planet is called
 BA>> 'Arabia.'  The fact that those Arabs conquered Palestine,
 BA>> North Africa, a goodly chunk of southeast Europe and most
 BA>> of what is now the Middle East (plus most of Spain) and
 BA>> live there now is irrelevant.

 BK>  Um... other than Europe, the Middle East was occupied by Arabs
 BK>  since... well... Biblical times. That is why both Arabs and Jews  are
 BK> considered semites. And the nation called Arabia is Saudi  Arabia,
 BK> named after the House of Saud, by the British, not the  Saudis. The
 BK> only parts of North Africa I can think of where  the inhabitants are
 BK> not called Arabs are Egypt and Iran.

Two of the tribes native to North Africa are the Tuareg and the Berbers.
IIRC they are nomadic and live in the deserts of Libya and Algeria.

 BK>  Egyptians are called just that,
 BK> and Iranians are called  Persians. Yet we non-North Africans see no
 BK> noticable difference  between them.

 BA>> Note also that today there seems to be an Arab invasion of
 BA>> Europe in progress. A 'peaceful' invasion, but an invasion
 BA>> nevertheless.

 BK>  One that could be ended easily, by overthrowing the
 BK>  dictatorships that rule most of North Africa.

Hardly, most of the 'peaceful' immigrants are from the Middle East, not
North Africa, although a lot of native Algerians have migrated to France.
The invasion I referred to seems to affect mostly Britain, Germany and
northwest Europe - the Netherlands, Belgium and Denmark.

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