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To: ketsu
A Christian Armenian whose parents have ties to the West Bank has just as much right to call themselves a Palestinian as anyone else.

just as much right maybe, but would they want to? Does Hockey, for example, even know he's on a list with suicide bombers, an arch terrorist and his wife, a twelve year old boy the arabs maintain was killed by the IDF who is probably still alive (no body, no autopsy, and the last investigation was shown a film wherein the boy was DEFINITELY STILL ALIVE after he was supposedly 'shot')

Somehow I doubt it. I am prepared to write and ask him.

I'm just a little outraged that you used the word arab in your comment:

Oddly enough the Palis, especially the diaspora, used to be one of, if not the most, educated and productive arab group in the world...

There's NO WAY Hockey is an arab! (But then, it's wiki, and you probably didn't read all the names.)

36 posted on 01/23/2008 11:44:51 PM PST by Fred Nerks (FAIR DINKUM!)
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To: Fred Nerks
There's NO WAY Hockey is an arab! (But then, it's wiki, and you probably didn't read all the names.)
Meh... Iran is only 53% Persian, yet people say Iranians are Persian. I can see your argument that it's unfair to lump them all together, but it's really not that big a deal. A quick fact check yields this:

Ethnic groups

Palestinian Arab and other (Kurd, Sharkasian, Armenian) 83%,
Jewish 17% (Except for a small minority of Samaritan Jews near Nablus; most of the Jews in the Palestinian territories are Israeli citizens)

38 posted on 01/24/2008 12:13:15 AM PST by ketsu
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