Posted on 02/12/2016 9:59:22 AM PST by Olog-hai
An Israeli parliamentarian has drawn ire and ridicule after suggesting "Palestine" is a borrowed term that Palestinians themselves cannot pronounce.
"The letter P doesn't exist in Arabic, so the borrowed term Palestine is worth debating," MK Anat Berko (Likud) said during a parliamentary debate on Wednesday night. [...]
In Arabic, the word is written with an F and is pronounced "Falesteen." Palestinian Arabs not fluent in English often use the letter B as a substitute for P when speaking the language. [...]
"Don't you have a brain?" MK Tamar Zandberg, from the left-wing Meretz party, shouted during the session. ...
(Excerpt) Read more at israelnationalnews.com ...
The P is now on the NY streets.
In more ways than one.
Spelling check Alert: Should be Failsteen.
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