Don Kirkman wrote:

> It seems to me I heard somewhere that Kevin Wayne Williams wrote in
> article <10k4luogju5ngca@news.supernews.com>:
> 
> 
>>Marc Adler wrote:
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>>>Kevin Gowen wrote:
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> 
>>>>I've always thought of "Middle East" as a geographic descriptor rather 
>>>>than a demographic one.
> 
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>>>I bet a whole lot of Israelis would be surprised to find out they're
>>>Middle Easterners in Kevin Gowen's Big Book of What's What.
> 
> 
>>Are you joshing? When people talk about trouble in the Middle East, you 
>>think that Israel *isn't* a part of what they are talking about?
> 
> 
> I'd have put Israel, Turkey, Armenia, Syria, Lebanon, and Jordan
 > more in the Near East, myself, but East IS East and
> West is European, so . . . .  Orientals all, from the viewpoint of the
> Greeks and Romans who named 'em.  "Lands of the Rising Sun" indeed!

I fixed your spelling error for you.

- Kevin