Don Kirkman wrote:

> It seems to me I heard somewhere that Kevin Gowen wrote in article
> <2qh8otFv03a0U6@uni-berlin.de>:
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>>Don Kirkman wrote:
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>>>It seems to me I heard somewhere that Kevin Wayne Williams wrote in
>>>article <10k4luogju5ngca@news.supernews.com>:
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>>>>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.
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>>>>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?
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>>>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!
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>>I fixed your spelling error for you.
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> Equating "Jordan" with "the Palestinian areas"?  

Yes.

> When did Gaza and the
> Negev region get consolidated into Jordan?  

They didn't. Of course, there is no such thing as a Palestinian. Just 
ask Yassir Arafat. However, he may be too busy bombing children or 
giving his Nobel Peace Prize acceptance speech to answer your call.

- Kevin