Don Kirkman wrote:

> It seems to me I heard somewhere that Kevin Gowen wrote in article
> <2qhesaFv03a0U14@uni-berlin.de>:
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>>Don Kirkman wrote:
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>>>It seems to me I heard somewhere that Kevin Gowen wrote in article
>>><2qh8otFv03a0U6@uni-berlin.de>:
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>>>>Don Kirkman wrote:
>>>>>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"?  
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>>Yes.
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>>>When did Gaza and the
>>>Negev region get consolidated into Jordan?  
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>>They didn't. Of course, there is no such thing as a Palestinian.
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> So just who were those folks who got displaced in 1948, 

People that Jordan (where they belong) and every other country have 
refused to accept.

"We, the Arab nations, condemn Israel for being mean to you people. 
Israel must be destroyed!"
"Hey, let us in so we don't have to hang out with these Jews!"
"Fuck that noise."

> and where have
> they settled?

Israel.

>>ask Yassir Arafat.
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> Not part of *my* topic.  Geography, not demographics.  And it's still
> the Near East.

It's part of the Near East like Narnia is.

- Kevin