It seems to me I heard somewhere that Kevin Gowen wrote in article
<2qhesaFv03a0U14@uni-berlin.de>:

>Don Kirkman wrote:

>> It seems to me I heard somewhere that Kevin Gowen wrote in article
>> <2qh8otFv03a0U6@uni-berlin.de>:

>>>Don Kirkman wrote:

>>>>It seems to me I heard somewhere that Kevin Wayne Williams wrote in
>>>>article <10k4luogju5ngca@news.supernews.com>:

>>>>>Marc Adler wrote:

>>>>>>Kevin Gowen wrote:

>>>>>>>I've always thought of "Middle East" as a geographic descriptor rather 
>>>>>>>than a demographic one.

>>>>>>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.

>> 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.

So just who were those folks who got displaced in 1948, and where have
they settled?

>ask Yassir Arafat.

Not part of *my* topic.  Geography, not demographics.  And it's still
the Near East.
-- 
Don
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