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Qaddafi’s Dirty Joke on the NY Times?

February 4, 2009 - 11:25 am - by Claudia Rosett
Mabruk
2009-02-08 22:32:23

I disagree with the comment made about Isra-”Tine” being thought of as the word dirt = “T’een”, if So, can we say the same about Pales”tine”..Of course not! This is just a play on words by your friend Youssif and you are a fool for publishing it. Also, Gadafi has never made the same use when referring to Capitalism or Socialism before. That is just not accurate. As per “Isratine”; the idea was to borrow some letters from the two names for the same place; however, this was never the main issue, the name that is. The issue here, is to have two people live in one state with equal rights, democracy that is. As the west have loosely dubbed Israel as being one..