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Qaddafi’s Dirty Joke on the NY Times?

February 4, 2009 - 11:25 am - by Claudia Rosett
Danny
2009-02-10 07:57:29

You and your friend Yosef Ibrahim really don’t know Arabic. the word Tine (mud)when it is used as derogatory term is more in the Egyptian slang Not Arabic. I’m do fan of Qaddafi the dictator but his point is a combination of the two words (Israel) and (Palestine) Isra-Tine. The first four letters of the word Israel and the last four letters of the word Palestine. Duh. Please let Mr. Ibrahim know that he has to be careful with his comments if he wants us to take him serious.
Mixing jokes and analysis is misleading and that what happen to the writer Ms Rosett.