Peter the Sub Guy
2009-01-07 10:01:32
52. Ian Thorpe wrote (wrongly):
Whenever anybody criticises Israel’s behaviour in Palestine the rabid right in America always start to scream about anti-semitism. Unfortunately the Palestinians, including Hamas, are Semites so in fact the violence is Semite on Semite.
Peter responds: No, the Palestinians are Arabs. They did not appear in the region until the 7th century. The Semites were there centuries if not thousands of years before the Arabs appeared and tried to steal the land.
