Israeli Lawmaker Says Palestinian Nation Doesn’t Exist, Because Arabic Doesn't Have 'P'

[azurnoir]

A Likud lawmaker was met with derision in the Knesset plenum, after saying that that there was no such thing as a Palestinian people, since Arabic doesn't have the consonant "P."

"I want to go back to history, what is our place here, about Jerusalem, about Palestine, when like we said, Arabic doesn't even have 'P,' so this loan-word also merits scrutiny," MK Anat Berko said in a Knesset address on Wednesday.

While the lawmaker was correct in saying that Arabic doesn't have a "P" sound, the word for "Palestine" in Arabic begins with the consonant "F," the same as in Hebrew, and is pronounced: "Falastin."

"What? Did everyone hear this? Are you an idiot?" Meretz MK Tamar Zandberg called out, to which Berko responded: "These are the facts. I'll send it to you, everything's alright."

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[bemildred]

1. Brilliant argument. nt

[oberliner]

2. "Are you an idiot?" ought to be directed to Republicans in our own Congress

On a much more frequent basis.

Glad that Israeli lawmaker did such a nice job of calling out this moron.

[bemildred]

3. Hey Azurnoir, this is interesting:

A New Direction for Lebanon's Muslim Brothers

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Caught in the sectarian crossfire?

In the context of rising tensions between Sunnis and Shia domestically and regionally, one of the Jamaa al-Islamiya’s most important challenges and responsibilities will be to prevent criticism of the Syrian regime and Hezbollah from devolving into sectarian violence. Surprisingly, although the Jamaa is Sunni, until the Syria crisis it had a long-standing relationship with the Shia militia. The Jamaa al-Islamiya’s political platform states the group’s desire to “go beyond sectarian disagreements” to “develop points of convergences between Sunnis and Shia— and they are many and great.” Its military wing, Quwwat al-Fajr, and Hezbollah coordinated several operations against Israel in the past. In fact, some Jamaa officials, such as Fathi Yakan and Abdallah Teriaqi, were so close to Hezbollah by 2006 that they defected and formed the Islamic Action Front, a Sunni group tightly linked to the Shia militia.

Relations between the Jamaa al-Islamiya and Hezbollah started deteriorating in the late 2000s, but it was the birth of the Syrian crisis in 2011 that dealt those relations what seems like a fatal blow. The rank and file of the former enthusiastically embraced the Syrian revolution, at first even providing financial support to rebels, while the latter intervened militarily on the regime’s side. Tension between the members from the two Lebanese Islamist organizations soon broke out. In December 2013, gunmen stopped the car of one of the Jamaa al-Islamiya’s top clerics and beat his driver in an area often considered to be one of Hezbollah’s strongholds in Beirut. Months later, a Jamaa activist was shot after writing a song critical of the Shia militia’s role in the regime-backed offensive on Yabrud, a rebel bastion at the Syrian-Lebanese border.

http://carnegieendowment.org/syriaincrisis/?fa=62740

No idea what it means, but I have read a couple lately that indicate the MB may get some rehabilitation, and Erdogan wants "unfettered access" to Gaza too.

[azurnoir]

4. Not to mention some truly 'revolutionary' coordination on an international level

this revised Brotherhoods be used as a counter to Hezbollah/Assad on s large scale?

[bemildred]

5. Yes, something like that.

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Any clues? I haven't been following it much, but I thought you might know more.

Edit: I mean that piece reeks of liberal interventionist delusion, all that talk about annoying people in such a nuanced way that they don't get annoyed, but I've seen indications in the Arab media that MB is being rehabilitated, and I thought that might lead to some changes in Gaza.

[MisterP]

6. it just means "terrifying Cretan invaders"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline_of_the_name_%22Palestine%22
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philistines
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tribe_of_Dan
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Denyen
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Achaeans_%28Homer%29
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sea_Peoples

TROY WAS ONLY THE BEGINNING
EVERY COUNTRY IN EUROPE AND THE MIDEAST ATTACKED EGYPT AT ONCE
EGYPT WON