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Well, we can’t have people claiming Israelis and Palestinians are the same, obviously. What would they have to fight over?
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Bob Morris: So the protesters in Syria should not use violence?
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From the Merriam-Webster dictionary…
Main Entry: Sem·ite
Pronunciation: ‘se-”mIt, esp British ‘sE-”mIt
Function: noun
Etymology: French sémite, from Semitic Shem, from Late Latin, from Greek SEm, from Hebrew ShEm
Date: 1848
1 a : a member of any of a number of peoples of ancient southwestern Asia, including the Akkadians, Phoenicians, Hebrews, and Arabs
b : a descendant of these peoples