Opinion  Dry Bones
Dry Bones
Yaakov Kirschen
Published: 13.06.07, 16:53
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1. Technically,
Hamburger ,   Hamburg   (06.13.07)
...an arab cannot be an anti-semite, because they are also part of the semitic race. But still it's a cute cartoon. :-)
2. #1 Arabs use Semitic language but ethnically are Hamites
Joe   (06.13.07)
learn what anti-semitism means: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anti-semitism#Definitions_of_the_term
3. In the Hamas' charter they call to kill JEWS
Guy   (06.13.07)
4. Hamburger, the term 'semitic' was invented in Germany
Jake   (06.13.07)
and so was the term 'anti-Semitic', as a 'polite' way of saying 'Judenhass'. It never had anything to do with Arabs, though they now use it as an excuse to say they cannot possibly be anti-Semitic. The notion of a 'Semitic race' is without foundation, and the labelling of various related languages as 'Semitic' is a relatively recent invention. Incidentally, the EU-member state of Malta speaks a language very similar to Arabic, but the Maltese would take you to task if you said they were descended from Arabs.
5. #1 - Arafat used that logic, but its wrong
(06.13.07)
Anti-semitism refers ONLY to hatred of Jews. It does not include Arabs and never has. In fact, the word 'Semitic' was devised only in relation to language. Here is the Wikipedia on it http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Semitic And yes, Arabs are VERY anti-semitic.
6. anti-semitism
danny ,   jerusalem israel   (06.14.07)
The word anti-semitic was invented to indicate that "we have nothing against Jews. But as Semites they belong in the middle east. Not in our part of the world." The Arabs claim that they "have nothing against Jews but that as europeans they don't belong in our part of the world." Same logic same hatred danny
7. Dry Bones
Avraham ,   Netivot   (06.14.07)
Love the "Dry Bones" cartoons, keep on publishing them.
8. i do not like the dry .... of any thing
hasna ,   jerusalem   (06.14.07)
so i see the not dry here ... the two are not arabs nor palastinians but hammas // so the undry joke is the jews thinking ,not the hammas one ,,it is sure hamas look to the enemy as an enemy // so look what they did with fath lastly
9. if any one remove hamas from their heads and rub the convers
hasna ,   jerusalem   (06.14.07)
and aske me to guess who are and what they are saying // i should say they are two jews / speaking about beniets of money // it is my feeling /may be it is becouse the cartoon is by a jew but i read it by the eye of not a jew // this is not antisimitic but the real feel .believe me // many events is real but the jews say about all antisemitism
10. #2, #3, #5 - Thanks, I did not know that. :-)
Hamburger ,   Hamburg   (06.14.07)
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