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Thread #111572 Message #2352339
Posted By: McGrath of Harlow
29-May-08 - 04:01 PM
Thread Name: BS: Israeli Jews/Israeli Arabs
Subject: RE: BS: Israeli Jews/Israeli Arabs
It's as if the conflict is not only geographical or military but also amazingly linguistic!!
Please forgive me if I don't understand your last sentence above.
I'd take the meaning of that sentence of Hugo as pretty self evident. There are significant disagreements about what words to use to refer to people and places, reflecting differences about other issues, such as borders and bloodshed.
As is the case in many disputes where the way such labels are applied tend to indicate the side to which disputants are more aligned with. (For example in relation to Northern Ireland or pre-apartheid South Africa.)