-Caveat Lector-
In a message dated 08/15/2001 11:13:16 AM Eastern Daylight Time,
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<< The point of this sentence is that Palestinians are not culturally distinct
among the Arab community at large--except of course in name only. In any
case, and were the "culture and ways" of the Arab community at large not
obvious, they are (stereo)typically strict, if not fundamentalistic,
adherents of a moral code; they are honorably, if not obsessively, bound by
social contracting (i.e., their word is their bond); they are still
somewhat nomadic. >>
I don't think many of the inhabitants of Palestine were ever nomadic. And
like the residents of Europe, the peoples of the Middle East are divided by
the boundaries of their respective countries. I never learned to tell a Turk
from a Syrian or even a Greek just by looking. In many cases, even the
languages are the same. Can the Israeli tell a Jordanian from a Palestinian
without asking? If I was going by looks alone, I would not be able to swear
who was a Jew and who was a Moslem unless they were wearing specific
headgear. I would also say that they all share good and bad characteristics
with their fellow human beings of whatever race, culture or religion. And no
those human beings haven't gotten better no matter what Aldous Huxley says.
Prudy
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