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To: Elroy who wrote (325779)	2/13/2007 10:00:58 AM
From: combjelly	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1578148

"Semitic denotes a variety of people, including the mysterious Moabites" Nothing mysterious about them. They went up against Israel and lost. You mess with God's Chosen People at your own peril. en.wikipedia.org

To: Elroy who wrote (325779)	2/13/2007 10:09:15 AM
From: Road Walker	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1578148

Whatever...

To: Elroy who wrote (325779)	2/14/2007 1:17:45 AM
From: tejek	Respond to of 1578148

Obsessing? It's a free form discussion board, right? I'm not obsessed with it. I'm just curious why you (or anyone) says anti-Semitic rather than anti-Jewish. If you don't know, that's fine. Based on Wikepedia's definition, Semitic denotes a variety of people, including the mysterious Moabites, and it seems a strange term since all of us know Jewish people and few of us know anyone who claims to be a Semite. Originally, anti Semiticism was considered a bias against any people who were considered Semites......the term included several Mideastern sects in addition to the Jews....Arabs, the Maronites, Druze, Aramaics, the Alawites, Assyrians, Copts etc.......all sects that exist in modern day Middle East. During the 19th and 20th centuries, Semites were considered to be a race separate from whites although some scientists of the time might have thought they fell broadly into the caucasian race. Nonetheless, most Europeans considered Semitic people to be inferior.....this coincided with Europe's ascendency in the industrial age and was reinforced by the Ottoman Empire's slow decline, mired in corruption and indifference. Hence, the concept of being anti-Semitic took hold and slowly began to focus on the Jews. It was one of the reasons why the Jews began to look at Palestine in the late 19th century as an alternative to Europe. By the 1930s, Hitler took it to the next level....working overtime to prove that Semites and more specifically the Jews were of a separate race, inferior to Europeans in general and more specifically the nordic races of northern Europe. Its during that time that anti Semiticism took on the full connotation of being anti-Jewish. Don't ask me why they didn't they say anti-Jewish instead of anti-Semitic. I wasn't around then. Ironically, I read that recently they determined the gene pool of Europe almost exclusively has its origins with the Semites of the Middle East....probably CJ knows more about the subject.