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To: Grainne who wrote (16999)1/25/1998 11:56:00 PM
From: j g cordes  Respond to of 108807
 
We're all stepping in it tonight, I'm tired too. We are all imigrants. The Palestinians are ironicly in a ghetto... that says it pretty well.

From Webster:
Function: noun
Inflected Form(s): plural ghettos also ghettoes
Etymology: Italian, from Venetian dialect ghŠto island where Jews were forced to live, literally, foundry
(located on the island), from ghet…r to cast, from Latin jactare to throw -- more at JET
Date: 1611
1 : a quarter of a city in which Jews were formerly required to live
2 : a quarter of a city in which members of a minority group live especially because of social, legal, or
economic pressure
3 a : an isolated group <a geriatric ghetto> b : a situation that resembles a ghetto especially in
conferring inferior status or limiting opportunity