Likely 2016 presidential applicant Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) served as the keynote speaker for the AIPAC New England Leadership Supper in Boston's Conference Heart over the weekend and in accordance to investigative journalist Uri Blau experienced this to say about Center East politics: "Al Qaeda, Al Nusra, Al Qaeda in the Arab Peninsula... Almost everything that starts with 'Al' in the Center East is undesirable information."
As Blau details out in his piece and Graham probably could have figured out on his possess, "Al" is the Arabic word for "the" and usually precedes correct nouns. For instance, the media business Al Jazeera implies "The Peninsula," referring to the Arab Peninsula region.
Does Graham mean to say that all Arab teams and companies are "poor news" or did he just not know what he was suggesting? We arrived at out to the senator's spokesman and have not however read anything again.
Mediaite visitors could be common with the senator's frequent "I was just creating a joke" protection. Soon after all, that is the tactic he utilized after he gained flak for stating that, as president, he "would literally use the military" to maintain Congress in D.C. for essential votes.
But offered the professional-Israel viewers of likely donors to which he was speaking, one particular has to ponder if they ended up laughing or cheering. The report produced its way to Israel's left-leaning newspaper Haaretz, which also drew attention to the inherent "linguistic" problems with Graham's remarks.
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