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Turkey issues arrest warrant for Netanyahu, who calls Erdogan an 'antisemitic dictator' (www.lemonde.fr)

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The Turkish arrest warrant accuses Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of 'crimes against humanity, genocide, aggravated deprivation of liberty,' and 'torture,' linked to Israel's treatment of activists from a Gaza-bound aid flotilla.

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[–] bedwyr@piefed.ca 5 points 1 day ago

It never made sense really, semitic people are not relegated to jewish people, they are a minority. Arabs are all semetic (Iran eastward are "aryan.") Descended from the phoencians and later the carthaginians and the like.