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Cato the Elder6/01/2009 9:50:41 am PDT

re: #740 Kenneth

This is about Israel. In Arabic, the word for peace also means submission.

No it doesn’t. “Islam” means submission. “Salaam” means peace.

The connection is the root S-L-M. Both Hebrew and Arabic are based on such three-letter consonantal roots. But words coming from the same root do not mean the same thing, any more than “doesn’t” means the same thing as “does” because they both stem from “do”.