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To: Domestic Church
Nope. It's a reference to Saudi Arabia. They refer to Saudi Arabia as the Arabian Island all the time. The first time I saw it it was confusing. But look at the maps they draw of Saudi Arabia. It's isolated like an Island.

The Arabic word for island is "al-jazeera" and the Arabic words for "peninsula" is "shba al-jazeera". In actual usage, most of the time al-jazeera is used for island or peninsula.

I suppose for clarity's sake I should start translating it as Arabian Peninsula.
1,374 posted on 01/28/2004 4:09:50 PM PST by StillProud2BeFree
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To: StillProud2BeFree
It's a reference to Saudi Arabia.

Agreed. In the image, there are even 2 outlines of SA, in the upper left and right corners, but as someone else said -- how many Americans are still in SA? How will they make that "island" run with American blood?

1,537 posted on 01/28/2004 6:33:07 PM PST by texasbluebell
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