>>>We can disagree about this. I just know I have seen the phrase Middle East used to a lot to refer to Israel and its Arab neighbors. Until Dragan started using the tag line it had never occurred to me that they are in Asia.
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>>>It's OK, there are more important things than this.
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>>More important things here on the UT? You're kidding, right? :o) You got my interest piqued:
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>>http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Middle_East
>>http://www.worldatlas.com/webimage/countrys/me.htm
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>>I particularly like this line below the map on the wikipedia link:
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>>The Middle East can have varying definitions and boundaries :o)
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>As we have clearly seen ;-)

But Asia is strictly delineated by the Ural mountain chain, Black Sea, Mediterranean sea, Suez canal, and then the surrounding seas, from Red sea to Indian Ocean, Pacific, Bering straight and that large cocktail around North pole.