Old essay, but still relevant ...

[Baruch]

I wasn't asking to examples of oxymorons, we could be here all day (or all week) listing those.

Oxymorons all the way down.  Not turtles ;-)

[aitm]

Still here, 3000 years later, more or less. 

The point being...to your claim...is that for awhile the Jews were the exterminators of the Jews.

[Baruch]

The point being...to your claim...is that for awhile the Jews were the exterminators of the Jews.

I don't know what you mean.  Gentile exterminate Jews.  Jews are not Gentiles.  In Judaism, Jews are holy people, and Gentiles are unholy.  Kosher vs treif.

[Cavebear]

Still here, 3000 years later, more or less.  Can Americans claim that some day?

Iraqis are.  Does that count?  Seriously, they stayed from a city "Uruk" to a nation "Iraq".  Not much of a change.

[Baruch]

Iraqis are.  Does that count?  Seriously, they stayed from a city "Uruk" to a nation "Iraq".  Not much of a change.

Coincidental naming.  Uruk is Sumerian.  A long dead city.  Iraq derives from Uruk but in Arabic.  Arabic is related to Babylonian ... the Babylonians being the successors to the Sumerians.  Sumerian and Semitic languages are unrelated (Arabic, Babylonian and Hebrew are all Semitic languages).

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ST_tAduIhWc

The larger Afro-Asiatic language family includes both Semitic and ancient Egyptian languages.

Arabic dialects are the most common modern Semitic language family ... followed by Israeli and then by the Aramiac dialects.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EajTxqZjkfc

Modern Standard Arabic is shared by educated Arabs, along with their local dialect.  It is based on the Quran.  Israeli is derivative from Biblical Hebrew ... like modern English is derived from Old English.