# What is the future of Egyptian-Israeli relations?

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**Created:** [June 24, 2012, 7:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-future-of-egyptian-israeli-relations/626173 "2012-06-24T19:42:59Z")\
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**Post date:** [June 29, 2012, 10:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-future-of-egyptian-israeli-relations/626173/28 "2012-06-29T22:55:46Z")

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> [@florez](#):
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> I remember a few years ago reading that Prince Harry was sent to an army racial/diversity awareness course after referring to someone as a “Paki”

Paki is certainly considered a racial slur in the UK.

In Harry’s case, he clearly didn’t show any animosity and clearly thought of the man as his friend and I don’t think he was anymore racist than the average person, however that doesn’t mean that it’s not a racial slur anymore than the fact that some white people used to talk affectionately about “our niggers” meant that nigger isn’t a racial slur.

Similarly, Jesse Jackson most certainly wasn’t an anti-Semite, but that didn’t mean that referring to New York City as “hymietown” wasn’t a racial(or ethnic for the pedants) slur.

Also, I don’t think Prince Harry had to go to any racial/diversity awareness type course(that’s more an American thing), though he was forced to apologize and it was clearly embarrassing for him.

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