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    Mind your Ps and Qs: Israeli lawmaker puzzles with Palestine comment

    An Israeli parliamentarian has drawn ire and ridicule after suggesting "Palestine" is a borrowed term that Palestinians themselves cannot pronounce.

    "The letter P doesn't exist in Arabic, so the borrowed term Palestine is worth debating," Anat Berko from Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's Likud party said during a parliamentary debate on Wednesday, according to AFP.

    "There is no 'puh' sound (in Arabic)," she repeated several times.