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One of the seemingly trivial, but I think somewhat important, warrants for the claim was the capitalization: "The Israel Lobby" (as opposed to "The Israel lobby"), which casts it as precisely the sort of uniform and conspiratorial entity that is promulgated by the protocols.

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  1. transitive verb To demand, ask for, or take as one's own or one's due: claim a reward; claim one's luggage at the airport carousel.
  2. transitive verb To take in a violent manner as if by right: a hurricane that claimed two lives.
  3. transitive verb To state to be true, especially when open to question; assert or maintain: claimed he had won the race; a candidate claiming many supporters.
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  • Your claim was a much more sweeping one, if I may quote: —  RealClimate
  • Even though this claim is an outright, vacuous lie, which lacks all notions of credibility, perhaps we should ask why McCain, as chairman, helped fund the spokesperson for Yasser Arafat's organization? —  altmuslim
  • The basis for their claim is a 2007 study performed by a group of researchers at the MIT. —  AlterNet.org Main RSS Feed
  • The basis for his claim is a 2007 study performed by a group of researchers at the MIT. —  The Full Feed from HuffingtonPost.com
  • Connected with this claim is the first brush of an analysis of how social actors, when confronted with the experience of the results of their combined actions, might respond to those experiences, shaping their actions adaptively but still treating the forces to which they are responding as an "environment" that lies outside their control. —  Roughtheory.org
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  1. Middle English claimen, from Old French clamer, claim-, from Latin clāmāre, to call; see kelə-2 in Indo-European roots.

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  1. Early modern English also claime, clame, from Middle English claimen, cleimen, clamen, from Old French claimer, cleimer, clamer, call, cry out, claim, challenge, = Spanish llamar, formerly clamar, = Portuguese clamar = Italian chiamare, call, name, send for, clamare, speak loud, bawl, from Latin clamare, call, cry out, connected with calare, call (see calends), = Greek καλεῖν, call, convoke. From the same Latin verb come clamor, acclaim, declaim, exclaim, proclaim, reclaim, etc.; and class, calendar, ecclesiastic, etc., are related.
  2. Early modern English also claime, clame, from Middle English claime, clame, cleyme, from Old French claim, clam = Provencal clam (Middle Latin clameum), a challenge, = Portuguese clama (obsolete), a protest; from the verb.
  3. English dial., also clame, from Middle English *claimen, *cleimen (cf. adjective claimous, Middle English cleymous), variant (after Icelandic Norwegian kleima) of clemen, modern dial. cleam, q. v. Cf. glaim.
 

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