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  1. What Country/state Are You From?

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    Jeru :

    I saw a few pictures of Tel-Aviv Jaffa. To me, this pretty looked like a North-american city. Well, I didn't feel to see pictures of a underdevelopped country. If we mostly talk of its politics, it's because that media only concentrates on this. In fact, I would like to visit the great east mediteranian cities as Tel-Aviv (Israel) and Beyrouth (Liban). They must be pretty beautiful.

    In Canada, some people still think that Tokyo is a crappy ugly trashful city (like a favelas or such...). And when I hear that, I always wonder how they can think that. (When my former boss knew I was learning Japanese, he said that I should protect myself against their dishes full of *** and that it was all dirty... I was... puzzled for I knew it wasn't such!) So, I wonder what they think of Tel-Aviv, former capital of Israel.

    I don't know how Beirut looks like, but Tel-Aviv is actually rather ugly at ground level, and it was never Israel's capital. (y)

    There is a saying: "Jerusalem is a beautiful city with many ugly corners, and Tel Aviv is an ugly city with many beautiful corners". This is very true. Not enough is being done to clean up Jerusalem and to preserve Tel-Aviv's bauhaus architecture. The latter also unfortunately applies to Haifa; My late grandmother's bauhaus apartment building has so much potential beneath years of neglect.

  9. To The French From France :)

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    First - Happy birthday, nouvelle France! I actually watched the parade on the Champs-Elysees for about half an hour that day, three weeks back.

    I was very moved to hear your stories about saving Jews during WW2, Curufinwe & Klaas.

    The Israeli national holocaust museum, Yad Vashem, commemorates those who have risked their lives to save Jews during the holocaust. In Israel these are called khasidei umot ha'olam, or "the righteous among the nations". If you ever want to commemorate your family members' noble deed, this is how.

    On another note,

    It's is strange that you French celebrate the 14th of July instead of the 4th of July.
    Not all countries have the same holidays as America does. And why should the French bother celebrating an American-only holiday?
    Because it's the law! Heh heh just kidding.

    It may surprise you that not only does the Israeli national holiday not occur on July 4th, it is not set for any specific date on the calendar we know (which is called the Gregorian calendar). Instead, it is set to the 5th of Iyar, which is a date on the Hebrew calendar, and turns out on a different Gregorian date every year.

    (Just for trivia: The Gregorian date of the declaration of Israel's independence is on May 15th).

  10. Boudicca

    in General Discussion

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    One tiny problem: I can understand this concept with the Roman leaders and other Romans in power, however, not all 'Romans' were in for the business/plundering/etc. There's a fine line with judging an entire group of people by their leaders/powerful representatives alone. Every culture can be 'evil, brutal, plundering, and suppressing imperialists,' it all depends on the point of view of the side which you are viewing.

    I was, of course, referring to Rome the empire, the political entity, the army, the establishment. Not Rome the old woman selling groceries in Pompey.

  11. Boudicca

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    Hmm, sounds interesting. Though I do not like the idea of portraiting the Romans as evil, brutal, plundering and supressing imperialists who only want to make the inhabitants of the provinces slaves, which is unfortunatly used pretty often in such movies about rebellions against Rome.

    ...*ahem*...

    While the Romans didn't necessarily want all of their vassal peoples to be their slaves, they were certainly in the imperialism business only for the cash. Also, while they built really nice collosea, aqueducts and roads, they could as sure as heck be "evil, brutal, plundering and suppressing imperialists" when they really set their minds to it.

    Why not partition Iraq?

    in Hall of Intellectuals

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    This partition of Iraq we call in Quebec (maybe also France) Libanisation (that is, turning into "Liban", Lebannon). It is to divide by religion a former State.

    That's interesting.

    In Hebrew political-talk, לבנוניזציה (or in Latin transliteration, levanonizacia) means "the escalation of a conflict to the tragic dimensions of the Lebanese civil war".

    Send my regards to your Lebanese friends :) Lebanon is my favorite Arab country.

  17. Who is your role model?

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    I used to have a math tutor, who I still keep in touch with, who has a great approach to life.

    I'd like to say my parents but I know them too well... I try to avoid their frailties because I have a feeling I'll have them too someday (if I don't have them already) - My dad being rather unsensitive and stubborn and my mom being a little on the hysterical side.

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