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To: Maurice Winn who wrote (64403)	5/29/2005 8:08:50 PM
From: Moominoid	Read Replies (1) of 74559

hmm - well I'm just back from visiting Israel (via Groningen and Amsterdam in the Netherlands and Umeå in Sweden) and I'm an Ashkenazi Jew (crossed with Australian Anglo-Irish)... as usual you have a rose tinted view of reality (and I think Ashkenazim are an Italian-Middle Eastern mix - otherwise we would be darker than Arabs not lighter - maybe you are mixed up witht he Gypsies being Indian), but most people who have never visited Israel and see it through the eyes of the mass-media would be surprised to see and hear the things I did while there. These periodic reality checks are useful. I was last in Israel in 2002 at the height of the Intifada violence. Now Jerusalem is back to normal or more peaceable crowded and crazy than normal. I visited places like the American Consulate in East Jerusalem, an Apple Computer "store" in Talpiyot, my brother's office at NDS (the grand opening of the new building was planned around Rupert's diary but apparently he won't show in the end), as well as hanging out in Beit Shemesh, restaurants and bookstores in Jerusalem and getting stuck in a big anti-Gaza withdrawal demonstration in a bus for 2 hours. And I did take a trip on the new train to Jerusalem with my brother and go look at the new Archaeological Park south of the Temple Mount (very hot, mid-summer conditions were prevailing). In Beit Shemesh people's main concerns are drugs and youth delinquency hanging out in parks all night. In East Jerusalem the Arabs and Jews at the consulate were all getting on fine in multilingual conversation and walking freely back and forth between east and west Jerusalem. The traffic jams get bigger despite the new highway construction everywhere. Corruption and increasing inequality are big concerns at the national level. Most of the business news in the various newspapers is about scandals and people suing each other. Most of the political news is about corruption and scandals... Umeå is nice reminded me of Canberra and Quebec mixed up. Light all night, lots of fun (I was the guest of honor). Groningen was OK, Amsterdam is a dump IMHO. Big tourist theme park in a swamp. From the air the scenery in that part of Holland is like in central Thailand around Bangkok :) David

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