Newsgroup: it.politica.internazionale
Titolo: Slightly Smaller Than China

http://www.forward.com/articles/13322/
A reporter in Connecticut whose radio show is syndicated to 300
stations asked me, “If I wanted to visit Israel, are there any modern
hotels to stay in?” I told her that not only would she would she find
modern hotels, but also that high-tech is the engine that drives the
Israeli economy, and that within one hour you can meet Israelis at
Intel who designed the Pentium and Centrino chips used in most of the
world’s computers — as well as the teenage third wife of a Bedouin who
lives in a tent and watches soap operas by satellite dish.
An astounding number of reporters know very little about non-Jewish
Israelis. One reporter asked me, “Why don’t Israelis throw all the
Arabs out of Israel?” He didn’t know that one in five Israeli citizens
is Arab Muslim, that about 25% of Israeli children are Muslim, that
the most common name for an Israeli boy is Muhammad or that Israeli
Muslims are teachers, bus drivers and members of the Knesset — which
has a mosque and a synagogue inside.
A nationally syndicated radio reporter in Washington, D.C., who had
visited Israel argued with me on air that the Druze are Muslims. She
didn’t know that Druze is a religion; that after Druze men are
drafted, they swear in on their secret holy book, or that Muslim
volunteers for the Israel Defense Forces swear in on the Quran.
Another time, while I was in a TV studio with an editor who has worked
for PBS’s “NewsHour,” an Israeli friend arrived to meet me for lunch.
In front of the Israeli, I asked the editor if he knew what a Druze
is. “Yes,” he answered, “they’re terrorists.” Then I introduced the
Jewish editor to the Israeli: Ambassador Reda Mansour, Israel’s consul
general in Atlanta — and a Druze.
Yasser Mansour, an Israeli Muslim pediatrician from Haifa whose
patients are Jewish and Arab children, is profiled in one chapter in
“The Israelis.” While he was in San Francisco for a medical
conference, I took him to an event at a Jewish community center.
During the talk, the speaker asked the audience how many knew what Lag
b’Omer was. No one responded. Yasser, a Sunni Muslim, shyly raised his
hand and explained the meaning of the holiday to some 300 Jews. I’ve
discovered that young Israeli Muslims, Christians and Druze often know
better Hebrew and more about Judaism than many do Jewish Americans.
During Passover last month, a Presbyterian pastor asked me on radio
about this holiday, which all “the Israelites” are celebrating. I had
to explain to him that not all Israelis are Jews — that on Orthodox
Palm Sunday, April 20, many Israeli Greek and Russian Orthodox
Christians were celebrating Easter. In fact, of all Israelis,
Christian Arabs are the most affluent and highly educated per capita,
and the Christian Bible is a fast-growing holy book in the Israeli
army. More than half the former Soviet immigrants are not Jewish, and
the IDF has a small but increasing number of Christian Arab
volunteers.
And Israelis are sometimes no less ignorant about their fellow
Israelis, especially those from different religious, ethnic or
political backgrounds. The host of a weekly New York radio show asked
me what impact the avalanche of immigrants from the former Soviet
Union is having on Israel. When I offered a positive answer, an irate
caller, identifying herself as an ultra-Orthodox Israeli, admonished
me: “Those Russians are prostitutes and mafia, and they’re taking our
jobs.” In fact, these immigrants are an enormous brain gain, giving
Israel the world’s highest number per capita of engineers, scientists
and unemployed orchestra conductors. About 25% of Israel’s high-tech
employees were born in the former Soviet Union.
During a morning “drive-time” interview, a Jewish radio reporter in
New York City asked me, “Why don’t Israelis move to a safer country?”
I was speaking from bed — it was 4 a.m., Pacific Time — and wanted to
pull the blanket over my head. Another Jewish reporter for a
California radio station, trying to end her interview on an upbeat
note, asked, “So, what’s the final solution for the Jews?”
I once gave my university journalism students a multiple-choice exam
with this question: What is the size of Israel? Quite a few chose
“slightly smaller than China.” One of my best students interviewed a
former Auschwitz inmate, and in her article she identified him as a
“survivor of a concentration campus.” “Is ‘campus” a typo?” I asked.
She responded no. Today she’s a reporter on an NPR affiliate.

 world’s computers
IL GOMBLODDO!

 and unemployed orchestra conductors.
solo per informarti che gli unemployed orchestra conductors fanno parte
delle piaghe sociali non delle risorse
quando ne avrai conosciuti una cinquantina concorderai
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"il Logi è goi e quindi, poverino, abituato a credere che
quel che c'è scritto non necessiti di interpretazione"
(il cosiddetto agnosco/nahum/jabo/shampista/delafia/borat/andrea su
it.politica.internazionale, 26/10/06)

 solo per informarti che
ho dato per caso l'errata impressione di essere interessato al tuo
insegamento del disprezzo? Prendi nota di quali sono le bestialità su
Israele che circolano nella stampa e tornatene a grufolare con sergio.
Ed evita, se possibile, riferimenti alla ma famiglia.

 insegamento del disprezzo?
no, sei solo ossessionato. Curati!

 ho dato per caso l'errata impressione di essere interessato
non me ne frega un cazzo
quello che ho voglia di scrivere lo scrivo alla faccia tua e di
tonibaruch
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 quel che c'� scritto non necessiti di interpretazione"
bravo, Logi, ti resta solo da trovare una tradizione millenaria che
insegna che i goim vanno tenuti chiusi nei ghetti, che va applicato
sul loro vestito un segno distintivo, che la loro degradazione è
funzionale a mostrare lo splendore della verità, che se un goi diventa
ebreo pure la sua famiglia lo devi diventare, sennò paga multa, che i
goim non devono diventare cittadini di alcuno Stato e chiamare tutto
questo: abbiamo salvato i goim dalla persecuzione.
Non dubito che con una ricerca su google ti sarà facile trovare questa
roba. Sennò chiedi a qualche tuo correligionario, vedrai che prima o
poi ne trovi uno che ti aiuta.