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Advice for tourists?

Steven Boozer ([email protected])

• From: Steven Boozer <[email protected]>
• Subject: Advice for tourists?
• Date: Wed, 20 Sep 2006 15:11:11 -0500

This paragraph caught my eye from an article by Joel Mowbray:

   Fights can erupt anytime, anywhere.  Israelis yell at strangers,
   neighbors, and friends.  Fighting aside, normal conversation is
   often terse, even brusque. Perhaps owing to their spoken language
   - Hebrew, I've been told, has one-fifth the working vocabulary of
   English ­ Israelis are blunt, to put it nicely.  Even tourists are
   not immune.  At the hotel, for example, the chef responded to my
   request for extra cheese on my omelette by barking that there was
   already enough.

Read the whole thing at 
http://www.frontpagemag.com/Articles/ReadArticle.asp?ID=24491




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