Opher, good to hear from someone actually living there! Were those Inter 20 pictures posted a couple months back yours? It looked like a nice place to sail.
Timbo, the I20 pictures were taken on the Sea of Galilee, about an hour inland from our club at Sdot Yam, on the Med coast. I’ve attached a picture from last Saturday of our N6.0 off the 2000 year old Roman city and port of Caesarea, less than a mile North of us.
But back to politics…
Good to hear a voice of sanity from Israel. The news coverage we get up here is quite pro-palestinian,
Rolf, It never ceases to amaze me how, with hundreds of millions of Muslims surrounding us, many of whom are quite radical and would love to have all Israelis take a very long swim, we still come out the oppressors. Maybe that’s the same press busy blaming America for attacking “innocent” countries instead of urging European leaders to find creative but effective ways to protect our way of life from a rapidly growing threat.
Because I do agree with Wouter in theory:
Have them develop themselves into prosperous nations. Did the trick for us and the Catholic church was every bit as influential as the Imans are right now.
I just think their leaders may need some “convincing” before they relinquish unlimited power to a thriving, secular, democratic lifestyle, and happily join the West.
And speaking of Hammas, their leader Haled Mash’al was warmly received in Teheran today. Wonder what that does to my optimistic scenario from yesterday?
