Fly to Israel - face the security checks. The staff in Rome Fiumicino are Israelis, not Romans (judging by their command of Italian) and little surprises them. Most of the security is question and answer-based: where are you going? why? who suggetsed that? why did they? how do you know them? how long? where are you staying? how did you arrange that? .....
It all boils down to "Who you? Who with? Why you?"
Mr HG was his courteous, long-suffering traveler, patient, self: after all he's been up against a wall at gunpoint in some countries (machine guns in Zambia), stranded in Chop with the Soviets saying 'Leave!" and the bordering countries saying" It's Friday night, We're shut!" The poor chap has suffered travelling with Angels for years and years - "What do you mean it's Turkish? All right, a hole in the floor with footprints, but is there loo paper? But he cracked in Rome.
"Why me? Why have they invited me? Pause, "Because I'm famous, famous for this sort of thing."
Collapse of stout, Israeli security party. Waved on.
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Famous for being harassed by Israelis? Or...? :-)
wv : patme ... what can I say?
No Elby, he does the sort of thing they wanted him to talk about.
He said the people he spoke with in Israel are less than pleased with Obama because Obama undercut the Arab stance on resettling the Palestinians and paying proper compensation but accepting there's no other solution. It's not as if the Israelis are ever going to go away, is it. But Obama upset everything just as the resettlement and adequate compensation solution was being tip-toed towards. What he did that for is beyond me.
(did it really say patme? There is a gremlin doing stuff with the wvs, Nomad has mentioned it before.)
Yes it did say "patme" and ys, Obama is clueless it would seem. He should have stuck to being a community organiser, methinks.
I hope Lilith decides to take a view.
HG: Please give Elby a nice big pat. He needs it desperately after having suffered the performances of his beloved (but overpaid and pretty useless) Manchester City footy team recently.
Elby: Pat Pat - here's one from me to be going on with.
PS: my wv is ' redusing '. Not sure what the implications of that might be!
Nomad, I thought the wv went from me to Elby but you think it goes from Elby to me, he somehow calls it up when he comments.
On reflection, yours must be the more reasonable viewpoint, where wv is a form of commenter's crie de coeur. But, then, unless the commenter mentions it, it is known only to them. That seems right. Who would want all their cries public?
HG: That indeed is right, but what is uncanny about it is that far too often the supposedly random wv somehow connects to what is written by commenters. It is already up waiting before anyone types a word, so just how it knows what one is going to type about is eerie. The only solution is to confuse it by reverting back to the post and then hitting the comments button again before typing. That usually fools it... :-}
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