[Info-vax] Trouble in paradise?

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In article <n7d8br$h8m$1 at news.albasani.net>, Jan-Erik Soderholm <jan-erik.soderholm at telia.com> writes:
>Den 2016-01-16 kl. 11:26, skrev Henry Crun:
>> On 16/01/16 10:45, Richard Maher wrote:
>>> On 1/12/2016 5:35 PM, Jan-Erik Soderholm wrote:
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> The second couse of todays problems in the area is the creation of
>>>> a new country out of the blue in 1947 and the politics from that
>>>> country since then. That had created many of todays "terrorists".
>>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/israel-bans-swedish-minister-over-call-for-palestinian-deaths-investigation-a6812586.html
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Clearly a entire nation of rabid anti-Semites. I just hope Donald slaps an
>>> embargo on IKEA and renames Swedish meat-balls - FREEDOM meat-balls!
>>>
>>> Any criticism of the glorious fat fascist pig that is Bibi and his SS
>>> should be
>>> immediately slapped down by all US politicians relying on money from the
>>> Jewish
>>> lobby and misguided fundamentalist Christians to get elected.
>>>
>>
>> I do hope nobody has the opinion that I am a Bibi supporter.
>> OTOH read what Mark Twain had to say about the area that is now Israel back
>> in 1869.
>> <quote>
>> ...silent plain .. a desolation .. we never saw a human being on the whole
>> route .. hardly a tree or shrub anywhere. Even the olive tree and the
>> cactus, those fast friends of a worthless soil, had almost deserted the
>> country...
>> </quote>
>>
>
>What is "Bibi" ??

Not a what but a who.  Benjamin "Bibi" Netanyahu -- Prime Minister of Israel.



>And what has 1869 to do with anything today?
>Or for that matter, something that might
>have happened over 2000 years ago?
>
>And the quote is worthless anyway without some facts
>of what he (Twain) was talking about.

Twain's comment was about his travels through the middle east.  The quote is
from "The Innocents Abroad".

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