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Backpackers baffled by Bethlehem sieg
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| Wednesday, 17 April, 2002, 21:57 GMT 22:57 UK
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Posted on 04/19/2002 7:30:50 PM PDT by gd124
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posted on
04/19/2002 7:30:50 PM PDT
by
gd124
To: Askel5
Reminds me of the movie, "Mystery Train."
Elvisa! Cawl Pewkins!
To: gd124
These two are definitely hardcore tourist.
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posted on
04/19/2002 7:46:20 PM PDT
by
ASTM366
To: gd124; Alouette; dennisw; dighton; beowolf; veronica
Israel has been keeping up the psychological pressure on those holed up inside the church, bombarding it with ear-splitting, shrieking noises which aim to disorientate those inside. They got the Rosi O of the West Bank on tape Ullululululu-ing them into insanity?!!! Good going IDF, aim it right back at 'em!
To: gd124
One can easily imagine the scene: Japanese couple traveling without the benefit of media; the taxi driver willing to take their Yen but who couldn't be bothered to even try to tell them that it is dangerous there.
To: gd124
"We have been on the road for the last six months and we did not watch television or
read the newspapers," Mr Makano told reporters.
So much for the ascendancy of The Empire of The Rising Sun.
I don't think we need to worry about Japan buying up the USA if this represents
even a small percentage of the new generation of Japanese.
(and some articles I've read would indicate they might be the poster children for
the long, slow, inexorable decline of Japan)
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posted on
04/19/2002 7:55:36 PM PDT
by
VOA
To: VOA
Or maybe, apart for localized areas of destruction, the West Bank hasn't been reduced to rubble as the press would have us believe.
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posted on
04/19/2002 7:57:07 PM PDT
by
Henk
To: gd124
We were in Portugal with our kids one summer when they had Communist anti-colonial riots and a cholera epidemic. Aside from a few red scrawls on the wall, we didn't notice a thing.
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posted on
04/19/2002 7:57:30 PM PDT
by
Cicero
To: gd124
I wish I knew how to say "dunderheads" in Japanese.
God Bless them though. To be so oblivious, so carefree, so uninvolved, so unaware, so into themselves...
makes one wonder is it truly possible, this happening is as it is stated?
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posted on
04/19/2002 8:09:39 PM PDT
by
harpo11
To: Cicero
Sounds far-fetched to me, like the media set this up.
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posted on
04/19/2002 8:13:59 PM PDT
by
Ciexyz
To: Thinkin' Gal
Sheeps eyes and a giant Dorito!
My favorite!!
To: Tennessee_Bob;slip18;coteblanche;argh;cyberliberty;meeknming;xsmommy;Socal_parrot
They were rescued when journalists in flak jackets saw them and pointed out the bullet-holes across buildings, the Israeli tanks and rubble which littered the streets.
It was then that the couple decided to call off their trip to one of Christianity's holiest shrines.
smart move
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posted on
04/19/2002 8:23:37 PM PDT
by
TxBec
To: gd124
Poor kids. Can you imagine spending 6 months on the road just to see the place where Christ was born only to arrive while it's in the middle of a seige?
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To: VOA; d4now
I heard two interesting pieces of investment advice about the future recently. The first piece was that Japan will be a hot place to put your money, in about 10 years. Their demographics are similar to ours, but their "baby boom" is a generation behind ours. This means the earning potential and compounding investment gains will start to ramp up in about 10 years, and we'll want to have a piece of that action.
The other one was that the hot investment for the future is a rice farm. The population in Asia eats mainly rice, but production cannot keep up with population growth. Buy a rice farm now, and in 10-20 years you will be making a fortune on it selling rice to Asia.
To: gd124
"We have been on the road for the last six months and we did not watch television or read the newspapers," Mr Makano told reporters. Adventure tourism has its own attractions.
Don't believe everything you read in the papers.
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posted on
04/19/2002 8:44:08 PM PDT
by
Romulus
To: gd124
I wonder what the next stop on their "Hot Spots of 2002" tour is.....Afghanistan...Cincinnati?
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posted on
04/19/2002 8:44:16 PM PDT
by
ZinGirl
To: gd124
I wish I could have spent the Clinton years in this kind of state of blissful detachment.
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posted on
04/19/2002 8:49:13 PM PDT
by
exit82
To: gd124
Well I felt like I was in a battlezone when I was in Bethlehem on Christmas Eve in 1977. The Arab men were sexually molesting every American woman they could get their disgusting hands on. Don't ever talk to me about the poor Arabs of Bethlehem.
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posted on
04/19/2002 8:59:09 PM PDT
by
Hildy
To: Hildy
Well I felt like I was in a battlezone when I was in Bethlehem on Christmas Eve in 1977. The Arab men were sexually molesting every American woman they could get their disgusting hands on.
I've never been there but I've heard such stories from many western women travellers I've met, regarding any place where Arab men clot the streets. You will not read such stories in the western press, however, 'cause don't ya know? Islam is a peaceful
and a civilized religion.
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