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<rss version="2.0" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:slash="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/slash/" xmlns:wfw="http://wellformedweb.org/CommentAPI/"><channel><title>Cultural Anecdotes, Similarities and Differences.</title><link>http://www.englishforums.com/English/CulturalAnecdotesSimilarities-Differences/Forum19.htm</link><description>All topics related to cultural interaction. Please register if you wish to post here.</description><dc:language>en</dc:language><generator>CSMOD (Build: 3107.25864)</generator><item><title>Re: On This Day ...</title><link>http://www.englishforums.com/English/OnThisDay/9/dnxzj/Post.htm#318572</link><pubDate>Mon, 22 Jan 2007 23:39:08 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="true">946f00bb-57d3-4b7b-a9a2-059b5341af52:318572</guid><dc:creator>Anonymous</dc:creator><slash:comments>0</slash:comments><comments>http://www.englishforums.com/English/OnThisDay/9/dnxzj/Post.htm#318572</comments><wfw:commentRss>http://www.englishforums.com/English/comments19-318572.xml</wfw:commentRss><description>&lt;P&gt;"On March 10, 1948, in Tel Aviv, eleven men had a meeting in the Red House headed by Ben Gurion. The eleven decided to expel one million Palestinians from historical Palestine. No minutes were taken, but many memoirs were written about that fateful meeting. A systematic ethnic cleansing of Palestine began and within seven months the Zionists managed to expel one half of all the Palestinian people from their villages and towns."-Dr. Ilan Pappe.&lt;BR&gt;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;div style="clear:both;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</description></item><item><title>Re: On This Day ...</title><link>http://www.englishforums.com/English/OnThisDay/9/dnxcp/Post.htm#318527</link><pubDate>Mon, 22 Jan 2007 21:31:03 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="true">946f00bb-57d3-4b7b-a9a2-059b5341af52:318527</guid><dc:creator>Anonymous</dc:creator><slash:comments>0</slash:comments><comments>http://www.englishforums.com/English/OnThisDay/9/dnxcp/Post.htm#318527</comments><wfw:commentRss>http://www.englishforums.com/English/comments19-318527.xml</wfw:commentRss><description>&lt;BLOCKQUOTE&gt;&lt;table width="85%"&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class="txt4"&gt;&lt;img src="/Themes/default/images/icon-quote.gif"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;strong&gt;Anonymous wrote:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class="quoteTable"&gt;&lt;table width="100%"&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td width="100%" valign="top" class="txt4"&gt;
&lt;P&gt;In a March 31, 1977 interview with the Amsterdam-based newspaper &lt;I&gt;Dagblad de Verdieping Trouw&lt;/I&gt;, PLO executive committee member Zahir Muhseâin said:&lt;BR&gt;&lt;BR&gt;&lt;B&gt;The Palestinian people does not exist. The creation of a Palestinian state is only a means for continuing our struggle against the state of Israel for our Arab unity. In reality today there is no difference between Jordanians, Palestinians, Syrians and Lebanese. Only for political and tactical reasons do we speak today about the existence of a Palestinian people, since Arab national interests demand that we posit the existence of a distinct âPalestinian peopleâ to oppose Zionism. For tactical reasons, Jordan, which is a sovereign state with defined borders, cannot raise claims to Haifa and Jaffa, while as a Palestinian, I can undoubtedly demand Haifa, Jaffa, Beer-Sheva and Jerusalem. However, the moment we reclaim our right to all of Palestine, we will not wait even a minute to unite Palestine and Jordan&lt;/B&gt;&lt;/P&gt;
&lt;P&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;/BLOCKQUOTE&gt;&lt;/P&gt;
&lt;P&gt;There is nothing called "the palestinian ppl doesn't exist"&amp;nbsp; we just got a different name later that's it, the name has changed only, if ppl have a big problem with that name call us whatever u want call us the arabs who are living under the israelis occupation i don't care &amp;nbsp;but we do exist &lt;img src="/emoticons/emotion-2.gif" alt="Big Smile [:D]" /&gt;or we'll be called the arabs who are living under the israeli occupation? or wut?&amp;nbsp;it's such a nonsene to say "palestinian doesn't exist or as so we would say israelis doesn't exist but it's not that u don't exist the issue is that u were called jews and after 1948 u became israelis but it doesn't make any sense to say israelis don't exist don't u think so? &lt;BR&gt;his words doesn't make any sense &lt;img src="/emoticons/emotion-7.gif" alt="Tongue Tied [:S]" /&gt; &lt;/P&gt;
&lt;P&gt;ya they were divided each one due to the occupation they had simple really just like anywere else oh please tell me is there any country that was called by the same name that it was called by 5000 years before, was europe divided 5000 years before?&amp;nbsp;and what divide them? their different life different circumistances having a different situation simple really it happens anywhere&lt;img src="/emoticons/emotion-7.gif" alt="Tongue Tied [:S]" /&gt;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;div style="clear:both;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</description></item><item><title>Re: On This Day ...</title><link>http://www.englishforums.com/English/OnThisDay/9/dnxcn/Post.htm#318525</link><pubDate>Mon, 22 Jan 2007 21:10:24 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="true">946f00bb-57d3-4b7b-a9a2-059b5341af52:318525</guid><dc:creator>Anonymous</dc:creator><slash:comments>0</slash:comments><comments>http://www.englishforums.com/English/OnThisDay/9/dnxcn/Post.htm#318525</comments><wfw:commentRss>http://www.englishforums.com/English/comments19-318525.xml</wfw:commentRss><description>&lt;BLOCKQUOTE&gt;&lt;table width="85%"&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class="txt4"&gt;&lt;img src="/Themes/default/images/icon-quote.gif"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;strong&gt;Anonymous wrote:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class="quoteTable"&gt;&lt;table width="100%"&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td width="100%" valign="top" class="txt4"&gt;
&lt;p&gt;That's is a fact that the arabs came in the year of 638,so who lived therebefore Turkish? Armenians?maybe the Romans? &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;I think the jews were there before,as independence state(judea kindgdom and david) and because of invasions of other nation as the greek and the romans they became to minority,even under babillon they were "kicked" out ,and i guess they brought some new populations,isn't? so maybe you arabs did immigrant during the all years&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;/BLOCKQUOTE&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;ya the arabs did immigrate but u have to remember that the people who were before arabs stayed here and they are one of those Palestinians not all the Palestinians are 100% arabs and at least when arabs came they didn't expelle the real citizens on the contrary we made an agreement to live with each other not as what u did so no matter what was your rights on this land is you don't have any right to expelle the old citizens kick them out kill them and make an ethnic cleansing&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div style="clear:both;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</description></item><item><title>Re: On This Day ...</title><link>http://www.englishforums.com/English/OnThisDay/9/dnmbq/Post.htm#317933</link><pubDate>Sun, 21 Jan 2007 10:12:18 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="true">946f00bb-57d3-4b7b-a9a2-059b5341af52:317933</guid><dc:creator>Anonymous</dc:creator><slash:comments>0</slash:comments><comments>http://www.englishforums.com/English/OnThisDay/9/dnmbq/Post.htm#317933</comments><wfw:commentRss>http://www.englishforums.com/English/comments19-317933.xml</wfw:commentRss><description>&lt;P&gt;In a March 31, 1977 interview with the Amsterdam-based newspaper &lt;I&gt;Dagblad de Verdieping Trouw&lt;/I&gt;, PLO executive committee member Zahir Muhseâin said:&lt;BR&gt;&lt;BR&gt;&lt;B&gt;The Palestinian people does not exist. The creation of a Palestinian state is only a means for continuing our struggle against the state of Israel for our Arab unity. In reality today there is no difference between Jordanians, Palestinians, Syrians and Lebanese. Only for political and tactical reasons do we speak today about the existence of a Palestinian people, since Arab national interests demand that we posit the existence of a distinct âPalestinian peopleâ to oppose Zionism. For tactical reasons, Jordan, which is a sovereign state with defined borders, cannot raise claims to Haifa and Jaffa, while as a Palestinian, I can undoubtedly demand Haifa, Jaffa, Beer-Sheva and Jerusalem. However, the moment we reclaim our right to all of Palestine, we will not wait even a minute to unite Palestine and Jordan&lt;/B&gt;&lt;/P&gt;
&lt;P&gt;&lt;STRONG&gt;&lt;/STRONG&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/P&gt;
&lt;P&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.library.cornell.edu/colldev/mideast/hamas.htm" target="_blank" title="http://www.library.cornell.edu/colldev/mideast/hamas.htm"&gt;http://www.library.cornell.edu/colldev/mideast/hamas.htm&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/P&gt;
&lt;P&gt;&lt;IMG src="http://isaacschrodinger.typepad.com/isaacschrodinger/images/paleskids.jpg"&gt;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;div style="clear:both;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</description></item><item><title>Re: On This Day ...</title><link>http://www.englishforums.com/English/OnThisDay/8/dnmbd/Post.htm#317920</link><pubDate>Sun, 21 Jan 2007 09:10:18 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="true">946f00bb-57d3-4b7b-a9a2-059b5341af52:317920</guid><dc:creator>Anonymous</dc:creator><slash:comments>0</slash:comments><comments>http://www.englishforums.com/English/OnThisDay/8/dnmbd/Post.htm#317920</comments><wfw:commentRss>http://www.englishforums.com/English/comments19-317920.xml</wfw:commentRss><description>&lt;P&gt;That's is a fact that the arabs came in the year of 638,so who lived there&amp;nbsp;before&amp;nbsp;638 Turkish? Armenians?maybe the Romans? &lt;img src="/emoticons/emotion-4.gif" alt="Stick out tongue [:P]" /&gt;&lt;/P&gt;
&lt;P&gt;I think the jews were there before,as independence state(judea kindgdom and david) and because of invasions of other nation as the greek and the romans they became to minority,even under babillon they were "kicked" out ,and i guess they brought some new populations,isn't? so maybe you arabs did immigrant during the all years&lt;/P&gt;&lt;div style="clear:both;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</description></item><item><title>Re: On This Day ...</title><link>http://www.englishforums.com/English/OnThisDay/8/dnlwh/Post.htm#317754</link><pubDate>Sat, 20 Jan 2007 19:43:46 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="true">946f00bb-57d3-4b7b-a9a2-059b5341af52:317754</guid><dc:creator>Anonymous</dc:creator><slash:comments>0</slash:comments><comments>http://www.englishforums.com/English/OnThisDay/8/dnlwh/Post.htm#317754</comments><wfw:commentRss>http://www.englishforums.com/English/comments19-317754.xml</wfw:commentRss><description>&lt;P&gt;see the truth:&lt;/P&gt;
&lt;P&gt;www.ifamericansknew.com&lt;/P&gt;&lt;div style="clear:both;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</description></item><item><title>Re: On This Day ...</title><link>http://www.englishforums.com/English/OnThisDay/8/dnlwd/Post.htm#317750</link><pubDate>Sat, 20 Jan 2007 19:28:55 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="true">946f00bb-57d3-4b7b-a9a2-059b5341af52:317750</guid><dc:creator>Anonymous</dc:creator><slash:comments>0</slash:comments><comments>http://www.englishforums.com/English/OnThisDay/8/dnlwd/Post.htm#317750</comments><wfw:commentRss>http://www.englishforums.com/English/comments19-317750.xml</wfw:commentRss><description>&lt;BLOCKQUOTE&gt;&lt;table width="85%"&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class="txt4"&gt;&lt;img src="/Themes/default/images/icon-quote.gif"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;strong&gt;Anonymous wrote:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class="quoteTable"&gt;&lt;table width="100%"&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td width="100%" valign="top" class="txt4"&gt;
&lt;P&gt;Are you sure that&amp;nbsp; they try to make a new history or maybe it you? &lt;/P&gt;
&lt;P&gt;why don't you just divide that land and that's it? &lt;img src="/emoticons/emotion-7.gif" alt="Tongue Tied [:S]" /&gt; &lt;/P&gt;
&lt;P&gt;gosh, you two making so much of troubles &lt;img src="/emoticons/emotion-4.gif" alt="Stick out tongue [:P]" /&gt; &lt;/P&gt;

&lt;P&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;/BLOCKQUOTE&gt;&lt;/P&gt;
&lt;P&gt;i said becasue their claims contradicts the fact that arabs lived there since 638, we all agree on this fact i guess, and everyone tell u a different lie one tell u(the palestinians) are from syria others say u are from saudi arabia others morocco others bosna and dunno what else they don't even agree&amp;nbsp;with&amp;nbsp;the same lie and as if the israelis didn't came out of immigration in the year 1948 jews were only 20% and the others (muslims christians durze bahaa'e ,the palestinians now) 80% but after expelling many of them and due to the jewish immigration nowadays jews are 80% and the rest&amp;nbsp; are just 20%&lt;/P&gt;
&lt;P&gt;as u i see israel is in control so u can divide it at least do it please do it at least give us this right i really wish they will i &lt;/P&gt;
&lt;P&gt;duh? we are making so much trouble probably u are in complete ignorance of what's happening in palestine go there and see the real catastrophe&lt;/P&gt;&lt;div style="clear:both;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</description></item><item><title>Re: On This Day ...</title><link>http://www.englishforums.com/English/OnThisDay/8/dngvv/Post.htm#316238</link><pubDate>Wed, 17 Jan 2007 08:04:53 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="true">946f00bb-57d3-4b7b-a9a2-059b5341af52:316238</guid><dc:creator>Anonymous</dc:creator><slash:comments>0</slash:comments><comments>http://www.englishforums.com/English/OnThisDay/8/dngvv/Post.htm#316238</comments><wfw:commentRss>http://www.englishforums.com/English/comments19-316238.xml</wfw:commentRss><description>&lt;p&gt;Are you sure that&amp;nbsp; they try to make a new history or maybe it you? &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;why don't you just divide that land and that's it? &lt;img src="/emoticons/emotion-7.gif" alt="Tongue Tied [:S]" /&gt; &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;gosh, you two making so much of troubles &lt;img src="/emoticons/emotion-4.gif" alt="Stick out tongue [:P]" /&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&lt;div style="clear:both;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</description></item><item><title>Re: On This Day ...</title><link>http://www.englishforums.com/English/OnThisDay/8/dnzwq/Post.htm#316029</link><pubDate>Tue, 16 Jan 2007 19:18:20 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="true">946f00bb-57d3-4b7b-a9a2-059b5341af52:316029</guid><dc:creator>Anonymous</dc:creator><slash:comments>0</slash:comments><comments>http://www.englishforums.com/English/OnThisDay/8/dnzwq/Post.htm#316029</comments><wfw:commentRss>http://www.englishforums.com/English/comments19-316029.xml</wfw:commentRss><description>&lt;IMG src="http://www.hayatnafs.com/pictures/UNpalchildren.jpg"&gt;&lt;div style="clear:both;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</description></item><item><title>Re: On This Day ...</title><link>http://www.englishforums.com/English/OnThisDay/8/dnzwx/Post.htm#316027</link><pubDate>Tue, 16 Jan 2007 19:07:30 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="true">946f00bb-57d3-4b7b-a9a2-059b5341af52:316027</guid><dc:creator>Anonymous</dc:creator><slash:comments>0</slash:comments><comments>http://www.englishforums.com/English/OnThisDay/8/dnzwx/Post.htm#316027</comments><wfw:commentRss>http://www.englishforums.com/English/comments19-316027.xml</wfw:commentRss><description>&lt;P&gt;see this:&lt;/P&gt;
&lt;P&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.zmag.org/content/showarticle.cfm?ItemID=3760" target="_blank" title="http://www.zmag.org/content/showarticle.cfm?ItemID=3760"&gt;http://www.zmag.org/content/showarticle.cfm?ItemID=3760&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;div style="clear:both;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</description></item><item><title>Re: On This Day ...</title><link>http://www.englishforums.com/English/OnThisDay/8/dnzwk/Post.htm#316023</link><pubDate>Tue, 16 Jan 2007 18:53:11 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="true">946f00bb-57d3-4b7b-a9a2-059b5341af52:316023</guid><dc:creator>Anonymous</dc:creator><slash:comments>0</slash:comments><comments>http://www.englishforums.com/English/OnThisDay/8/dnzwk/Post.htm#316023</comments><wfw:commentRss>http://www.englishforums.com/English/comments19-316023.xml</wfw:commentRss><description>&lt;P&gt;see? u think we are terrorists cause your media don't show the truth? we are hurt caue they hide our suffering and don't show it they only show the terrorists actions how fair&lt;img src="/emoticons/emotion-7.gif" alt="Tongue Tied [:S]" /&gt;? btw u don't either know what's happenin u have never been in palestine so it's common for you to say that&lt;/P&gt;
&lt;P&gt;the zionists can make a new history create up stories&amp;nbsp; claim that they have rights on this land but it's obviously all a *** and u know well arabs lived here since 638 so we have been here 1400 year which contradicts all their claims&lt;/P&gt;&lt;div style="clear:both;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</description></item><item><title>Re: On This Day ...</title><link>http://www.englishforums.com/English/OnThisDay/8/dnzrn/Post.htm#315890</link><pubDate>Tue, 16 Jan 2007 13:21:48 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="true">946f00bb-57d3-4b7b-a9a2-059b5341af52:315890</guid><dc:creator>Anonymous</dc:creator><slash:comments>0</slash:comments><comments>http://www.englishforums.com/English/OnThisDay/8/dnzrn/Post.htm#315890</comments><wfw:commentRss>http://www.englishforums.com/English/comments19-315890.xml</wfw:commentRss><description>&lt;P&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.imninalu.net/myths-pals.htm" target="_blank" title="http://www.imninalu.net/myths-pals.htm"&gt;http://www.imninalu.net/myths-pals.htm&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/P&gt;

&lt;P&gt;are you kidding?the media is with you,is the media hurts you because it show how terrorists are you? &lt;img src="/emoticons/emotion-4.gif" alt="Stick out tongue [:P]" /&gt;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;div style="clear:both;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</description></item><item><title>Re: On This Day ...</title><link>http://www.englishforums.com/English/OnThisDay/8/dnvhz/Post.htm#315712</link><pubDate>Mon, 15 Jan 2007 23:57:02 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="true">946f00bb-57d3-4b7b-a9a2-059b5341af52:315712</guid><dc:creator>Anonymous</dc:creator><slash:comments>0</slash:comments><comments>http://www.englishforums.com/English/OnThisDay/8/dnvhz/Post.htm#315712</comments><wfw:commentRss>http://www.englishforums.com/English/comments19-315712.xml</wfw:commentRss><description>&lt;P&gt;&lt;BLOCKQUOTE&gt;&lt;table width="85%"&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class="txt4"&gt;&lt;img src="/Themes/default/images/icon-quote.gif"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;strong&gt;J Lewis wrote:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class="quoteTable"&gt;&lt;table width="100%"&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td width="100%" valign="top" class="txt4"&gt;Hi Teardrop. A good description of the suffering of the Palestinian people. In Europe and N. America the media want us to ignore these facts. The main news programmes tell us about the suffering of the Jewish people but very little about the Palestians. To hear the media you would think that the Palestinians are a mass of malcontents for reasons associated with religion, culture, racial inferiority and who knows what else.&lt;BR&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;/BLOCKQUOTE&gt;&lt;/P&gt;
&lt;P&gt;once a palestinian priest said "the Western TV hurts us" because it hides our sufferings and hide israel crimes&lt;/P&gt;&lt;div style="clear:both;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</description></item><item><title>Re: On This Day ...</title><link>http://www.englishforums.com/English/OnThisDay/7/dnvhd/Post.htm#315710</link><pubDate>Mon, 15 Jan 2007 23:53:02 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="true">946f00bb-57d3-4b7b-a9a2-059b5341af52:315710</guid><dc:creator>Anonymous</dc:creator><slash:comments>0</slash:comments><comments>http://www.englishforums.com/English/OnThisDay/7/dnvhd/Post.htm#315710</comments><wfw:commentRss>http://www.englishforums.com/English/comments19-315710.xml</wfw:commentRss><description>&lt;P&gt;once a palestinian priest said "Western&amp;nbsp;TV hurts us"! &lt;/P&gt;&lt;div style="clear:both;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</description></item><item><title>Re: On This Day ...</title><link>http://www.englishforums.com/English/OnThisDay/7/dnrkr/Post.htm#314602</link><pubDate>Fri, 12 Jan 2007 22:53:56 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="true">946f00bb-57d3-4b7b-a9a2-059b5341af52:314602</guid><dc:creator>Anonymous</dc:creator><slash:comments>0</slash:comments><comments>http://www.englishforums.com/English/OnThisDay/7/dnrkr/Post.htm#314602</comments><wfw:commentRss>http://www.englishforums.com/English/comments19-314602.xml</wfw:commentRss><description>what i said is&amp;nbsp;written in black&lt;div style="clear:both;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</description></item></channel></rss>