Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site pyuxhh.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!gamma!pyuxww!pyuxhh!dxp From: dxp@pyuxhh.UUCP (D Peak) Newsgroups: net.religion.jewish Subject: Re: Usage of the Word Goy Message-ID: <647@pyuxhh.UUCP> Date: Mon, 4-Jun-84 14:38:54 EDT Article-I.D.: pyuxhh.647 Posted: Mon Jun 4 14:38:54 1984 Date-Received: Wed, 6-Jun-84 04:35:13 EDT References: <798@akgua.UUCP>, <557@ihuxt.UUCP> Organization: Bell Communications Research, Piscataway N.J. Lines: 65 --> The song tells us what we all know - that --> Israel is the only really peaseful country in the Mid East --> but it gets blamed for everything). --> --> Eli Haber --> Eli , I'm assuming that you meant "peaceful" . Peaceful ????? I'd feel safer alone at 2:00 am in Central Park than in Israel right now ! I'll admit that if you are adressing purely a Jewish audience but surely you realise that you are not . There are many countries in the Mid East that are orders of magnitude more peaceful than Israel. But due to the nature of their governments make them inaccessible to anyone admitting to being Jewish.Even if you were able to get into some of these arabic countries I'm sure some of the writings of Yaqim Martillo would make you feel less safe than someone who was not jewish. I'll agree with you that I'd rather be in Israel than these 1. Lebanon 2. Iran 3. Iraq 4. Afghanistan 5. Syria 6. Both Yemens I'd have to put Cyprus & Egypt aboubt level with Israel as to my own personal feelings of safety. Countries I'd feel safer in. 1. Jordan 2. Turkey 3. Kuwait 4. Oman 5. Saudia Arabia 6. United Arab Emirates 7. Qatar 8. Bahrain I seem to remember that Bahrain & Cyprus being the only countries that do not specifically ask you if you are jewish when requesting visa info or entry into the country. I can see where you might feel safer in Israel than any other Mid East country but PEACEFUL , forget that !!!!!!!! -- Dave Peak (pyuxhh!dxp) " I'd rather have two girls at 21 each than one girl at 42 ! " - W.C. Fields