I don't want to get into this useless debate, but I have minor corrections:
there were Israelis among the bid team and the
sponsors.
There were no Israelis on the bidding team.
The question of the Arab-Israeli conflict was never
raised and it was
deemed totally irrelevant.
That's not true, there were questions raised about the safety of Israelis in
Egypt and Egypt's attitude towards Jews, and in the greater context of the
same problem (politicizing Wikimania), there was a huge storm raised about
Human rights record of Egypt, Dictatorship rule in Egypt, treatment of
women, LGBTs rights in Egypt, etc, etc.. The discussion spanned meta, irc
and mailing lists. So, if you are getting only a couple of boycott canvass
messages every now and then, you're lucky :)
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Best Regards,
Muhammad Yahia