Harel; What would it take to get you guys to come? ----- Original Message ---- From: Harel Cain <harel.cain(a)gmail.com> To: Wikimedia Foundation Mailing List <foundation-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org> Sent: Thursday, May 22, 2008 10:32:10 AM Subject: Re: [Foundation-l] FYI: Welcome to this years Wikimania site: Egypt, the land with cultur ministers with special taste in history, culture and all the good things Let's put things straight. The Arabs in Israel usually read in Arabic. Whatever translations of Arabic (specifically Egyptian) literature into Hebrew there are, are mainly for the benefit of the Israeli Jewish reader. These books are normally translated by Israeli publishers on their own initiative, out of commercial reasons. But all this is beyond the point. The quote attributed to the Egyptian minister is not a one-of-a-kind occurrence. There are some groups in Egypt vehemently opposed to the peace treaty with Israel (from 1979!). Surprisingly, some professional organizations such as the writers guild are among the most radical in this regard. It is a sad fact of life that Israel has a "cold peace" with Egypt. Few people travel back and forth. The current formal recommendation of the Israeli Anti-Terror council is for all Israeli nationals to "avoid all visits to Egypt, and if they are already there, to leave Egypt immediately", because of "a very high concrete threat" (http://www.nsc.gov.il/NSCWeb/Templates/country.aspx?countryId=42, in Hebrew only). We (over at Wikimedia Israel) had some optimistic plans to come to Alexandria in big numbers (after all, it's a neighboring country). Sadly, I don't see that happening. Harel On Thu, May 22, 2008 at 5:08 PM, Yaroslav M. Blanter <putevod(a)mccme.ru> wrote: -- Quidquid latine dictum sit, altum viditur. _______________________________________________ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l