Hi Ilya, If you check out the bottom of Miguel's homepage you start understanding where he stands in the palestinian - Israeli conflict (although I generally read his blog for linux/gnome related stuff the ei (electric intifada) links where pretty interesting as well. http://primates.ximian.com/~miguel/
Seeing that link, it's obvious now why he fears that in Israel foreign citizens get arested for no cause - the border police have in their bag several cases of detaining visitors just for being leftists (um... I mean... troublemakers. Of course. You misheard me the first time... please don't arrest me too). Fortunately he does not look like a blond woman with a Ukrainian accent - that is a sure deportation.
And regarding the lebenese lug ... If indeed the future will be shiny ( ;) ) maybe we can plan joint LUG meeting with the Hizbullug !
Lior.
On Thu, 10 Mar 2005 23:09:44 +0200, Ilya Konstantinov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Miguel de Icaza (the founder of the GNOME project) is touring Turkey and Lebanon right now and has some interesting notes and photos in his blog (and apparently, a Lebanese LUG doesn't look very much different from ours): http://primates.ximian.com/~miguel/archive/2005/Mar-10.html http://primates.ximian.com/~miguel/archive/2005/Mar-09.html
By the way, when he first mentioned touring Turkey and the Middle East, I've contacted him about the possibility of him visiting Israel. I had to alleviate worries he had about Israel being some kind of police state, where foreign citizens are detained for no reason etc. but eventually he still preferred to visit Lebannon this time (quite a hot time of the year in Lebanon, that's for sure) since he read a book about the country which got him very interested. I guess he has no excuse to skip Israel on his next visit :)
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