Originally posted by lazs2
lala... nope...never been to a muslim country... know a lot of guys who I trust that have tho and they all said the places were crapholes.
I know people who have visited Israel too and they said it was great... except for the muslims..
That interesting. I used to travell trough several countries in ME
and i never noted, that other travellers had sutch unified point of view.
Anyway all of them agreed, that 2 years in army for Israeli gals make them *%&^@#*$% beautiful.
Actualy i were chatting with australian guy, who used to live in Israel for some 6 months in 2003. He used to work at farm and brought quite interesting stories from countryside (how some killed his daugter, because she had sex with someone, what people use to cheat parents, that girl was virgin at weding nights... and a lot of other quite useful tricks
)
But these were people who travell trough the regions with backpack, mostly between 20-35 years of age.
They dont travell from 4 start hotel to 5 star hotel. It might be diferent story.
Anyway the only one American who i meet in ME was a 18 or 19 years old guy, who run out of money in the Turkey so he were waiting 4 months in the hotel untill his mom sent him money. he was very famous at that time, everyone who were passing from Turkey to Iran, Pakistan, Indai(part of silk road ) knew about him.
Im not sure anymore.. but i think that he travelled to Jordan, Syria (or Lebanon) and may be Iran, before he run into problems in Turkey. Anyway... i liked him , because he had a balls to check the world (even when he sux at counting and planning
)
Well im not about to convince you to visit ME, but if you think, that whole ME is the same because they are all muslims, then you trough wrong. It is as mad as expect, that whole EU is the same, because there used to be Christians.
Caligua.. do you have some sort of religion in Israel ( may be fork of Judaism or Islam), whitch belive in something like reincarnation ?
Edit: ahh sry Caligua i forget to reply your question.
tricks ok*** I guess that you might be a jew (my chance to be right is 50%
). So if im going to tell you, that i live in most important Jewish centre in Europe before holocaust, then you might be able to conclude answer
( btw first (probably) moderate genocide agains jews, took place around year 1142 overhere and it has been carried out by christians).. Now its must be quite clear
[damm im so happy to live in secular state, when im reading local history ]