Comments on: The Constantly Troubled Tourist http://southjerusalem.com/2008/08/the-constantly-troubled-tourist/ A Progressive, Skeptical Blog on Israel, Judaism, Culture, Politics, and Literature Sun, 05 Feb 2012 12:35:48 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.3 By: Georgios, Ali, and Tribal Conflict http://southjerusalem.com/2008/08/the-constantly-troubled-tourist/comment-page-1/#comment-1596 Georgios, Ali, and Tribal Conflict Tue, 26 Aug 2008 18:26:51 +0000 http://southjerusalem.com/?p=291#comment-1596 [...] meditation on how tribal conflicts impinged on his family trip to Crete reminded me of Georgios, one of my college [...] [...] meditation on how tribal conflicts impinged on his family trip to Crete reminded me of Georgios, one of my college [...]

]]> By: jean http://southjerusalem.com/2008/08/the-constantly-troubled-tourist/comment-page-1/#comment-1571 jean Tue, 26 Aug 2008 05:45:10 +0000 http://southjerusalem.com/?p=291#comment-1571 It's boring to have a text-recite guide. It's as well poor to have a guide offering mistaken information, objective information I mean. Tour guide is an important source for travelers to know a place. So I think they shall provide accurate objective facts. Yet the opinions or entending stories are more or less subjective. And sometimes with local prides. That's the interesting part of travel, hearing different voices, isn't it? http://www.ourexplorer.com local guides, local wisdom It’s boring to have a text-recite guide. It’s as well poor to have a guide offering mistaken information, objective information I mean. Tour guide is an important source for travelers to know a place. So I think they shall provide accurate objective facts. Yet the opinions or entending stories are more or less subjective. And sometimes with local prides. That’s the interesting part of travel, hearing different voices, isn’t it?

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]]> By: Clif http://southjerusalem.com/2008/08/the-constantly-troubled-tourist/comment-page-1/#comment-1562 Clif Mon, 25 Aug 2008 17:02:35 +0000 http://southjerusalem.com/?p=291#comment-1562 Here's a way to look at the bright side of it: at least you had a creative tour guide. Since he had the Minoan civilization as his subject, you might say he "took the bull and ran with it". The worst guides are those who are bored to mindlessness by the job and end up sounding like robots reciting the exact same phrases for the umpteenth time. Here’s a way to look at the bright side of it: at least you had a creative tour guide. Since he had the Minoan civilization as his subject, you might say he “took the bull and ran with it”.

The worst guides are those who are bored to mindlessness by the job and end up sounding like robots reciting the exact same phrases for the umpteenth time.

]]> By: Y. Ben-David http://southjerusalem.com/2008/08/the-constantly-troubled-tourist/comment-page-1/#comment-1544 Y. Ben-David Mon, 25 Aug 2008 04:42:57 +0000 http://southjerusalem.com/?p=291#comment-1544 Thank you for these examples of primitive "narrow, parochial" interpretations of history by the natives of Crete, the Jews on the Golan, the Circassians and the Turks. These no doubt grate on your superior "universalist, pluralistic" view of things. I hope in future articles you will also include the Arabs/Palestinians/Muslims as also being "primitive, narrow and parochial". For some reason, you left them out of this article. For example, you could tell us how they say that "Jesus was a Palestinian" (Arafat told Pope John Paul II that one), or how Arafat lectured Clinton at Camp David saying that there never was a Jewish Beit HaMikdash (Holy Temple) in Jerusalem, or how the Canaanites were actually Palestinians, or how Abraham, Isaac , Jacob, Moses, David and Solomon were Palestinian Muslims. Since you have pointed out that Harkabi's book points out how nationalist passion is not a good base for the Jewish "settler movement", I suggest you should distribute the book among the Palestinians, since although you left out examples of their "narrow parochial nationalism", you no doubt want to bring them up to your high , universalistic, multicultural level no less than the settlers. Thank you for these examples of primitive “narrow, parochial” interpretations of history by the natives of Crete, the Jews on the Golan, the Circassians and the Turks. These no doubt grate on your superior “universalist, pluralistic” view of things. I hope in future articles you will also include the Arabs/Palestinians/Muslims as also being “primitive, narrow and parochial”. For some reason, you left them out of this article. For example, you could tell us how they say that “Jesus was a Palestinian” (Arafat told Pope John Paul II that one), or how Arafat lectured Clinton at Camp David saying that there never was a Jewish Beit HaMikdash (Holy Temple) in Jerusalem, or how the Canaanites were actually Palestinians, or how Abraham, Isaac , Jacob, Moses, David and Solomon were Palestinian Muslims.

Since you have pointed out that Harkabi’s book points out how nationalist passion is not a good base for the Jewish “settler movement”, I suggest you should distribute the book among the Palestinians, since although you left out examples of their “narrow parochial nationalism”, you no doubt want to bring them up to your high , universalistic, multicultural level no less than the settlers.

]]> By: Rebecca http://southjerusalem.com/2008/08/the-constantly-troubled-tourist/comment-page-1/#comment-1539 Rebecca Sun, 24 Aug 2008 23:22:01 +0000 http://southjerusalem.com/?p=291#comment-1539 it will definitely be easier to find a place with no wireless connection and no newspaper than a place without history.... it will definitely be easier to find a place with no wireless connection and no newspaper than a place without history….

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