Israel

Hi everyone, I'd like to talk to you about my country, if you don't mind.

Well, you see... I live in Jerusalem. Probably the most controversial city in the world, at the moment. Yes, not far away from Palestinian controlled areas, but I'm not scared. There seems to be a lot of drama regarding Israel in general and specifically Jerusalem. To be honest, I don't understand some of the drama. I mean, it's just a city. What's so religiously important here? Besides the monuments. It's just a city, really! Other than that, I used to live in Eilat, the southern most city. It's a tourism based desert city, pretty cool place. For a month or two I also lived with family relatives in Ashdod, Tel aviv and Holon. But, I was curious to know why is there a lot of hatred for this country. For me, I don't feel special or controversial as a regular citizen living here. But, Americans do feel that way, it seems. In fact I have met many americans who are very pissed off at Israel, despite Trump being very supportive.

 

@Don loves Jews

 

@eden @Nessi :karlos: :lul:

 

I live in Houston, Israel.
@allanklw

 

I love you

 

please don't drag israel into your troll meltdown.

 

Thanks for your response on this mates.

I was wondering if you can explain what is the big deal about Israel. I live here, so what? Just a country, like the United States, Canada, UK, France, Russia... like any country. Why are some people so frustrated? There's war here, just like there's war in Syria, Yemen, Iraq and any other Middle East country. Arabs have a tendency to be violent people, as you probably know. I was visiting Beer Sheva at a friend's home a while back, and rocket warnings were made from rockets from Gaza Strip. It wasn't a very pleasant situation, you can imagine. Yes, I can also understand the citizens of the Gaza Strip, but, if their government won't stop with the rockets then there the war won't stop.

 

You are the greatest. Isreally true. Isreal.

 

Good point. Why does some Americans tend to say Isreal instead of Israel? Is it an accent related issue?

 

I feel like Americans get the short end of the stick most of the time.

If I had to take a random guess-shot in the dark, "-ea" is much, much, much more common in regular use and it's a simple error. It's also a different country with a language that most Americans don't speak, so they might not know.

On the other hand, most people don't say "scallop" right (It's a long story), or are unable to spell Oquamoshod after hearing it lol, I wouldn't be surprised if people from Israel would struggle with the dialect/spelling/street names of the the Pilgrim settled, Native influence, Portuguese populated, off-shoot of Boston I'm from. It's also possible people from the US are just bitter that most of the world assumes we're idiots with no culture or history, and don't care to learn or say things correctly.

 

Umm beg to differ sweaty

 

Well, yeah Evan, I guess you're right about that. To be honest, whenever I heard an American saying Isreal instead of Israel, I never took it seriously or thought he or she are stupid or anything like that. I understand it's a language issue, a mistake done unintentionally and most of the time, not as an attempt to make fun of the country. I used to have a lot of English language issues when I was younger. As time passed by, I learned a lot from in-game communication with a lot of Americans. I can basically move to the US and speak English to a lot of people and no one would notice I am Israeli unless I told them. I dont think there's any point that, any of you learn Hebrew unless you have plans to live in Israel for many years. But, the thing with English is you speak it at any foreign country you visit and most people have some basic understanding of it. You cant fly to China and speak hebrew there. But, English is easier to learn than Hebrew. Have you ever seen what hebrew text looks like? Take a look at the photo in my signature, of the medication box. That should give you a clue. Yes, blocky and weird, but you could say the same thing about Chinese language, about how it's complicated and that you will never learn it - but for chinese people, it's very easy and normal. Personally, when I look at Chinese words or text, it looks like something that even if I registered for Chinese language class and studied it for 20 years - I would still not be able to speak it. I know this is going to sound kinda weird and stupid, but I wish if the entire world would have spoken one single language, instead of many different languages. But that's a complicated topic related to human history and evolution of the human languages and communication.