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Dorothee
Germany

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| 06:18 AM Feb 17 2013

Dorothee

Germany

Oh my! Why do people make such a fuss only because I posted the flag of Israel above a forum that deals with the official language of Israel. This doesn’t mean anything! Israel is just a nation! Israel’s citizens are people like everyone else and you may find some honorable as well as some less honorable individuals among them. To put an end to this in my opinion – please excuse the expression – ridiculous discussion, I’m going to change this picture. I just drew the first letter of the Hebrew alphabet, Alef. I hope these gentlemen are satisfied now. Thank you and good day!
P.S. I am going to remove any further comment that deals with Israel!

| 11:38 AM Feb 15 2013

Dorothee

Germany

Oh dear! Why can’t I even have a forum which I created to improve my Hebrew without having it turned into a discussion about politics or religion. Please don’t get me wrong ladies and gentlemen…I still think these are important subjects and I’m still into political, cultural and religious stuff, but exuse me. I use this forum to post Hebrew stuff in here and if some Israeli stumbles by and finds grammatical errors, he might correct me. Also I’m sure I’m not the only person in the whole big world who has to learn this as a foreign language. Thus this forum could be useful for others, too. After all everybody is free to read what I write in here and I don’t even mind if somebody else posted a question about Hebrew grammar in here. Actually I’d even appreciate that.
In addition englishbaby is a free website, meaning that I can post whatever I want as long as it is no troll post, nothing off topic and neither insulting nor threatening. Thus I may post the flag of any country. There is nothing wrong about posting the flag of a country, right? For example I’ve got this forum about learning Spanish which I posted under a photo of the flag of Spain. Does this mean that I condon what some Spanish soldiers who lived hundreds of years ago did to the Aztecs? I’m sure it doesn’t. It just didn’t seem too illogical to me to use the flag of Spain as a symbol of the Spanish language in general.
Well, it’s just the Internet. What can I say? Actually I even should be glad that nobody created a political or religious discussion under this picture of mine that deals with critically endangered plants.
P.S. Ladies and gentlemen, I doubt that posting the problems you’ve got with the state of Israel under a photo which deals with the problems a German girl has with the Hebrew language. In fact Israel is a democracy, which means that theoretically anybody could write a complaint letter to the Israeli president Schimon Peres. Maybe you could even start a whole petition and then send him the results of this petition. Maybe it will help, maybe it won’t; but posting these things in here – especially since I already told you that this is off topic – most certsinly won’t help either.
I’m sorry for the rough tone in which this message was written. Usually I’m not like that, but I’m starting to get tired of users who keep posting political stuff in here, even though I already told them that this is a forum about grammar. Israel certainly isn’t a perfect state – nor is Iran, Germany or Romania – and thus I understand your complaints, but if you really feel the need to have a forum discussion about the state of Israel, you may as well create your own forum or find a forum that already deals with this subject. Thank you! Have a nice day!

| 08:41 AM Feb 15 2013

saeedsirtex

Iran, Islamic Republic Of

hay all, dear friends, just imagine someone come and buy ur house and ur neighbour house till he buy all house of one city… do u think does he has this role to capture that city and land around that??? this is what esaeel do, beside enemy think does he done…
i m so appreciate from Dorothee to post this note….
take care

| 10:14 PM Feb 13 2013

Dorothee

Germany

Well Sir, I’m not really upset about your comment, because firstly there sure already were users on this website who posted even more upsetting stuff and secondly I’m just not the one to freak out easily. Also I apologize for not checking out your gender before replying to your comment. It’s just that my PC is working so slowly and I have to learn for my studies. Really, I’m sorry!
Also I don’t think your grammar is bad. Actually I think you speak English well.
I’m well aware that some of the things Israel already did to Palestinians were not nice and of course everyone should have the right to criticize them, but again I’m telling people not to insult every single Israeli citizen as “murderers” or “thieves” because of this. After all there are all kinds of people in Israel and some of them in fact are honorable and nice men. Also I don’t understand how a democratic state like Israel that by the way has connections to the US-American head of state as well as to the German one could be a threat to us. Fanatic Islamists? Yes! The head of state of Syria? Well, he killed 70.000 of his own citizens, so…North Korea? They have their own nuclear tests, sothey theoretically could do something. Qny other dictatorship in this world? Well, most regimes do a lot of things – like human rights abuse – secretly and that’s why it would be possible. To keep a long letter short I don’t see why you think that the whole mankind is threatened by Israel. I’d understand if you said that Israel was endangering Palestine, but the whole world…?

| 10:41 AM Feb 13 2013

Dorothee

Germany

About freedom of speech: Well, of course I agree on that. After all Germany, Romania and by the way Israel too are democratic states. It’s just that already the little text under my profile-picture says that I delete a comment if it contains an insult and accusing a whole nation of being murderers may be considered as an insult, don’t you agree, Sir (or Madam)? You say that people who defend Israelis are going to hell. Considering things from a theological point of view, this may not be quite true, Sir (or Madam), because seeing things through the eyes of a Christian, you may realize that sometimes the ways of JHWH the god of Jews and Christians are unpredictable. Let alone that the Pentateuch clearly says that Israel is God’s chosen people. Also there are Israelis like these and Israelis like that and I know some really great people from Israel. Thus I’d be a racist if I didn’t defend them – as you put it – only because they were born in Israel. Have a nice evening, Sir /Madam!
P.S. Israel is the only state where Hebrew is the official language and that’s why it just made sense to me to create this forum under the photograph of the Israeli flag. My apologies to people who don’t like this idea of mine.

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