Re: [OT] Miguel de Icaza visiting the Middle East

2005-03-12 Thread Yosef Meller
Lior Kesos wrote: 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.

Re: [OT] Miguel de Icaza visiting the Middle East

2005-03-12 Thread Ilya Konstantinov
Yosef Meller wrote: 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

Re: [OT] Miguel de Icaza visiting the Middle East

2005-03-12 Thread Ira Abramov
Quoting Ilya Konstantinov, from the post of Sun, 13 Mar: This discussion is bound to get wildly off-topic, so let's just sum up that there's no reason[*] why a foreign guest whom our LUGs would be interested to see couldn't visit Israel. well, in a discussion with RMS from several months

[OT] Miguel de Icaza visiting the Middle East

2005-03-10 Thread Ilya Konstantinov
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

Re: [OT] Miguel de Icaza visiting the Middle East

2005-03-10 Thread Lior Kesos
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.