Re: [OFFICIAL] NEW FT SHIPS!!

Noam,

I use it in the same fashion here in NJ/NY/CT.	Not
sure about the referenced to the camp.	All that I can
find out points to propaganda and no real assualt but
as was mentioned this is a very hot button issue and
should stay offlist.

Bob Makowsky

--- Noam Izenberg <noam.izenberg@jhuapl.edu> wrote:
> On Jan 29, 2004, at 2:00 AM, The GZG Digest wrote:
> > Date: Thu, 29 Jan 2004 06:10:16 +0000
> > From: Lachlan Atcliffe <u1m87@ugm.keele.ac.uk>
> >
> > I hate to pitch in on this one, but an Israeli
> friend of mine also 
> > notes
> > that "Sabra" is more normally connected with
> atrocities committed 
> > during
> > the war in Lebenon. In his words, it would be like
> calling a USN vessel
> > "Vietnam".
> >
> > If there are nicer connotations for the name,
> could some nice person 
> > let
> > me know?
> 
> That's the first time I've ever heard of this.
> Sabra has always been for me a name for native
> Israelis - like the 
> desert fruit: tough and prickly on the outside,
> sweet on the inside. My 
> mom's a Sabra. Perhaps it's living in the States,
> but in my experience 
> Sabra does not have that negative connotation. If
> I'm in the minority, 
> however, I guess I'd rather change it as well. Am I
> really in the 
> minority?
> 
> 
>