NI Ship Name

At 05:52 PM 1/29/2004 -0800, you wrote:
>Date: Thu, 29 Jan 2004 07:47:39 -0500
>From: Noam Izenberg <noam.izenberg@jhuapl.edu>
>Subject: Re: [OFFICIAL] NEW FT SHIPS!!
>
>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?

Keep the name. This arguement could be made for several other ship
names, 
and it would be equally silly. It's not like we -have- a series 
of     Atrocity-class vessels, or anything.

Noah

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