Re: [OFFICIAL] NEW FT SHIPS!!

From: Jared Hilal <jlhilal@yahoo.com>
Subject: Re: [OFFICIAL] NEW FT SHIPS!!

> Might there be someone who
> doesn't care at all about our hobby but just runs across the name on
> the store website and causes bad press?  Might there be American or
> Canadian or Austrailian FT players of Lebanese descent or origin who
> might take offense?

I'l agree with Laserlight's and others' comments that those who look 
for offense will find it. Moerso, they will have already found it 
before finding any specific ship class name in FT. In addition, in the 
end, I take issue with the original point. Sabra in particular has been 
and continues to be more associated in most places with the definition 
"native Israeli" than with the specific event at the Lebanese camp. I 
would argue that those places where the most common association is 
otherwise would be generally unhappy with the concept of New Israel and 
of the portrayal of IF in Full Thrust FH.

FYI, Lightning in Hebrew is "barak". That's the BC class in my NI 
fleet, and also a (great?, dismal? offensive?) recent PM of Israel. I 
suppose there'll be trouble with the Ben Gurion DN, and the Tzion 
(Zion) CVH as well (though I was actually thinking of changing the 
class name to Herzl - not much of an improvement to some, I imagine).

NI    ("We are the Knights who say...")