- Sa-pa is a beautiful place in northern Vietnam. A peaceful
market town nestled between green mountains, streams and rice terraces.
Colorful birds fly around in the misty air, and several pigs and a stubborn
water buffalo can be spotted in the distance.
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- For the Israeli tourist, the place hosts another animal
the local women of the Hmong tribe, dressed in black, who have learned
to recite a children's song in Hebrew, and sing it repeatedly in the hope
that the visiting overlord might agree to buy a handicraft from them for
several pennies.
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- If you continue the trek a little further, you can encounter
the women of the Dao tribe, who have learned to say "Come and fuck
me" in Hebrew. Yes, Rabbi Ovadia Yosef was right these women's
teachers were asses. No, actually why insult the asses? Their teachers
were plain Israelis like me and you.
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- The global traveling season is now at its peak. Hordes
of tourists are storming Thailand and Laos, South America and Kenya. And
the battle has already been decided. The Israeli, any Israeli, has become
an icon of evilness, ugliness, corruption and exploitation. There is no
use searching for ways to change the behavior of Israelis abroad. This
is a lost cause.
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- Worsening reputation
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- Travel Independent (<http://www.travelindependent.info/>www.travelindependent.info)
is the online Mecca for tourists worldwide. The website offers accurate,
concise and helpful reviews on any destination in the world.
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- And this is what the site has to say about us in its
summary on India: "Aside from Indians you will find travels from all
over Europe, USA and Australia/NZ, including as in Nepal/Thailand and South
America, a large number of Israelis many of whom are fresh out of the army
and seem to do everything they can to further worsen their reputation with
locals and foreigners alike."
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- Travel Independent isn't anti-Semitic. As a travel destination,
it gives Israel very warm recommendations. The Hmong women aren't anti-Semitic
as well, and neither are the people of Japan, Peru or Tanzania, or most
of the western travelers who witness this humiliation.
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- A new form of hatred towards Israelis is developing among
people who don't even have a clue where the country is. An "anti-Semitism"
that has nothing to do with God or Judaism.
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- Years of cultural corruption
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- For his part, the Israeli traveler goes out of his way
not to be identified as an Israeli, not due to security concerns but simply
for fear he will not be welcome. And he makes great efforts not to go where
other Israelis go, not for the sake of exclusiveness, but simply because
he knows that his countrymen will be the first ones to screw him over.
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- The Israeli pig is the product of years-long and ongoing
cultural corruption. He will force the locals to watch episodes from the
reality show "the Big Brother" and give them Israeli nick-names
just for laughs.
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- His language is poor, and he is utterly uninterested
in broadening his horizons. He is hostile towards Arabs and hostile towards
foreigners in general and feels obligated to cheat them whenever he can
(empty the open buffet; sneak six people into a double room at night so
as not to come out "a sucker.") He takes over drug and women
trafficking hubs just for the sense of power and bullying.
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- And this image can no longer be altered. Look at them
and see us: a violent horde that treats the world as yet another policing
mission, a destination that needs to be conquered and subdued.
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- No wonder that in Hebrew the verb "to do" refers
both to the act of sexual conquest and to the completion of the Israeli
traveler's tough, military-style trip abroad: "I did Bolivia."
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- http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3630144,00.html
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