tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-198294392012-02-03T02:47:45.631-08:00Michaelnoreply@blogger.comBlogger11100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19829439.post-1135176900480524422005-12-21T06:37:00.000-08:002012-02-03T02:47:45.648-08:00Interesting.<br /><br />According to the following article:<br /><br /><a href="http://today.reuters.com/news/newsArticle.aspx?type=worldNews&amp;storyID=2005-12-21T142136Z_01_SPI150511_RTRUKOC_0_US-ISRAEL-HAMAS.xml">http://today.reuters.com/news/newsArticle.aspx?type=worldNews&amp;storyID=2005-12-21T142136Z_01_SPI150511_RTRUKOC_0_US-ISRAEL-HAMAS.xml</a><br /><br />something like 50% of Israelis would be prepared to talk with Hamas.<br /><br />Sort of makes me wonder how many people I need to...never mind...before the Israelis would be willing to talk with me.<br /><br />The first and last reply I ever received to the probably hundreds of communications I have sent to Israel over the past 26 years was from a teacher at the Neve Yerushalayim School for Women, probably between November, 1981 and March, 1982. I was taking a Hebrew class taught by Shalom Shamai at the time and anticipating the outbreak of a war with Lebanon; and I had sent a series of probably three (maybe four) cassette tapes to each of probably 7 Schools of Torah in Jerusalem explaining that the "resurrection" is a Doctrine of Rebirth.<br /><br />Hers was the only reply I ever received.<br /><br />I told her that I simply did not have the money to send her "additional tapes"; but I gave her permission to copy the tapes as much as she wanted.<br /><br />Her name was Shoshanna Emanuel.<br /><br />Michael<div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/19829439-113517690048052442?l=stopthewarwithiran.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Michaelnoreply@blogger.com