What a great blog he has. How is it that I never knew about it until now?

You solved all the Middle East's problems in three hours? Do tell. I still haven't figured it out.

Three hours, eh? That must have been some wine! :-)

I definitely want some of whatever it was that you guys were drinking! :)Thank you for turning me on to this blog treasure. He's an amazing writer. Linking, linking :)

Ditto on the great link.

Ditto on the wine - then again, many mysteries of the universe have been solved while under the influence. Pity we can never replicate that thinking while sober.

Prey tell, that we may listen! :))

What a great blog he has! An excellent storyteller - I bet you had a great afternoon.

Okay, are you... like...in love or something?

You're making us all jealous!!!

We, Lebanese, have this effect on people. Or is it the wine? lol
A refreshing post and a great link,
cheers.

You know I find your 'we're all a big middle eastern community' outlook to be very positive.
All the wackos make the news but you're making a difference with your blog. That's cool.

Most citizens on opposite sides of any border would live in peace. There may be some squabbles from time to time, but that is normal enough in families, between brother and sister.

It takes groups of greedy and powerful men who form militant groups and / or governments to whip up hatred in citizens to the killing level.

Would it surprise you in Israel and Lebanon that some *vested interests* in Canada and the USA sometimes express hatred for each other?

Our recently defeated members of our Liberal government dared to express hate for things US.
It was a ploy to win votes by showing defiance and independance.

There is no measure of hate between CITIZENS of Canada and the USA, but during the election campaign, many of the uninformed were led to believe that hatred was real.

Politicians want to have power and influence and they will stoop to any deception of the people to get it. Deception works because so many citizens are busy. Busy working to pay bills and eat properly. Many are not motivated to learn about politics.

Politicians and groups like Hizbullah and Hamas know that and use it to gain power and control.

Politicians here in Canada and the USA manipulate the people also. Misguided feelings of hate can be stirred up here but not to the killing level as in some other parts of the world. TG

It's handy when you can solve all the world's problems but I suppose it's not that difficult when you can conceptualize it between two people. This gives me hope that the world does make sense -there is a purpose to things. It's just that when you get a few more people around and no wine and it's raining and there are bombs dropping and you speak foreign languages that there are too many distractions to hear what the other person is trying to say. But this, here, when you get a taste of another person's personality and you just listen, it's a beautiful thing. It would have been nice to hear what you discussed.

I'm glad you're building so many promising relations with neighbors, friends and nomads in your home away from home.