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Greater Lebanon

Hello. Thank you for creating that nice article. You can certainly remove it from list of Missing Middle Eastern articles. It's sad that such a beautiful country is again ruined and again by the same army. - Darwinek 19:20, 3 August 2006 (UTC)

over-categorising

The interwiki link to an uncreated Hebrew wiki article (such as on Warren's Gate is misleading and not constructive. --Shuki 20:16, 30 August 2006 (UTC)

Shuki Shalom!

Glad to work with you, but on this point i disagree. i have found that, sadly, on Jewish and Eretz Yisrael topics the English wiki often surpasses the Hebrew one, both in quantity and quality (many thanks to you!) . For that reason and others, i strive to encourage Anglo wikipeds that are also proficient in Hebrew to help the quality "flow" from the English wiki to the Hebrew one. Or perhaps Israelis might copy from the English one, taking my "direction".

So i see what i did similar to the List of regional councils in Israel you wrote, still mostly red, with links to Hebrew sites, allowing for bilinguals to assist, eventually.

may we have a year of peace & victory. perhaps we could meet/talk sometime,

Shilonite 21:43, 31 August 2006 (UTC)

About the Heb wiki, ma la'asot. It's ruled by a few super-admins who, while performing much chesed with spending a lot of time trying to keep it a quality place and generally keep it somewhat NVPOV, though it's their POV that is NPOV there. Natan Zada is a confirmed terrorist and premeditated murderer according to them and there is nothing you can do about that. I don't really bother trying to improve that one. Who wants to spend half the time arguing and justifying editing? Too bad for them.

In any case, while 'redlinks' show up on the eng wiki, interwiki links do not record a missing heb page, and actually mislead you to think that it exists which does not really encourage anyone to go make one. The list of reg councils links to external links, not to the heb wiki. --Shuki 14:39, 1 September 2006 (UTC)

Yes

--Shuki 18:16, 2 September 2006 (UTC)

Lehi

Lehi (group) Note that the page is infringing on many wikipedia policies, and the recent one is extreme WP:POV of opinions stated as facts and in the intro page ! many other issues were addresed by me but are being reverted by a few members. Please take note of this ! very annoying no doubt. Amoruso 16:36, 11 September 2006 (UTC) Last good version is from 16:28...

Israel related issues

Posted somethings here, wonder if it's accessed regularly by users. such as this [1]. Amoruso 01:51, 22 September 2006 (UTC)

Hello

Thanks! How do I write to you? and where am I supposed to "tell us about yourself". Thanks Atbannett 07:19, 7 November 2006 (UTC)

ישראלי או פלסטיני?

לא הבנתי אם אתה ישראלי או פלסטיני. GOER 11:26, 6 December 2006 (UTC)

Caution about the way you are using "Palestine"

Hi Shilonite: As you well know, the word "Palestine" is highly controversial and subject to interpretation. You have recently created a number of articles [2] and categories [3] whereby you place subjects connected to the Torah and Judaism that have absolutely nothing to do with the modern notions of "Palestine" Kindly refrain from lumping topics in a way that places in them in the categories of modern-day "Palestine", when they should in fact be part of the Jewish state of Israel and Judaism. Thank you. IZAK 10:03, 19 December 2006 (UTC)

Not using "Palestine" or "Palestinian" for Talmud and rabbis to avoid confusion

Note: Many articles about the rabbis of the Talmud and Mishnah are derived from the archaic Jewish Encyclopedia, published between 1901-1906, over one hundred years ago (when the Middle East was still under the thumb of the Ottoman Turks) and which used the archaic expressions "Palestine" when referring to the Land of Israel, and to the Jews living in the areas of the historical Land of Israel as "Palestinians." This is a big mistake that requires constant attention and correction, especially when copying and editing articles from the Jewish Encyclopedia or from similarly archaic sources such as Easton's Bible Dictionary (1897). At this time, no-one uses the term/s "Palestinian/s" (in relation to anything associated with Jews or the land they lived in and which they regarded as their homeland) nor by any type of conventional Jewish scholarship, particularly at the present time when the label "Palestinian" is almost entirely identified with the Palestinian Arabs who are mostly Muslims. Finally, kindly take note that the name Palestinian Talmud is also not used and it redirects to the conventional term Jerusalem Talmud used in Jewish scholarship. Thank you. IZAK 13:41, 19 December 2006 (UTC)

Not using "Palestine" or "Palestinian" for Talmud and rabbis

Makes sense, I'll try to remember. However, there was a period when everyone referred to the land of Israel as Palestine. Therefore, to say something like "in 1940 Shlomo Pines emigrated to Israel" would appear to be an anachronism. Don't we have to use the term "Palestine" during a certain period for historical accuracy? What is this period? From Roman conquest until 1948? Thanks. Dfass 15:03, 19 December 2006 (UTC)

• Hi Dfass: Note: The term "Land of Israel" is an old one of Biblical origin, whereas the name "Palestine" is considered offensive by many Jews because it was coined by the Romans after they crushed the Jews of Judea-- and needless to say today it refers exclusively to the Arab Palestinians and never to Jews. Note also that the "Land of Israel" article is not the same as the "Israel" article because the latter refers to the modern post-1948 Jewish state. My main concern was about rabbis from the Mishnaic and Talmudic eras, up until about a hundred years ago being called "Palestinians" on Wikipedia as a follow-through from the many articles that have been copied and pasted from the old Jewish Encyclopedia and which collectively create the wrong impression. Such are the hazards of relying on dated information, long-discarded terminology, and unsuitable writing and communication styles. Wikipedia as a modern encyclopedia should not be relying on archaic terms such as "Palestinian rabbis" that could potentially cause grave misunderstanding. I think that from the time of the British Mandate of Palestine, also shortened to "the British Mandate" and sometimes "Palestine," that Jews were associated with those terms from 1923 until 1948 when the modern State of Israel was declared. I hope that you have noted that I am most definitely NOT saying that whenever the Jewish Encyclopedia uses the term "Palestine" that the single word "Israel" should be used -- obviously I do not mean that because when Israel is used alone on Wikipedia it refers to the MODERN State of Israel only. On the other hand, what I am saying is that when the word "Palestine" is used in archaic sources that predate modern Israel, and when writing about Judaic topics that relate to the Middle Ages, Talmudic, or Biblical times, then the better, more accurate, less controversial term for Wikipedia to use is "Land of Israel" which is historically what the Jewish people, and everyone else in academic life, have and do still call it. Hope I have clarified myself, and thanks for caring. IZAK 12:06, 20 December 2006 (UTC)
  • OK, I think I get the drift. I will pay attention to it in the future. (Don't be so down on the Jewish Encyclopedia though! It's an incredible work, written by some tremendous scholars. I think these articles significantly raise the quality of Wikipedia, whether their English is somewhat archaic or not. If you compare a JE-borrowed Wikipedia article to one written by "the masses," you can't but be struck by the difference in quality and scholarship. The typical Jewish Wikipedian (myself included) is not capable of producing articles of anything like that caliber. Most Wikipedians cannot even be bothered to cite the sources for the couple of factoids they manage to dredge up from their memory of 10th grade.) Thanks again for the clarification. Dfass 15:16, 20 December 2006 (UTC)
    • Hi Dfass: I am not down on the old Jewish Encyclopedia at all, and I fully agree with you that it is a more than masterly work of scholarship. But is was written in the context of the culture of over a hundred years ago as a product of the nineteenth century! My specific concern at this stage was only about how the meaning and application of the word/s "Palestine" and "Palestinian" are getting "lost in the cut-and-paste process" because one hundred years ago, "Palestinian" was used as an academic adjective as for example, together with "rabbis" ("Palestinian rabbi/s") or the Talmud ("Palestinian Talmud"). Up until 1948 the words "Palestine" and "Palestinians" still had application/s to Jews because of the existaence of the British Mandate of Palestine until 1948 in the territories of historically Jewish Land of Israel. Since then, the name "Palestine" and "Palestinians" has shed any connection to Jews and the modern Jewish State of Israel which was set up in contradistinction to an Arab Palestine. Particularly since the rise of the PLO (the Palestine Liberation Organization), following the 1967 Six-Day War, the term and notion of "Palestine" and "Palestinians" has become thoroughly and exclusively connected with the Arab Palestinians to the point that no-one (not in politics, academics, the media, religion, etc) associates the name "Palestine" and "Palestinians" with the Jews or Judaism, so that it can safely be said that the notion of a "Palestinian Jew" is an archaic anachronistic discarded notion. So when cutting and pasting articles from the one hundred year old Jewish Encyclopedia, one should not fall into a "time warp trap" by blindly pasting articles from it without some sensible updates, and not to inadvertantly recreate and foster terminology for Jews and Jewish Israelis that neither they nor the world accepts or recognizes. One needs to be conscious that the term "Land of Israel" is a well-established name that has survived for a long time and is still the preferred term of choice when speaking in modern terms, so that Jews not be confused with Arabs and vice versa. By speaking of the Category:Rabbis of the Land of Israel, meaning rabbis (or any Jews) associated with a historic geographic area, one also avoids problems such as calling pre-1948 rabbis or people "Israelites" -- used only for people in the Biblical era or "Israelis" -- which refers to citizens of the modern State of Israel. Thanks for your input. IZAK 07:28, 21 December 2006 (UTC)

Settlements

Questions have come up over the definition of 'Settlement' and Category:Settlements as a place where people live (cities, towns, villages, etc) Do you have any information that could help here? Thanks Hmains 20:26, 19 January 2007 (UTC)

יאס"א

האם אתה למדת ביאס"א?

Palestinian rabbis

Do you still think Palestinian Jews have a right to be known as such? Please comment at the rfc. Thanks. Chesdovi (talk) 00:37, 12 May 2011 (UTC)

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