Thursday, July 16, 2009

The Ultimate Anecdote Explaining the Arab-Israeli Conflict


Here's the ultimate story on the Arab-Israeli conflict. And it's true, too. A professor at Bar-Ilan University was standing next to an Egyptian colleague at a conference. To show how Israelis were so empathetic and fair-minded, always ready to compromise, he turned to the Egyptian and said:

"You know, at my university we have a research center called the Begin-Sadat Center, named after the leaders at the time of Israel and Egypt."

The Egyptian professor thought about it for a moment and then said:

"Very nice....But why Begin?"

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