[North-NV-Greens] Fwd: [usgp-dx] A Joke

[Paul Etxeberri]

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>This is from a book about the roots of the conflict in
>the Middle East:
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>Arabic, a language as steeped in humor as in faith,
>has no illusions about the desert.  One adage tells of
>how, when God created the Sudan, He laughed; another
>of how, when He created Arabia, He wasn't thinking.
>When He created the jewel that is Lebanon, the
>Lebanese were frankly amazed.  What had they done,
>they asked, to deserve a land so well endowed with
>spreading cedars, golden beaches and cool mountain
>breezes?  Ah, said God, but wait until you see who I
>am giving you as neighbors.
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-- 
Paul Etxeberri

"Forests precede civilizations and deserts follow"   ---Chateaubriand