"Isnt the wording over the entrance to the cave a bit mixed up? I always thought that the phrase was "Abandon all hope, ye who enter here.""
I think that's the inscription above the entrance to hell in Dante's "Inferno"; I don't know if it was original to Dante or if it went back earlier to classical mythology. I'll defer to someone knowledgeable about mideaeval and ancient languages as to what the best translation of the phrase is. :-)
"[...]should pull out of the mideast and stop helping Isreal keep the Palestineans from getting a permanent homeland."
Well, I don't think the two need to be exclusive; I'd like to see some sort of arrangement that respects the rights of both the Israelis and the Palestinians to live in that region. Of course it's very difficult so long as many in both groups think that their legitimate historical claims to live in the land of their ancestors somehow lessens or negates the similar legitmate claims of the other.
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"Isnt the wording over the entrance to the cave a bit mixed up? I always thought that the phrase was "Abandon all hope, ye who enter here.""
I think that's the inscription above the entrance to hell in Dante's "Inferno"; I don't know if it was original to Dante or if it went back earlier to classical mythology. I'll defer to someone knowledgeable about mideaeval and ancient languages as to what the best translation of the phrase is. :-)
"[...]should pull out of the mideast and stop helping Isreal keep the Palestineans from getting a permanent homeland."
Well, I don't think the two need to be exclusive; I'd like to see some sort of arrangement that respects the rights of both the Israelis and the Palestinians to live in that region. Of course it's very difficult so long as many in both groups think that their legitimate historical claims to live in the land of their ancestors somehow lessens or negates the similar legitmate claims of the other.
Cheers, -- F.