User:WikiMafia2

Line breaks in Israel
I would like to remind you that forced line breaks (using   tags) are not supposed to be used in the middle of prose in an article. --  tariq abjotu  18:49, 9 August 2007 (UTC)

WikiProject Tel Aviv
I put this on WikiProject Council/Proposals and thought you might like to join. Sahmsidea 05:38, 3 September 2007 (UTC)

New page about Israel and the UN
Hello TelAviv1, you recently edited the page Israel and the United Nations. I invite you to have a look at my rewrite of this subject, Israel, Palestine and the United Nations. I intend to replace the first with the second. Let me know what you think. Emmanuelm 14:49, 18 September 2007 (UTC)

Aliyah
I believe this template should be removed from Israel because it does not link to the article. --  tariq abjotu  14:48, 19 September 2007 (UTC)


 * Actually, I see it does link to Israel in the template's header. I think I have another solution. --  tariq abjotu  14:54, 19 September 2007 (UTC)

I'm sorry to have given offense
I meant my comments only to address the probable outcome of the Israel article being considered for featured status, but clearly I ought to have let the metaphor go before I did. Tegwarrior 15:26, 25 September 2007 (UTC)

Israel intro
Please note that the intro posted in Talk was a temporary backup waiting for things to be added, as I invited. When looking on to countries with ancient pasts, such as Japan and Greece, a good part of history is devoted to it. I dont want the history of Israel to be so mixed up with the history of the Arab-Israeli conflict. I am working on editing an intro. Would you be willing to help and make suggestions? --Shamir1 23:00, 25 September 2007 (UTC)

Stop removing external links form arctiles
This is considered vandalism. --TRFA 15:10, 26 September 2007 (UTC)

RFC discussion of User:Shamir1
A request for comments has been filed concerning the conduct of. You are invited to comment on the discussion at Requests for comment/Shamir1. -- --  tariq abjotu  03:49, 16 October 2007 (UTC)

history
please look at my latest contribution maybe you'll find an interst in discussions I am having. Zeq 20:58, 21 October 2007 (UTC)

Greetings

 * Hello Telaviv1. Well, that's nice of you! But I'm afraid that to give details about myself would be a violation of WP:Fringe since I appear to many as a crashing pedantic bore! I would reply to your query, but I fear that in doing so, someone might edit out my remarks by noting that they do not come from a WP:Reliable Source! I will say this, that my father fought on the right side in WW2, and brought back vivid memories of Palestine, and I had a wonderful time in both Israel and contiguous areas for several months as a young man, everywhere from Gaza city to the Golan, from the Sinai to Jerusalem. Shalom uv'rakhah/salaam. Best regards Nishidani 10:36, 22 October 2007 (UTC)

Israeli Media
The Israeli press is dominated by three newspapaers, the intellectual and left-leaning Haaretz, and two more populist papers, Yediot Ahronot (which claims about 70% of readership) and Maariv. A military censor exists with the right to prevent articles being published if they are certain that an article will damage national security. Journalists can protest to the high court. In practise the censorship is easily circumvented, though editors generally abide by its decisions.

Over two thirds of Israelis have access to the internet and, although newspaper readership remains high, there has been a decline in newspaper sales as many people have switiched to reading the news online.

In addition to the Hebrew press there are Arabic newspapers and a large Russian language press as well as newspapers in Yiddish, English and French. Television was introduced to Israel in 1968, out of concern that the newly occupied Palestinian territories would recieve most of their news from neighbouring Arab states. The national TV station is funded by a license fee. In 1993 a second channel funded by advertising went live. There is also one cable service ( Hot) and one sattelite service ( Yes). Most Israelis subscribe to one of these services which relay a wide variety of programs including broadcasts from across the Arab world and Europe.

A tag has been placed on Jonathan lowenstein, requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done under the criteria for speedy deletion, because it is a very short article providing no content to the reader. Please note that external links, "See also" section, book reference, category tag, template tag, interwiki link, rephrasing of the title, or an attempt to contact the subject of the article don't count as content. Please see Wikipedia:Stub for our minimum information standards for short articles. Also please note that articles must be on notable subjects and should provide references to reliable sources that verify their content.

Please do not remove the speedy deletion tag yourself. If you plan to expand the article, you can request that administrators wait a while for you to add contextual material. To do this, affix the template   to the page and state your intention on the article's talk page. Feel free to leave a note on my talk page if you have any questions about this. VivioFa teFan  (Talk, Sandbox) 10:59, 28 October 2007 (UTC)
 * Our apologies if you were intending to expand this article but you made an inauspicious start with two serious mistakes: the title should be Jonathan Lowenstein and you do not copy & paste the infobox: you transclude it thus: State of Israel. -- RHaworth 17:55, 28 October 2007 (UTC)
 * Just seen your comment on another user_talk page. For drafts, you use user:Telaviv1/sandbox (or any other title that starts "user:Telaviv1/"). -- RHaworth 18:19, 28 October 2007 (UTC)

Zionism
While your improvements to the article are greatly appreciated, if you could help find some sources, that would be great; the history section (and the entire article for that matter) needs to be completely sourced if it is ever going to make it to WP:FA status.  Yahel  Guhan  01:33, 7 November 2007 (UTC)

pappe / finkelstein
Please stop this edit war:

According to Finkelstein the consensus among serious historians is that there was an ethnic cleansing. --JaapBoBo 13:57, 11 November 2007 (UTC)

jewishvirtuallibrary
You are calling jewishvrituallibrary an unreliable source, however it just gives the text of an Arab League declaration and there is no reason to assume that it is not reliable. So please stop reverting. --JaapBoBo 14:00, 11 November 2007 (UTC)

Its a misleading statement as the paritition granted the palestinians self-dtermination. the article is not about the Palestinians but about Israel. If you want to discuss it raise it on the talk page first. Telaviv1 14:06, 11 November 2007 (UTC)

Re; History of Israel
I am pretty good with research. Can you be specific in what you are looking for or wondering about? --Shamir1 04:42, 12 November 2007 (UTC)

Hats off
Your reply on the History of Israel page is spot on, as the Brits say. It should framed.--Gilabrand (talk) 14:27, 22 November 2007 (UTC)

Latrun assaults
Hi, I am looking the army compositions of the forces that assaulted (and defended) Latrun during the 6 assaults of 1948. I have them for Bin Nun A but not for the others. Would you have them (with referenes). I guess, maybe wrongly that you have the book of David Tal about the War of 1948. I think it could be there... Thank you, Ceedjee (talk) 19:14, 22 November 2007 (UTC)

army sizes 1948 in 'History of Israel'
Please put accurate texts (back) in the article: [] --JaapBoBo (talk) 12:49, 25 November 2007 (UTC)

I see no reason to doubt the figures given by Tal. He gives a period for his figures whle the figures you cite don't say to which period they refer. Perhaps you could check your sources to see where they get their figures from? that is what sources they cite? This might help see how reliable they are.

A lot of Palestinian fighters were peasants and I doubt that anyone really knows how many of them were involved, while Jewish forces were clearly growing all the time as they inducted people and immigrants arrived. i think it makes sense to inform the reader that these figures are not reliable and that different opinions exist.

Telaviv1 (talk) 13:05, 25 November 2007 (UTC)
 * Lets talk about it on the articles talk page. --JaapBoBo (talk) 18:13, 25 November 2007 (UTC)

Biltmore program paragraph 5
Did you add this ref?

Do you have a link to the text, or a book in which it was published. In this way the ref is a bit unsatisfying.

Thx, --JaapBoBo (talk) 21:40, 26 November 2007 (UTC)
 * thx --JaapBoBo (talk) 16:36, 27 November 2007 (UTC)

POV pushing and edit warring
You have been making some inappropriate edits to a number of articles, and I have reverted them. Instead of acting in good faith by attempting to dialog and raise consensus on the talk page, you have instead engaged in edit warring by re-insterting the disputed content (at least at Anti-Zionism). I ask you now to please stop. It is more than fine to make bold edits, but if you get reverted, the right and proper thing to do is to go to the talk page and make your proposal there. It is never ok to re-insert your controversial content, if an editor in good faith has reverted you. Please take this under consideration in the future, and try to work with the community, instead of fighting and edit warring. Thanks for your consideration.-Andrew c [talk] 16:38, 29 November 2007 (UTC)

mentioning sources
Hi Tel Aviv,

I'd appreciate if you could add references to sources to your edits. It's not that I doubt your edits, on the contrary, they look like they are from reliable sources. So why not mention them? Thx, --JaapBoBo (talk) 20:20, 18 December 2007 (UTC)

Happy Holidays
, Happy holidays, and Happy New Year See you next year.  Yahel  Guhan  23:33, 16 December 2007 (UTC)

Regarding Talk:Israel
Please don't feed the troll. Don't try to reason with him, he seems incapable of that. No matter what you write, he'll either ignore it, or turn it around so that he's right and you're wrong, regardless of the facts. Ignoring him isn't much of a choice either, since he'll just open more and more rants, until the talk page is 300 gigabytes long. I suggest you help prevent him from adding more of his rants. okedem (talk) 17:17, 26 December 2007 (UTC)

anti-Semitism
If this really concerns you, be aware that there are actual anti'Semites actively editing Wikipedia, e.g. this example Slrubenstein  |  Talk 02:57, 29 December 2007 (UTC)

FYI + Qu

 * [Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Zionist attitudes toward the Palestinian Arabs] Ceedjee (talk) 13:08, 2 January 2008 (UTC)
 * That sounds a little bit not neutral - the didn't vote to that even if that was a goal of Zionism. What is your reasonning ? Ceedjee (talk) 13:10, 2 January 2008 (UTC)

welcome to Wikipedia
Zeq (talk) 19:27, 4 February 2008 (UTC)

Techshoret conference
Hi, will you be at the Techshoret conference in Jerusalem this Thursday? (28/2) I'll be there. John Hyams (talk) 17:12, 26 February 2008 (UTC)

Jews in Estonia (1918-1940) (1991-...)
Hello, could you help me finding materials about Jewish cultural autonomosy in Estonia before the Soviet and Nazi occupation? Im looking for the book or article about Jews honouring the Republic of Estonia in the terms of allowing on the state level and by the state order a cultural automoasy for the Estonian-Jews. I cant remember the books name - it was created before the foundation of the modern Israeli State. Said thanks to Estonia for allowing such autonomosy etc. Karabinier (talk) 20:36, 7 March 2008 (UTC)