Ops & Blogs | The Times of Israel » Robert Friebe http://blogs.timesofisrael.com The Marketplace of Ideas Thu, 20 Jun 2013 02:40:33 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 Line is line: A nitpicking German perspective on Israelis http://blogs.timesofisrael.com/a-nitpicking-german-perspective-on-israelis/ http://blogs.timesofisrael.com/a-nitpicking-german-perspective-on-israelis/#comments Mon, 14 Jan 2013 10:10:39 +0000 Robert Friebe http://blogs.timesofisrael.com/?p=94378 I admit that we Germans are often very fussy. Sometimes it is funny, for example when the German Civil Code regulates the ownership of a beehive with ridiculously sounding articles like: “Where a swarm of bees takes flight, it becomes ownerless if the owner fails to pursue it without undue delay or if he gives up [...]

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]]> http://blogs.timesofisrael.com/a-nitpicking-german-perspective-on-israelis/feed/ 1 The Missing Link: On the Widening Gap in German-Israeli Relations http://blogs.timesofisrael.com/the-missing-link-on-the-widening-gap-in-german-israeli-relations/ http://blogs.timesofisrael.com/the-missing-link-on-the-widening-gap-in-german-israeli-relations/#comments Thu, 13 Dec 2012 23:25:20 +0000 Robert Friebe http://blogs.timesofisrael.com/?p=86056 When I decided to come to Israel for my master studies, my friends demonstrated a mixture of astonishment and consternation. “What do you have to do with this belligerent people?” was just one reaction from this side. A sentence like “wow, that’s amazing to study there!” was an absolute rarity. But how should they possibly [...]

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