Kerry Defends Israël and Blasts UN council... but....

[mylye2222]

http://in.mobile.reuters.com/article/idINKBN0LY11C20150302?irpc=932

But meanwhile Netanyahu distorts Kerrys words in speech to Congress re. Iran.

And remeber how for months mast years Sec .Kerry was under attack from the most extremist Israeli Cabinet members...

All of that shows how far the Pro Israel RWingers, such like AIPAC hold their grip on American Middle East politics... Even the current Sec.Of State cannot chose another way publicly... Really really frightening.
And not only in America.

After the last January attacks French president Hollande has expressed his wish to not see Bibi attend Unity rally. But anyway he came unovited...with the help from ultra Zionist organosations quxh as Betar, JDL and even the French Representative Jewish Organisations Council , the CRIF. And nontheless...our own RWers.

[Erich Bloodaxe BSN]

1. Sort of offtopic, but what's with the umlaut over the e?

And how did you get it there? I've got a standard US keyboard, with no umlaut key(s), but I play on a German online rpg server, and being able to type umlauts would make my conversations there a lot easier. Is there a way to do some sort of keyboard mapping shift, so that I could apply something and then simply hit alt-a, alt-o, etc to get my umlauts?

[mylye2222]

2. I do write from my smartphone...

And my keyboard is French characters and peedicrive moded. And here we do write Israel like this.

[Vox Populi]

3. it's not an umlaut

in english the two dots are a diaeresis. It looks like an umlaut but has a different function. It is used when two vowels are together to tell the reader that the vowels are separate and not a diphthong. it's no longer common but used to in words like reenter, for example, when it would be placed over the second e so it is pronounced re- enter. if we use anything these days, it most likely is a hyphen instead.

[treestar]

4. Cool.

Thanks for that info.

do you think we pronounce Israel with a diphthong? The typical American that is. My guess is that we do. In church maybe they will separate the syllables out. Like in the hymn with "born is the ki-ing of I-is-re-el"

[Vox Populi]

6. i don't think so

i think everybody says Israel with three syllables (IS- RAY - UL) so the diaeresis would be redundant even if we still used them in the language.

[FSogol]

7. In Windows, you can type these letters using Alt and a numeral

Here's a short list, but there are more:

http://symbolcodes.tlt.psu.edu/accents/codealt.html#accent

I had to look these up once since S. American keyboards didn't have an @ symbol in the 90s.

[Erich Bloodaxe BSN]

8. Ahhh

I'd seen something similar, but thought it was only useful in writing html (it had the ampersands). I'll give that a shot, and see if linux has something similar. Thanks.

[treestar]

5. It is kind of strange

Everybody down to Elizabeth Warren defends the idea that we have to support Israel. And yet I get a feeling on the grass roots people are starting to question it. The idea they have universal health care while we don't and give them money bugs me.