http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demographic_history_of_Palestine#Travelers.27_impressions_of_19th-century_Palestine

Karimo, znáte ty často uváděné citace právě Marka Twaina, které mají dokazovat, že Palestinci jsou jen takoví všeničící humusáci?

No on ale pak pokračuje a popisuje něco zcela jiného ( dodnes jsem netušil, že jsou jeho věty cenzurovány – ale ten stav znám ):

These descriptions of the often quoted non-arable areas few people would inhabit are as Twain says, “by contrast” to occasional scenes of arable land and productive agriculture: “The narrow canon in which Nablous, or Shechem, is situated, is under high cultivation, and the soil is exceedingly black and fertile. It is well watered, and its affluent vegetation gains effect by contrast with the barren hills that tower on either side”…”Sometimes, in the glens, we came upon luxuriant orchards of figs, apricots, pomegranates, and such things, but oftener the scenery was rugged, mountainous, verdureless and forbidding”…”We came finally to the noble grove of orange-trees in which the Oriental city of Jaffa lies buried”…”Small shreds and patches of it must be very beautiful in the full flush of spring, however, and all the more beautiful by contrast with the far-reaching desolation that surrounds them on every side

Prznit historii a její protagonisty, tak to umíme na jedničku.