What's not normal about the Golan?
Chave, my wife, received a phone call today from a customer service center in Jerusalem.
The background is that someone sent us a large package from abroad and it was supposed to be delivered to us. The thing, though, is that we live in the Golan Heights. And I don't think this gift company, nor the shipping agency, took the Golan into consideration when they claimed that they would send items to anywhere in Israel free of charge.
So the agent asked Chave where we could pick up the package.
"What do you mean? Send it to our home," was my wife's logical response.
The customer service agent got pushy and tried to get us to pick up the package somewhere else and asked for a "normal" location.
Can you believe this chutzpa? First of all, they said they send it to anywhere in Israel. Second of all, the Golan is as blue and white as any other part of this country - and I hope it stays that way for ever.
In the end, I think they are going to send it to the main post office in Qatzrin.
Go Chave! Go Golan!
13 comments:
Amen!!! Once a northener, always a northener.
I love every place...that I visit on the Golan...and everywhere else..
in Israel
Lou (Louis the scooterer)
might i suggest a reason?
Maybe its not Israeli territory, well at least for the rest of the world...
regardless, nice blog, although it is ironic [in a sad way] that I'd have to read about life in golan here...
cheers
Double Take & Louis: Thanks for your support.
Yazan: As the first Syrian to comment on my blog, I want to say thank you for your comments.
I think you probably saw what I wrote on Global Voices this evening(http://www.globalvoicesonline.org/2007/05/29/israel-whats-wrong-with-golan/). If not, I want to express the last point again - to you and my other readers:
I look forward to the day when we are at peace with our Syrian neighbors and can trust them enough to allow them into our country. Amen.
Shmuel - That day would also include the opportunity to visit the historic city of Damascus, hang out with Yazan and listen to the Chilli Peppers and all the other great music he listens too.
Sorry I had this damn package sent; I didn't mean to start a geopolitical dialogue.
Aryeh
Shauel,
yes i saw it on GV, i am Syria author there.
I am not here to start a political debate thats obviously going nowhere.
so, I'll just agree on the first part [i.e. looking forward for peace, a jumping up and down in an rhcp concert] knowing full well how impossible that is, so far as you genuinely [i will assume that] believe that the golan is your country...
Nonetheless, As one of our greatest play writers once said, "We are condemned to hope..."
cheers
*Shmuel
sorry for the typo
big chutzpa of them to try to waffle on that...
Are you sure the Golan is part of Israel?
http://joesettler.blogspot.com/2007/05/when-did-israel-begin-to-hate-golan.html
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