Bornholm’s supposed to be very pretty. The natives are of French descent and therefore speak a dialect not related to Danish.
You can get very good fish at the Baltic; go straight to the harbours as most fishermen’s unions sell right there. It doesn’t get fresher than that. I suggest you also try smoked mackerel with coarse pepper.

Belgium? I’m not going to live anywhere where the national dish is French fries with mayonnaise. Provencal aioli I could see, maybe, but just plain mayonnaise? Gaack.

One of my other quests in life is to be able to go to the island of Bornholm on a clear, crisp winter day and have a “Bornholmer” (the alder-smoked herring made only there) right out of the smokehouse, with a chaser of aquavit. According to the cognoscenti, it is the best smoked herring to be had anywhere.

One day, one day…..

I love the combination of oranges and dark chocolate, so I’d be willing to try that. (I made a marmelade of oranges, lemons and white grapes that could go well with that.)

I’d never heard about Demel’s Sachertorte, so I’ve just googled it up. I can email them for you, if you like, to find out about the ingredients. US customs might be a bit of a problem though.

There’s another way to do it?

Do you know anything about Demel’s Sacher Torte? I’m dying to order one, but I don’t know if they use any weird stuff like gelatin or things like that or what goes on in the kitchen. Is there any way to find out?

I bought a new waffle maker yesterday (the waffles feature the logo of my favourite football club; pictures are yet to come), and I’ll be doing lots of baking and making chocolates on Sunday.

Anti-Semitism in Europe may or may not be widely orchestrated, but the motivations for the high-handed EU decision to divide a city that does not belong to them doesn’t have to be motivated by a hatred of Jews to be anti-Semitic in effect.

It’s like hate-crime laws, which I find stupid: if a guy murders another guy because he wants to steal his wallet, that’s just a felony. But if a guy murders another guy because he’s the wrong race, that’s a hate crime. It doesn’t matter to the dead guys: they’re both dead. What do they care about the reason they were killed?

So with the EU: they may think they are fostering peace and justice by making a proposal to sanctify the Arabs’ ethnic cleansing of the Jewish quarter and their forced division of Jerusalem and illegal occupation of the eastern part of of the city, but it is, for all intents and purposes an anti-Israel and anti-Semitic act, since it attempts to re-institute and render legal one the most unjust, illegal, and anti-Semitic occupations of modern times.

I don’t care WHY they’re doing it; I care THAT they’re doing it.

On a more pleasant subject, I made a Sacher Torte the other day.

Beyond awesome.

There is anti-Semitism in Europe, no doubt, but luckily enough it is not widely orchestrated.

Other than that, I really think that cowardice and greed masquerading as pompous and self-important righteousness (and not a little anti-Semitism) is behind this.

It absolutely reeks, no matter what anyone says about European maturity.

The key to what you say is this: “peace and coexistence with former enemies of centuries can be done if desired”

The key is desire. The Israelis have it, the Arabs don’t.

Also, the peace that Europeans have created came only after they got so sick of murdering each other by the millions that they could no longer go on from sheer exhaustion and revulsion. When they looked at what they had done, they were so sickened by it that they will do anything to prevent another war.

The price that was paid was the near-absolute destruction of Germany practically down to the last able-bodied man until the Nazi desire for conquest and murder was finally extirpated, at the cost of untold suffering and carnage. The Soviets alone lost more than 20 million people. But of course, you know all of this.

THAT is the price that Europe paid for peace. And the only thing that makes it work is the fact that Nazism is well and truly dead (we hope).

The Arabs have no suffered that kind of defeat, and their desire for murder and conquest is still alive and well. By aiding and abetting it, Europe is making war more likely, not less.

Relations with some individual European countries are still good, like Israel’s relations with Germany. However, the EU, as a bloc, is overstepping its bounds.

Do you really believe that Israel is acting like a petulant child? (Abbas is, though, that’s for sure.) You may not, perhaps, but anyone who does has no understanding of what is really going on. This is absolutely a matter of life and death for Israel. That people think it is not just shows how little they understand what is going on. Obama is one of the worst offenders.

you jews hav always messed up, always, from supporting european colonialism in africa to the iraq war, you jews never stood in the right side

its the same this time around

your machismo bullshit will lead to nothing

Also, I am CTC.

If people / governments act like petty kids, it’s small wonder that at some point somebody will tell them to shut it and get their act together. Obama’s Middle East policy has already pointed in that direction.

Differently put, how can both Israel and the PNA expect foreign countries to take them serious and support them (as they’re both well-aware they’re part of the network of international dependencies) if people abroad don’t see any real willingness to progress?

And that has got nothing to do how I feel about this case but everything to do with how Israel and the PNA are perceived by those that do not have a positive bias towards either. The world is running out of patience, it seems, and neither Israel nor the PNA should take that lightly.

Still, I’m amazed by how ill-informed and biased people on here are when it comes to Europe and European-Israeli relations, particularly considering that Israel has been treated as a more likely candidate to join the European Union than Turkey (Has anybody on here ever even cared to read about that?), that Germany’s Israel’s second-most important partner in foreign trade and academic exchange, and that the Federal German government has repeatedly declared that the status and safety of Israel are non-negotiable. That was in the press again only a couple of days ago wen the new German minister of foreign affairs visited Israel. Has anybody on here cared to read about that visit? Not only just now that I’ve mentioned it but when the visit took place?

Seriously, who or what gives them that right? The arrogance, self-righteousness, condescension and hypocrisy are so mind-boggling as to defy description.

Poland does not occupy a part of historic Germany as the border between Germany and Poland was agreed upon by the legislative. There is no “occupation”.

The Basques live in Spain and France and accepted the borders for a long time (the majority still does). The terrorist, separatist ETA was founded only 50 years ago in opposition to the Franco dictatorship.

And Not one single European nation ever came to Israel’s defense or even suggested that those attacks were against ‘international law’ or the decisions made by the UN with their approval. is either grossly ill-informed or a blatant lie.

Europe has come a long way and has used the years since the Iron Curtain fell to grow into an amazing international community that has learnt to resolve its domestic conflicts “like adults”. The realisation that war always only knows victims has done Europe good.

That would be the Movie Poster.

There are millions of disenfranchised non-citizen Turks living in Germany that have no citizenship.

They are 21st surfs.

They are born there, live there, have children there, and still cannot vote.

The Spanish have occupied Basque land for generations.

I guess Spain doesn’t have to worry because they won’t be called on the carpet for an obvious land grab.

Italy, France, have ongoing resolution issues regarding colonies, and occupation of lands that were never part of their country.

Poland occupies a sizable chunk of historic Germany.

Oh there are so many fun facts like these, I get kind of giddy.

I will also say, however, that unlike her, and almost everybody else who advocates for the poor Palestinians who keep rejecting peace offers, I don’t understand why a future Palestine should be emptied of all its Jews. If Jews would like to live there, why can’t they? Israel has 1.4 million Arab citizens living inside it. If a Jew wants to live in Hebron, he should be permitted to do so in the new Palestine.