Originally Posted by salut0
but my experience of seeing how Israel gets such short shrift in some corners of the British media
You do know you are making the classic mistake of thinking criticising the Israeli government makes one an anti-semite? Some of us can quite easily distinguish between {State of Israel} as a political entity, possibly or possibly not deserving of critiscism and {Jewish people} about which it is dangerous and wrong to make generalisations. It's like taking the media's view on the actions of a government and using that to generalise on a nation's view of a certain race of people
But much more importantly
Originally Posted by salut0
Fine, but perhaps our definitions of minimum service differ. I would expect to get a comfortable, working seat as a basic requirement and not as a perk.
Yes, but I expect to get a comfortable working seat, and courteous, friendly service in Y. I presume that's why you fly AA - you have lower expectations than me of what you expect in Y*
(*Yes, I've flown both - and I thought service, food and seating on AA was appallingly bad. No, I didn't start a thread calling AA lousy or making disparaging comments about Americans as a result... life is really too short, and ultimately, most people won't care about my experience. Now I just avoid them wherever possible
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