[Sca-cooks] Eastern European History Cooking with Bonzer. . .

Stefan li Rous stefan at texas.net
Mon Feb 11 21:55:04 PST 2002


Anahita said:
> Adamantius wrote:
> >I think "little Wallachia" isn't so much to distinguish it from some
> >other Wallachia, as with, say, White Russia, just a reference to its
> >being little, probably in comparison to various enemies. Not unlike
> >the occasional references we see to Little Israel; they're still just
> >talking about Israel.
>
> And certainly not to be confused with Little Egypt ;-}

So, what is this "little Israel"? Are they referring to the original,
smaller nation of Israel formed in 1948, compared to the today's
larger Israel which, at least to the Israelis, seems to include all
the land they've stolen since then?

Mark S. Harris



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