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Luxury Berlin hotel denies leaving Israel off phone book
TheLocal.de ^ | 11 Aug 2016 18:03 GMT+02:00

Posted on 08/11/2016 9:17:24 AM PDT by Olog-hai

French filmaker Claude Lanzmann has claimed that a luxury hotel in Berlin deliberately leaves the Israeli dialing code out of its directory for the sake of its Arab clients.

On Tuesday, filmmaker Lanzmann was staying in a hotel belonging to the Kempinski group near Kurfürstendamm in the west of the capital.

The Jewish director who shot the 1985 documentary “Shoah” leafed through the services offered by the hotel. Whilst looking up the international dialing codes, he noticed that the Israeli code did not appear in the hotel list. …

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TOPICS: Germany; Israel
KEYWORDS: berlin; countrycode; phonebook; rop

1 posted on 08/11/2016 9:17:25 AM PDT by Olog-hai
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To: Olog-hai

Oh, those wacky Germans.


2 posted on 08/11/2016 9:18:39 AM PDT by dfwgator
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To: Olog-hai
In the story, gal from hotel PR explains that Israel wasn't taken off the list--it was never on the list to begin with.

(That's better?)

3 posted on 08/11/2016 9:51:53 AM PDT by SamuraiScot
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To: Olog-hai

The Kempinski? Nice hotel. Have stayed there. And I believe Kempinski is a Jewish name. Strange they would leave Israel out...l


4 posted on 08/11/2016 9:57:54 AM PDT by Rummyfan (Let us now try liberty.)
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To: Rummyfan

Cow-towing to muslims....


5 posted on 08/11/2016 11:23:47 AM PDT by onedoug
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To: Olog-hai

Phone book? Lol. What the heck is that? Of all things to cry about. Next they will be upset they don’t provide a typewriter.


6 posted on 08/11/2016 11:46:59 AM PDT by napscoordinator (Trump/Hunter, jr for President/Vice President 2016)
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To: Olog-hai

Deny all you want. We are pretty smart.


7 posted on 08/11/2016 12:20:32 PM PDT by TBP (0bama lies, Granny dies.)
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