The cost of high context.

Al Jazeera has an article about the Libyans making a stupid maneuver on the U.N Council Security Council.

The Libyans have compared the Israelis to Nazis as it pertains to Gaza. The Western members of the Security Council walked out.

Here's the problem with making such remarks: The Israelis are not rounding up people to kill them. They are rounding people up and placing them on a reservations style settlement, but that's a far cry from systematically gassing millions of Palestinians.

Arab culture is often called high context. This means that hyperbole is often used for effect.

Unfortunately, Western Culture is not high context so these sorts of displays create communication errors.