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Thursday, September 2, 2010

The Talks

They say young folk don't carry watches anymore, since cellphones tell the time. Conclusion: these guys are not young folk. (Apparently they were checking the time before last night's dinner, to make sure they could break the fast.)

Peace talks are always a triumph of hope over experience, and to expect too much would be unrealistic; I wish them well, of oourse, but unless Netanyahu is prepared to jettison part of his present coalition, even such minimal moves as exending th settlement freeze seem hard to achieve.

2 comments:

Tim said...

Can I draw an inference as to the Chief Executive's religion since he's the only one in the picture not looking at his watch?

Michael Collins Dunn said...

Tim:

Sure, but does that mean Netanyahu's keeping Ramadan?