“6/03/2009, 5:23pm EST”
This language thing is really hard sometimes
Via New York Times:
Senior Israeli officials expressed irritation on Wednesday that President Obama had declined to acknowledge what they called clear understandings with the Bush administration that allowed Israel to build West Bank settlement housing within certain guidelines while still publicly claiming to honor a settlement “freeze.”
Maybe that’s because Obama thinks of a “freeze” as… well… a freeze. The “irritation” these Israeli officials profess to feel is actually an acute condition called “embarassment.”
Or at least it should be. The more I read about the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, the more I see that both sides are contemptible. Neither acts with honor or perspective.
Never leave home without it.
