You Get Excited About these Things in the Middle East

September 7, 2006 - 10:40 PM by

Sarah enthuses:

As I write this, there are two workers in my apartment.

You know what they are doing?

Can you guess what I am getting?

MY NEW AIR CONDITIONER!!!!

Ah, finally . . .

It’s a little late for this summer, being September. But NEXT summer, I will be made in the shade.

And in her newly chilled environment, she contemplated the fact that Foreign Minister Tsippi Livni has been named the 40th most powerful woman in the world. (Another Israeli, Galia Maor, is #88.)

I have somewhat mixed feelings about Livni. While the recent war was going on against Hezballah, she entered everyone’s radar, and it was widely noted that of all Israel’s leaders, she seemed to be the only one who wasn’t making an utter ass of herself. She handled herself with intelligent, poise, and a sense of stability and trustworthiness.

But then Israel agreed to that cackamaimy cease-fire / premature admittance of defeat, and as the Foreign Minister, she must have had something to do with that. And the simple fact that she’s still in bed with Olmert is tarnishing her image.

Still, I’m not quite crossing her off my list of people I could support for Prime Minister when the time comes. I’m still hanging in there, hoping that she proves to have bigger balls than her male colleagues.

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One Comment on You Get Excited About these Things in the Middle East

  1. David on Sat, Sep 9th 2006 1:05 AM

    2. What exactly is “the most powerful ………..” nonsense?

    Governments are supposed to be by the people for the people in democratic nations – at least that is the Jeffersonian principle upon which the freest nation in the world [and hopefully others] reside.

    In fact, I challenge ANY nation to best Israelis when it comes to be “uppity” towards politicians. I like that.

    It is not for nothing that Golda Meir once told another world leader that she was the PM of “3 million Prime Ministers”!

    This Israeli [me] seriously baulks at these lists of most powerful. I challenge any of them to be able to get me to do anything to the point of being bloody minded!

    “Power” be damned.

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