Quote of the Day: Juan Cole
The Palestine Authority feels as though it is negotiating for what is left of a slurpy with Israelis who have long straws in it and are sucking down the very thing over which they are pretending to negotiate. [President Mahmoud] Abbas thinks that at the end of the talks, if they are conducted in this way, he'll just be handed an empty paper cup with other people's spit at the bottom of it.