Condi keeps shlogging away

Rice is back in Israel again shlogging away on her dead horse that "settlement growth" (read that suburbs) with 11,000 plus middle class families and support establishments (read that malls) isn't helping.

Isn't helping what?

Like the constant rocket barrage from Hamastan is helping build trust among Israelis? Like the unfettered nuclear build up in Iran is allaying feelings among those stubborn Jews that another war of holocaust proportions is coming? Like the President of Syria's insistence that there are other ways to get back the Golan than talking?

Condi's frequent chorus replete with black suits and school marm looks seems straight out the political science courses offered by Monty Python. In the famous scene, "Bring Out Your Dead", some guy wants to get the body collector to take "the old man" who insists he's not dead. "I'm not dead. In fact, I feel like dancing," he says.



Condi keeps on shlogging

The difficulty here is whether the old man symbolizes the peace process (which has been dead forever) or whether it is really Israel. Perhaps it is only fitting that the Holy Land, on the eve of the 2,000th anniversy of another betrayal, will be sold out for chump change in black gold.