Lunch with Benjamin...

[exedir]

Breaking bread is a long held custom of welcoming and fellowship, and the president has been doing that lately, doing lunch with those that probably don't see eye-to-eye with President Obama and therefore need a more personal touch, if not the meeting of the minds at least a plate of chicken, or whatever.

Probably the president will have to get use to tuna and goat in his next few brolunchs, when he will sit down with Benjamin and then Mahmoud Abbas, as he travels, for the first time, as president to Israel and Palestine.

As to what will be said at lunch and meetings, not much, as to peace in the Middle East, that is off the table, so to speak. The president has already set the deal as to where the state of Israel ends and the Palestine begins, and that is the 1967 map. And yes, he, the president, comes as we approach holy week for both Jews and Christians.  Symbolic, yes, politically motivated, of course, the results, lunch and little else.

The meetings with Ben is more about war and strife than a peace. It starts and ends with Iran, and with Syria and Gaza a part of the conversation that places the US in a difficult position as to what to do and the consequences of not doing anything, which we can do, nothing that is.

So, after lunch and a pal visit to King Abdullah in Jordan, it is back to Washington and the Easter recess, and an assessment of what the ongoing charm offensive has accomplished both home and away, and the White House Easter Egg Roll to attend on the schedule.

[LoveLife&Laughter]

Not a good omen...

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