trauma meal

Last night some old friends came round for dinner. We gave them a nut roast, prepared from the hazel nuts garnered from our own tree last autumn. But in the event, though everyone else seemed to relish it, with my teeth in their current diminished state it proved an absolute nightmare. I kept hurting my gums, trying to chaw where I had no business to be chawing. Finally I resorted to using the middle front 6 incisors only, a ludicrous, but necessary step. Terrible. From now on, until I have had all my implants inserted and they have finally settled down, which may be up to 6 months from now, I'm going to stick to the good old comfortable modge I am used to.

COMMENT

Al Jazeera has released their "Palestinian Papers", leaked documents of hitherto secret negotiations held between the Israelis and a Palestinian delegation. Mark you, the word "negotiation" itself is something of a misnomer. It emerged that the Palestinians were prepared to make huge concessions, concessions which would doubtless have appalled many of their own countrymen had they known what was going on. They were even willing to contemplate the handing over of East Jerusalem to the hated Jew, a "sacred zone", close to the very hearts of all Arabs, in exchange for a promise from the Israelis to stop the settlement building on the West Bank. The Israeli's response: they just say no. No, no, no.
Talk about intransigence. If you can't make concessions, you can't make history move forward as it should. But I believe one day they will, though probably only when they have to. But don't rule it out. It happened in South Africa, even though it didn't seem possible at the time. And if it happened there, it can happen here.