Shati' tea and falafel shop "67 borders with swaps" Obama, Tom Sawyer, and Hemmingway

Swaps, what do the Palestinians have left to swap?

But the mere fact that Obama went back that far in history, shows the effect of the Egyptian revolution, which has opened the Gaza crossing, and persuaded Hamas and Fateh to form a government of unity. It has got Obama to get out of his rocking chair in the White House and go off to Europe to talk and give speeches about the Arab Spring...all this to cover for the upcoming vote in the General Assembly for an independent state in what's left of what Israel took in 1967--the west bank of the Jordan river. Even though he's already saying that the US delegation in the Security council will veto the General Assembly decision creating a west bank Palestinian state, Obama is giving speech after speech in Europe about how much he supports the Arab spring. Even Natanyahu came to preach his repertoire of historical lies to the US House of Representatives, leaving his secure rocking chair in Israel for a moment.

But I call this blog from Shate'i tea and falafel shop, Gaza, my cultural blog. This is because of Obama's curious use of the word, "swaps". It sounds like something right out of Tom Sawyer. He likes to be "real American" these days; so I guess the Tom Sawyer allusion makes him seem really American, as opposed to "Israeli" which it is.

Nice festival in Cuba, though for the Hemingway fishing competition. I bought the old man and the sea, Al-Shaikh wa Al-Bahr, in Arabic tonight at Jariir.