Saturday, November 1, 2014

Sweden's F.M. Tells Israel That Making Peace is as Easy as Assembling a Piece of IKEA Furniture

She may have a point. Ever try to assemble one of those things?:
Sweden’s foreign minister has told her Israeli counterpart Avigdor Lieberman’s that she would be happy to send him some IKEA furniture as a model for understanding how to make peace with the Palestinian Authority. 
Lieberman, responding to Sweden’s decision to recognize the Palestinian Authority as a country, said that the peace process is “more complicated than self-assembly furniture at IKEA.” 
Swedish Foreign Minister Margot Wallstrom shot back, “I will be happy to send him a flat pack of IKEA furniture and he will also see that what you need to put it together is, first of all, a partner. And you also need to cooperate and you need a good manual and I think we have most of those elements,” she said in an interview with CNN. 
“If we want to use them also for the conflict in the Middle East and for peace, you need the partners to actually sit down at the same table.”
Wow, that is easy-peasy. But what if one of the "partners" is acting in bad faith because what he really wants isn't "a" state but your state?

Does IKEA have assembly instructions that provide for that contingency?



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