Ice cream diplomacy

Gregg Carlstrom | June 10, 2009 9:43 AM | 0 | recommend (0) |   |      
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Syria News Wire catches the slightly bizarre news that ultraconservative Israeli foreign minister Avigdor Lieberman is willing to "get on a plane and travel to Damascus," so long as he doesn't have to talk about returning the Golan Heights. And he asks:

I'm not quite sure what the point of the trip would be then? A visit to Bekdash?

Might be worth the trip. Their pistachio-dipped ice cream is really, really good.

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