January 16, 2009

Summiting

well there was an arab summit in doha today ... some people are saying it doesn't deserve to be called a summit ... apparently it doesn't meet the arab summit criteria ... there was also a gcc summit in riyadh yesterday ... and there's another summit on monday in kuwait ... monday's summit will be attended by ksa, egypt, and jordan ... all three of which did not attend today's summit ... morocco and tunisia also didn't attend ... who else ... oh yeah fricking abbas didn't attend ... can you believe this guy ... anyway his term expired so whatever ... but everyone who attended today's summit will also attend monday's summit ... but today's summit was a gaza summit ... that is it was held solely to discuss gaza ... whereas monday's summit is an economic summit but gaza will be discussed ... are you still with me or did i lose you ... anyway ... hamas and iljihad ilislami and iljabha il sha3biye were all represented at the summit today ... so correct me if i'm wrong but i think that's the first time that's ever happened ... but i don't think they will attend kuwait's summit ... i don't think they're even invited ... but everyone else who was there today will be there ... wait ahmadenajad also attended today's summit ... i doubt he's invited to the kuwaiti summit as well so he probably won't be there either ... and also a representative on behalf of venezuela also attended ... no that's not a typo ... fricking venezuela attended ... so yeah he probably won't be there either ... lebanon also attended but you get the feeling that it didn't want to be there ... every time they would cut to the lebanese president he would look really uncomfortable ... which is understandable ... i guess lebanon doesn't want to take sides and wishes to remain neutral ... anyway ... was it - the gaza summit - a success ... i don't know ... they did manage to set the bar pretty high for the kuwait summit though ... but i tend to be dismissive of arab summits ... i posted a poem a couple of days ago disparaging them ... arab summits remind me of that festival held in duraid lahham's film il7dood ... a lot of talk and clapping with zero results ... much ado about nothing as shakespeare once said ... it's kind of ironic that we call them summits ... we should call them rock-bottoms ... but let's wait and see ... the war is not over and that's what matters to me ... when it ends and how it ends then we can talk about failures and successes ... and as i write these words condi is speaking to the press announcing a "memorandum of understanding" reached with livni ...
5itaman ... kul qimmeh wintu b5air ...

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