Pollsters predict an eventual Palestinian majority because of higher birth rates. The land between the Mediterranean and the Jordan River, made up of pre-1967 Israel and the occupied lands, is populated in roughly equal parts by Palestinians and Israeli Jews. Palestinians seek the West Bank, east Jerusalem and the Gaza Strip, areas Israel captured in the 1967 Mideast war, for their state. “It does not want to acknowledge this publicly, because acknowledging it publicly is going to have to force the international community to start talking about alternatives, all of them problematic.” “The international community, in my view, understands the reality that the two-state solution is gone,” said Marwan Muasher, a onetime Jordanian foreign minister and former ambassador to Israel. This week’s deadly Israeli raid of a West Bank militant stronghold and previous eruptions of violence also underscore the limits of international efforts to contain the conflict. to avoid making the hard political decisions needed to end the conflict. Critics argue that opting for such costly conflict management helps keep a 56-year-old Israeli military occupation in place and allows Europe and the U.S. Proponents say this approach remains the best chance for securing an eventual peace deal. The continued existence of the unit known as EUBAM is an extreme example of the West’s willingness to keep pumping hundreds of millions of dollars a year into the moribund vision of a two-state solution between Israel and the Palestinians. Yet the EU has regularly renewed funding for the unit since then, most recently late last month. The takeover forced the European Union to withdraw monitors who had been deployed at a Gaza border crossing to help the Palestinians prepare for independence. The cookie that I brought back to my hotel room for breakfast the next day was less appealing dried out at room temperature.JERUSALEM (AP) - It’s been 16 years since the borders of the Gaza Strip slammed shut after Hamas militants seized control of the territory. Not elegant, but quite satisfying, especially while still warm. They come with a dish of chocolate syrup for dipping.
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One order is three huge ones - enough for a table full of people. Waitress Becca steers me away from too-cute bacon-bourbon vanilla ice cream for dessert, suggesting instead that I try chocolate chip cookies. Oh, I will order this sandwich again, no doubt about that but on the table in my heaven, the BLT will have fewer, thicker strips with a bit of crunch. Quantity is over-the-top, but quality is something less than that.
However, a thick pile of thin-sliced strips, which are flabby-soft and not the least bit crisp, becomes - dare I say it? - fairly monotonous midway through.
The grilled sourdough on which it’s made, the mayo-dressed arugula in lieu of iceberg lettuce, the bright slices of tomato all are good. The baconcentric menu goes from bacon-decorated Bloody Marys to bacon-bourbon ice cream and features a BLT that is made with a full pound of bacon. I wonder: Does bacon’s profusion diminish its appeal? Is its allure partly due to the fact that it almost always is in short supply? A restaurant that calls itself Bakn is a good place to research this question. In recent years bacon has become more popular than red velvet cake - a virtual food fetish that gets expressed in such outlandish items as bacon milk shakes and bacon cookies.
Traditionally, it has been served in relatively small quantities so that I never get enough, adding a certain appeal of rarity to its intrinsic deliciousness. Fatty, full-flavored, and usually with a seductive smoky-sweet edge, it is pork at its finest. Like most carnivores, I really like bacon.
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