By Zvi Bar'el and Barak Ravid, Haaretz Correspondents: ANALYSIS / At Paris summit, Assad has all the answers to Mideast conflict
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Title:Jonathan S, it was you who liked Merkel, remember?
Name:christoph
City: this time in ParisState: France
And it was me who set some hope in Assad. If this time we agree that Merkel should have shut her mouth, that`s already a little agreement.

I`ve been spending a nice week-end here, participating on Saturday in a demonstration against Sarkozy`s and Merkel`s nuclear politics. An hour ago I could exchange some empty words with a driver from Olmert`s delegation. I saw the person standing next to a car in front of a hotel near place Vendôme, wearing a kippa and asked him if he was from Israel: "You`re accompanying Ehud Olmert?" He then became calm, said nothing, but looked at me through his sun glasses. I wished him a nice day before continuing my walk.
Yesterday, I went to the museum of Jewish history. I saw that there`s a very recent French book on the history of the IDF : Pierre RAZOUX: "Tsahal". Just to inform those who could be interested in it.
In the evening I`ll return to Bielefeld.