It's been a while since my last update - that's because I've been hard at work (and play) with a forthcoming book draft to be rasped, filed, sanded and polished for a colleague at the IIR, and at the same time I've been going to milongas, tango classes, aikido (occasionally), football, and runs with the HHH. The rest of the time I've been too tired to bother updating.
Some of you Americans out there might like to read this. I'd be worried...
What else is happening? Well, not too much, thankfully. Mostly electioneering, or pre-electioneering. The Iraqi elections seem to have gone well; people are making noises about reductions in troop deployments - fair enough, if the violence dies down and the Iraqi forces get to grips with the task. Israeli politics has shifted a bit to the centre with the new Kadima party - good, if it stops the extreme right hampering peaceful developments over there, yet the party's already in trouble. And Palestinian politics have taken an interesting turn, with the departure of some high-ranking Fatah politicians to form a new electoral list with anti-corruption and (seemingly) pragmatic policies. So, all in all, this is pretty positive. The Iraqi elections, with a big turnout and absence of large-scale disruption, bode well, Palestinians now have the option of voting against both Fatah's cronyism and Hamas' extremism, and the Israeli landscape has shifted: hopefully the result will reduce the instability and conflict inherent in the governmental coalitions in recent years.
Right - time for dinner, then I have a tango class to go to.
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