Most Awkward. Dinner. Ever.

A terse account from the White House press shop:

Last evening, the Vice President and General Jones had a working dinner with Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu and Israeli Defense Minister Barak at the Vice President’s residence at the Naval Observatory, together with their delegations. They had a productive, candid discussion

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Gibbs on Abbas Quitting: Meh

The moderate leader of the Palestinian Authority announces that he’s not going to stand for re-election — largely because doing the Obama administration a solid has wrecked his political standing — and White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs, as a man once put it, files his nails while More…