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I would like to know some of your thoughts on how to do this. And I agree we have the tools and just need the will. The emphasis should be on what is possible rather than what is impossible.

That spells change.

Maybe the people are going to have to lead their governments instead of vice versa to get any lasting results. I think women should take leading roles in the Middle East peace process or anywhere for that matter, in breaking down the barriers and fostering the people to people contact. This could be done through informal means: university forums, etc. – outside of the traditional government pathway. It’s like Hillary said a day or two ago – she wants the Israelis and Palestinians to focus on the future through the eyes of the children.

…and don’t worry. I used to ride horses with a passion. I’ve also heard horror stories about camels. Horse it will be.

I second that on Lynnette. I’m thrilled she started commenting.

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Taylor – thanks for all the posts you’ve put up. You are truly “fair and balanced” in your writing. And for all you posters, thanks for allowing me to wax philosophical every once in a while. I have a lot of thoughts running around in my head and I don’t know if I’ll ever have an opportunity to take the hundreds of notebooks in my basement and condense them into coherent writing. They are a hodgepodge of thoughts of almost 30 years.

I hope you get to Egypt Taylor, though I would suggest that if you go into the desert to see the pyramids that you go on horseback and not on camelback. I go on the horse; my husband chose the camel against my better judgement (it must be a man-thing) and he was a site to behold. I laughed so hard I almost split my sides and came damn near to falling off the horse. I don’t know how he did it without getting sick to his stomach but he was a real trooper though I don’t think he’ll ever do it again.

lynnette – I always love when you post. You have such wonderful warm thinking. I’ve met thousands of people over the past 30 years, primarily women. The one thing that has always struck me in talking to these women is that they want the same things that all women want for their children no matter where we live – food, homes, education,jobs, a future with peace. They don’t want our way of life just the dignity and rights of any human being. Why can’t we give it to them?

Tina Brown was on Morning Joe this morning commenting on the brillance of Hillary and the wide ambitions of President Obama.She said tht it appears that Hillary has no ego in her decisions(envoys etc.) just smart pragmatic decisions.

Hey Lynnette, thanks.

Credit to you, icemama, for chiming in and participating! It all begins by reading about these issues and being willing to engage. You scored on both today.

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djjl – I love Egypt and have made about 19 trips since the mid ’80s. The Egyptians are a wonderful warm hearted people and will give you the shirts off their backs. I had a similar experience some years ago when I lost my passport and it was returned to me intact and when I offered to give the gentleman a reward he declined saying he would hope that the same would be done in America if he lost his passport. Amazing since many of the tour guides and “businessmen” live on the concept of “baksheesh.” Egypt lives off of tourism and this latest incident in the Bazaar has them quite concerned that tourism will drop even further since they have seen a drop in tourism with the economic crisis.

They were treated warmly (except for some men who behaved as we often hear that Italian men do). My son in law, Patrick, left his $1,000 plus camera on a train. The man working the train knew the taxi driver that picked them up. Long story short, three different Egyptian workers got that camera back to their hotel. It was there when they got back . Amazing.

Enjoyed your story Jane.

Be back late afternoon. Have to go to pick up meds and go to commissary.

On a side note – My husband had to give a paper at the British chemical society so we decided to combine our trips. We first went to London for two days and did the site-seeing thing (Westminster, Buckingham Palace, etc.). Hubby had never been to London so he was very impressed with the history. Then we went to Egypt where we were invited to stay with a former colleague and his wife who live in Nasser City, suburb of Cairo. The only problem with Nasser City is dealing with the sand. Fatima never puts her vaccuum cleaner away and I swear vaccuums every 15 minutes just trying to keep ahead of the sand build up (we had to shake out our bedding before going to bed). We were at the pyramids the day that the explosion rocked the Khan al-Khalili Bazaar. We had visited the bazaar the day before because my husband wanted to see the Al-Husseini and Al-Azhar mosques. I wanted to buy jewelry and our driver’s son owns a jewelry store so I did a little shopping, mostly for the granddaughters. Strangely enough I never felt afraid. Maybe I’m at that point in my life where I just don’t care to be afraid. Our final stop was Rome where we spent 15 hours – I had to re-visit the Sistin Chapel and see the restored ceiling (absolutely beautiful!) and the Pieta, just once more in my life.