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SoonShalom, chaver began to appear on billboards and bumper stickers all across Israel. Buddy had showered them on me when I was young and fatherless. Now that the American people had given us another term, I was hoping that in the next four years we would be freer to do the public’s business without the turmoil and strife of the first term. Nearly thirty years earlier, I had seen the sun set over the Grand Canyon; now I wanted to watch it rise, lighting the layers of differently colored rocks from the top down.

I had learned from the press coverage over the gays-in-the-military issue that if I gave a meaty answer to a Bush, who had to be on edge with their son’s election hanging fire. com/readerworks I reminded him that Israel had promised to take some of the refugees from Lebanon whose families had lived in wha