Monday, October 5, 2009

Chapter Fifty-Six Do We or Don't We?

One week later, the prime minister’s conference room is filled with what he calls the unholy six. Sitting around the table are Jacob Rabinowitz, Ariel Wattenberg, Yosef Bergman, Yonatan Levy and Adam Rosenberg of the Knesset; and himself.

“Don’t everyone look so damn happy,” Yaakov Brumwell opens the meeting. “If I didn’t know what was going on in this room, I would think we were sitting shiva. Cheer up. Nobody’s dead, yet anyway.”

“You know, Yaakov, this is not an easy task,” says Rosenberg.

“No shit, Adam,” Yaakov says. “If it were easy, I wouldn’t need your opinions. You left this room last week with the suggestion that all of us put our pros and cons down on paper, so that we might be able to build consensus. So who wants to start?

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