Players Conventional Wisdom Y. Arafat (+) Old CW: Ringo look-alike terrorist. New CW: Ringo look-alike peacemaker. Y. Rabin (+) Yessir, Yasir. It takes a tough man to make a tender peace. B. Clinton (-) Peace? What peace? Are you guys talking? Oh, that’s cool. H. Assad (+) He’s chillin’. And if he weren’t, nobody would be rappin’. ‘Bibi’ (+/-) Likud’s Netanyahu: hunky hawk or political dead duck? Norwegians (+) Hey, Jan, Terje–that reindeer meat you fed the negotiators did the trick.
