Middle East Quick Hits

The French complain about Israel's housing projects. Somehow, I suspect the subject of the banlieues didn't come up.

Obama says he'd support Israel's talks with Syria. Gee, why is that not surprising. Does he realize Israel has preconditions for any talks?

Hamas fumes at Egypt as talks fail again. Well, I guess that means whine and seethe are off the menu for a few days.

Palestinian rockets damage Israeli greenhouses inside Israel. Missing from the evening news here in the US. As usual.

UPDATE:
Syria-Israel talks apparently irk Ahmadinejad and the Iranians. You don't say. Then again, I did say just that.

Israel puts in a request to purchase the US made F-35 Joint Strike Fighter. Because if anyone knows that negotiations and/or pieces of paper declaring peace in our time don't always lead to peace, it's the Israelis.