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The Camp-Facebook summit
Op-ed: Holding peace summit in Facebook perfect for Bibi’s doctrine of virtual negotiations
The public relations problem afflicting the productive, earth-shattering round of peace talks to be launched in Washington next week may perhaps have to do with their character and location.
Washington is a nice place, yet it’s just so 20th Century. The time has come to hold the talks in a slightly more fashionable location, such as Facebook.
The thought that we’ll be able to resolve all the problems if only our leaders meet face to face is more outdated than Boy George’s attire. These meetings just make everything more complicated.
After all, the Internet generation is premised on the effort to come up with elegant ways to circumvent the unease and inconvenience inherent in human encounters. The real meaning of the term “social network” is in fact “protection network” that will safeguard us from social encounters.
‘Bibi is making peace’
And so, nothing is more suitable than Facebook to go along with Prime Minister Netanyahu’s doctrine of virtual negotiations. Instead of making friends around the negotiating table, there are Facebook friends out there already, and we can forego actual peace as long as we have a “peace process” going.
Moreover, the Camp-Facebook summit does not require the sides to actually meet and talk. Sending a smiley is sufficient. We can even update our status to “Bibi is making peace,” even if at the moment he is in fact just taking a shower.
And if this whole business of peacemaking does not work out at the end (just between us, it’s a rather tiring, sweaty business), we can make do we giving it a “like.”
Overall, this would guarantee that this process would fully adopt Facebook’s main purpose: Wasting time on nonsense.
