Hillary meets with Israeli official, discusses gefilte fish dispute

By Michael Muskal

"With pressing diplomatic problems all over the Mideast, Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton greeted Israeli Defense Minister Ehud Barak on Friday for top-level talks including gefilte fish.

Gefilte fish?

Those pillows of fish poached in stock (think Yiddish quenelles) are a favorite on the Sabbath and during the holidays. But nine containers of Asian carp fillets from an Illinois fishery destined for a processing plant in Israel have become bogged down in a trade dispute.

Greeting Barak, Clinton mentioned the need for sanctions to halt Iran's nuclear ambitions, Israel's relations with the Palestinians and the touchier issue of Hamas control in Gaza.

"We have so many serious matters to discuss together, but there is one matter that I have to raise that I was asked about in a congressional hearing yesterday, and that is trying to get nine containers of gefilte fish from the processing plant in Illinois to Israel in time for Passover," she said to laughter.

"So these are intractable problems; this one we might be able to solve," Clinton said."

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By Viv Forbes

"This generation of pampered westerners is the first tribe in the history of the world that seems determined to destroy its ability to produce food. The history of the human race has always been a battle for protein in the face of the continual challenge of natural climate change. Nothing has changed for this generation, except the wildfire spread of a destructive new religion that requires the sacrifice of food producers on a global warming altar. Food creation needs solar energy, land, carbon dioxide and water. All four food resources are under threat.

Eons ago, long before ancient humans discovered the magic warmth locked in coal, millions of woolly mammoths were snap frozen in the icy wastes of Siberia. They are still being dug out of the ice today. In the last few weeks, in a mild repeat of this past climate disaster, massive snowstorms have killed millions of domestic animals in Mongolia and China. The capacity to produce and distribute food has been decimated across the top of the world from Northern Europe and Russia to North America. When orange groves in Florida are damaged and Texas gets six snowstorms in a few weeks it is obvious that nature is damaging the world food supply."

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