After Netanyahu flaps his right-wing agenda in the Knesset and receives the blessing of President Shimon Peres to become the official Prime Minister, he does the unthinkable and schedules a diplomatic talk to resolve the whole tired Palestinian affair with an all-star cast of Israeli political raptors: Livni, himself, Lieberman, Barak. He even goes so far as to invite some Palestinian officials. Nothing too radical, mind you. We'll just ask that Abbas fellow if he wants to attend.
He doesn't.
And as the meeting starts, off the record, someone begins on an off-kilter note, perhaps hoping to break the ice.
"Did anyone read comic books growing up? I was a big fan of the X-Men, and I talking about one of those typical all-star crossover fantasy battles. Namely, what would happen if the Juggernaut ran into the Blob? An unstoppable force colliding with an immovable force?"
"Strangely enough, I asked an expert once the very same question. And don't ask me what his expertise exactly was. His answer was quite simple, if unintuitive: both parties would simply do what they weren't supposed to. The Blob would be sent reeling, and the Juggernaut would stop dead in his tracks."
And a third voice chimes in impatiently.
"Oh, don't be preposterous. They solved that very question in the comics, when the Hulk, who admittedly is stronger than the Juggernaut, was able to pick up the Blob. And I suppose Blob's immovable nature is only defined by his relation to the ground beneath him, because when he was hoisted up he ripped up a great deal of ground with him."
"How interesting. So in a sense, the Blob never moved, as he was still stationary to ground he was upon. How clever a solution to move an immovable object by displacing the entire system it is immovable within."
"Yes, yes. But let's move on to politics."
He doesn't.
And as the meeting starts, off the record, someone begins on an off-kilter note, perhaps hoping to break the ice.
"Did anyone read comic books growing up? I was a big fan of the X-Men, and I talking about one of those typical all-star crossover fantasy battles. Namely, what would happen if the Juggernaut ran into the Blob? An unstoppable force colliding with an immovable force?"
"Strangely enough, I asked an expert once the very same question. And don't ask me what his expertise exactly was. His answer was quite simple, if unintuitive: both parties would simply do what they weren't supposed to. The Blob would be sent reeling, and the Juggernaut would stop dead in his tracks."
And a third voice chimes in impatiently.
"Oh, don't be preposterous. They solved that very question in the comics, when the Hulk, who admittedly is stronger than the Juggernaut, was able to pick up the Blob. And I suppose Blob's immovable nature is only defined by his relation to the ground beneath him, because when he was hoisted up he ripped up a great deal of ground with him."
"How interesting. So in a sense, the Blob never moved, as he was still stationary to ground he was upon. How clever a solution to move an immovable object by displacing the entire system it is immovable within."
"Yes, yes. But let's move on to politics."
