We appreciate the efforts of others participating in the conference who sought to remove the offensive language from the final document.
And we are confident that our withdrawal was the correct measure and hope that the decision had some effect on a better but still-flawed result.
As a general principle, and at this sensitive time, we believe that dialogue is important and we encourage Egypt and Israel to maintain the closest possible contacts.
It's late, but it still kind of snuck up on us. It feels like it came up so fast. It's felt like it was here in no time.
It'll go into the kiln for final glazing on Thursday. We unpack over the weekend, in time for soup on Sunday.