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By Ron Kampeas · November 30, 2010

Phil Weiss is baffled by civility:

We just got this picture of Yariv Oppenheimer, the head of Peace Now in Israel, in green at left, hanging at a party with men who are said to be members of the Yesha Council, the settlers' group. The guy to the right of Oppenheimer is said to be Danny Dayan, who has said, "a withdrawal from the territories of Judea and Samaria in the hope that a sympathetic president will rule is a suicidal delusion."

The photo is from Facebook, from a farewell party for a reporter.

I thought of turning this into a discourse on how Israel is a small country, everyone gets along, yadda yadda, but really, civility is kind of universal.

Happens in DC all the time. I just saw Steve Clemons of the New American Foundation at a party for ex-AIPAC spokesman Josh Block, and they agree on bupkiss, and it was hardly out of place. Here's leftist video-bomber Max Blumenthal flirting -- really -- with Hannah Giles, conservative video-bomb. It's kinda cute.

Still, this, from Weiss, counts as some kind of understatement of the century:

I don't live in Israel, I find it hard to understand that society.