Last night marked the beginning of New Israeli-Palestinian peace talks at the State Department.
CBS News reported:
At sundown Monday, Palestinian and Israeli negotiators will meet over an Iftar dinner hosted by Secretary of State John Kerry at the State Department. The meal, which marks the breaking of the day-long fast observed by Muslims during the holy month of Ramadan, is a symbolic start to the first round of face-to-face negotiations between the two parties for the first time in three years.
Earlier in the day, some State Department reporters seemed a bit culturally challenged by it all. Here is an exchange at yesterday's
press briefing by State Department spokesperson Jen Psaki:
QUESTION: And the dinner tonight is at State or at his house or --
MS. PSAKI: It’s at the State Department.
QUESTION: Okay. Thank you.
QUESTION: It’s an Iftar dinner or a regular dinner?
MS. PSAKI: It is an Iftar dinner.
QUESTION: Iftar.
QUESTION: Isn’t an Iftar dinner – isn’t that a regular dinner?
MS. PSAKI: There will be food served at an Iftar dinner, yes.
