Marmari points out that both Beirut and Tel Aviv have branches of McDonald's, so there goes Thomas Friedman's famous Golden Arches Theory of Conflict Prevention. My understanding was the NATO-Serbia war was the first failure of that theory. Anyway, Lisa, I'd gently suggest that the "TEL AVIVIAN IN BEIRUT" headline and some of the other elements of that piece are at odds with the "just a journalist going wherever and how could anyone object?" attitude you want the Lebanese to take towards you. I understand that your editors want to crow a bit, but that crowing has to create antagonism elsewhere.