“Pakistan and other Muslim nations including Saudi Arabia and I assume Qatar – countries that played a role as mediators in the Gaza peace plan, have decided to join the Board of Peace, and they jointly welcomed the invite and…”
“Two questions.”
“Have you heard the proverb, ask me no questions and I will tell you no lies.”
“Yes, but this is between friends.”
“George Bernard Shaw, the famous playwright, said no question is so difficult to answer as that to which the answer is obvious.”
“Well Confucius the revered Chinese philosopher said the man who asks a question is a fool
for a minute, the man who does not ask is a fool for life.”
“Mark Twain said something similar – he who asks is a fool for five minutes, but he who does not ask remains a fool forever.”
“Well, Confucius died in 479 BC while Twain…”
“Right as Rudyard Kipling wrote, East is east and West is west and ne’er the twain shall meet.”
“As you and I both know, the international world order…”
“A construct of the West.”
“OK is undergoing a change and…”
“Let me ask the Danes one question: why did they insist Iran show restraint when it was Israel that bombed them, but now…”
“You support Trump’s annexation of Greenland?”
“As per the international world order that was used selectively in the past and which is now as you say over…”
“Dear, dear, me.”
“Indeed, dear, dear you.”
“So what’s up?”
“Have the Muslim nations clarified whether the Board of Peace with a one billion dollar entrance fee is Gaza specific or…”
“No, but one billion dollars is petty cash for the Muslim nations and Pakistan has asked for an additional one billion dollars under the ongoing IMF programme and I hear the Board of Directors sold on the Board of Peace…”
“Right, the ear of the Boards is here.”
“Yep.”
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