I’m back from a week in Myrtle Beach, golfing with nine of my high school friends. Well… that’s not true. I hardly golfed at all. Just nine holes on Wednesday morning. That left me plenty of time to catch up on the news.

And boy, there was a lot of big and/or interesting news last week – beginning, of course, with what could very well be an end to the decades-long (centuries-long?) Arab-Israeli conflict.