The ambiguity of הסתייגויות and its common translation “reservations” had its finest hour, I guess, when Ariel Sharon accepted the American road map for the Middle East with fourteen reservations.  That’s not an acceptance, Arab figures are complaining to this day.  Yes it is, Israel says, it just includes reservations.  The ambiguity of “reservations” even allowed Mahmoud Abbas, while complaining about Israel’s response to the road map, to Read More