And there is a somewhat moist-eyed account of a peace symposium convened by the conductor Daniel Barenboim that called for more European mediation a call in which one cannot help but hear a subconscious lament by the eminent and worldly participants that Jerusalem and Damascus were not more like Vienna and Paris in the first place.

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