U.S. Embassy Makes Settlement Wine Faux Pas in Israel

As the Italian wine proverb: nella botte piccola c’è il vino buono suggests, good things come in small packages. But for the U.S. Embassy in Tel Aviv, its small gift baskets sent ahead of the Jewish New Year, or Rosh Hashanah, came with more diplomatic baggage than most. Washington’s representative in Israel sent bottles of wine…