What if Israel just doesn't show up?

The JPost is reporting this morning that Russian foreign minister Sergei Lavrov had 'nasty' meetings here last Thursday with Foreign Minister Tzipi Feigele Livni (pictured) and President Shimon Peres, and had only slightly better meetings with Prime Minister Ehud K. Olmert. Despite that, and despite a 'cool' reception to the idea by both Israel and the United States, Moscow plans to go ahead