April has the connotation of pulling people’s legs. On April 1, for example, Israel’s naval commander Major General Ram Rotenberg’s ordering of three vessels to prepare an overnight sail to Naples to commence a 10 day exercise. Reports on Israel Radio said officers and crew were not amused when they found out on Sunday morning, after working through the night, that the whole thing was their commander’s idea of a wholesome joke. April Fools! One hopes it was not meant as such a cruel jest when it was suggested that Lebanon could get a new techno park for entrepreneurs — a locale where startup companies and small enterprises with a high-tech edge could avail themselves of broadband connectivity and hard and soft business infrastructure. Yet when two highly positioned voices in the Lebanese socioeconomic fabric said, in a curious coincidence of timings just ahead of April 1, that they could
