`Let my palm fronds go'

Quote of the Day: U.S. Rep. Gary Ackerman

"I said, `Let my palm fronds go.' ... We're trying to avoid the Egyptians from looking like the grinch that stole Sukkot."

-- U.S. Rep. Gary Ackerman, D-N.Y., commenting on Israeli complaints that prices for palm fronds imported from Egypt have skyrocketed from $2 in 2004 to $20 this year. The palm fronds are used in the Jewish harvest festival of Sukkot. Ackerman, quoted by The Washington Post, has contacted Egyptian officials about the high prices.