as well," she added. El-Yafi also pointed out that haloumi cheese is in fact "Cypriot," and therefore "until Cyprus becomes another conquered Israeli territory, haloumi is considered NOT Israeli." She concluded that at the very least the buffet should be renamed "Mediterranean Mezze Station." In response to el-Yafi's Facebook protest, which as of Friday had garnered more than 4,500 "likes," Kenny reportedly said that "we are deeply troubled that we offended anybody by doing this buffet item, particularly considering that our reason for doing the international buffet each day is to celebrate cultural diversity." "We've been following the comments and the [Facebook] posts," Kenny continued, which have "prompted us to have some extensive conversations here internally... to understand how this happened and to make sure that it doesn't happen again." Categories : 23 Comments "That 'Israeli Mezze Station" is the ultimate multicultural, multireligious 'f*** you' in the face of ALL Arabs at once from North Africa to the Levant," el- Yafi wrote. ........................... Ludicrous. If a buffet had had a "Syrian Food Station", say, and also featured humous and couscous and that infamous Cypriot cheese, no one would have batted an eye. And the fact is, no one knows where many of these foods originated -- many of them are centuries old. An Israeli food journalist set out a few years ago -- rather whimsically -- to settle the question of whether falafel was an Arab or a Jewish invention. It turned out, from her research, that falafel had almost