Originally Posted by Plechazunga

The truth is the situation is probably more fucked than it's ever been. The Israeli political situation is stagnant and in no state to get things moving, the religious nutters have way more political weight than they should in relation to their numbers, and the settlements keep on growing... the Palestinians are violently split, and everyone knows Hamas is fundamentally opposed to a 2-state solution anyway. And meanwhile the Iranians are on the rise, and flexing their muscles all over the place from Iraq to Lebanon, which is probably the real reason the Syrians are pushing this. Or something like that.