What is the issue then with saying ‘two-state solution’ to describe the desired horizon?
I think this has to do with domestic political issues. Let’s get back to the other two circles you started to describe. On Syria, I think something is maybe growing in the midst here that we can’t foresee right now. The strategic advantage in Netanyahu’s eyes of the negotiation process with the Syrians is clear. I think that he understands the price that Israel will have to pay. Supposedly, it’s only a real estate dispute: give the Golan Heights back and you will get peace, not an American-Canadian type of peace, but an Egypt-Israeli peace. Cold peace is better than a hot war. But it’s more than that. Not the fact that they are hosting terrorist organizations, which in itself negative, but let’s assume that is something they can deal with in a relatively short period of time, but the nature of the issue with Syria is its alliance with Iran. Now, obviously Israel is realistic enough to know that you can’t demand as a precondition that Syria sever its ties with Iran just as an exchange t
