Seeing the light

"Contrary to other disputes - where the devil is usually in the details - here the devil is more in the concept."

He assessed that the maximum that Israel is politically able to give is less than the Palestinians are politically able to accept, asking, "What is the basis for believing that now we can resume the same negotiations and be more successful?"

I, too, have given up on that concept, because like Eiland I think that the painful truth is that the maximum Israel can offer - like at Taba in 2001 - is nowhere near the minimum the Palestinians can or will accept for as long as they don't abandon the "right of return" or, like Arafat, refuse to accept that any agreement is final.