Subject: Re: Israel/Palestine
I would be interested in your perspective on Oliver's commentary. His pieces are well-researched, and he often credits actual journalists as the sources for his pieces. He didn't exactly say "thiiiis close", but he did say they were well on the way to something both could agree to (paraphrasing from memory).

The extremist Palestinians want Israel gone, and the extremist Israelis want to take over the whole shebang including Gaza and the West Bank. But apparently both of those groups are significant minorities exercising power beyond their numbers (sort of like the NRA).

You even said a month or so ago that one of the reasons Hamas did this was that Israel was on the verge of reaching accords with other middle east nations, and Hamas wanted to derail that.