Ok, the good news is, that we are finally figuring out a way to remove ourselves from the negotiations only, and try new paths to redemption and reconciliation.

The bad news is, that there is a long way to go from here, to peace in the Middle East.

First of all, the regional competition between Israel and Iran has escalated massively the last year, and deescalating that conflict will take time.

There is really no reason to go to an all out war with Iran, but there is off cause cause for worry.

Yet to understand Iran, we have to see the for what they are; a conservative, islamic renaissance movement.

They are heirs to a tradition that is a thousand years old.

It is not a bogey man, it is an old and very advanced culture, that is angry with us, because we have not taken them seriously.

What they want, at least in the beginning, was self-determination and self respect. Today, the system has become quite unpopular, because of the hard reaction to women especially and it is very, very controlling.

Yet they have ideas that we should respect as well. The world is not black and white.

So Hezbollah is the most pure reflection of this point of view, and they have been destroying most of the north. So there is that.

Yet, if we start focusing on what it really is that we are fighting against, that of Iran and its proxies, and seek some kind of closure with that enemy, hopefully the threat of Hamas diminishes.

Yet we should be aware, that our political capital has run out, that there is soon a new president in the White house, and we have to be careful to have allies.

So my advice is, not all conflicts are meant to be solved with guns, some conflicts can be solved with diplomacy, and if we use our energy on Iran instead of Hamas, the chance that we will get along lines of true progress are much, much higher.

G-d bless the will to find peace in the Middle East.