Ah ha

We spent a couple of lovely days with friends in Tel Aviv - relaxing and hugely informative! Three years as a diplomat has apparently taught him a thing or two about the country and the political situation. I was interested to hear how the settlements may end up backfiring. Time was apparently when they were set up so they could be given back in land swaps (although some also no doubt thought that it was important to populate all the land). Now there's little hope of dismantling some settlements which are too established, so they may end up giving up bits of the land inside the '47 borders in order to keep the settlements.

I also learned that the plan would be to create a Palestinian State with the West Bank and Gaza. The slight problem being that they aren't next to each other. I'm told the solution could be to connect them with an enclosed road - novel.