Marco Berrebi (Face2Face) emailed me an insight I thought was worth sharing:

PS : the more I think about the Middle-East conflict, the more I think about the theory of Gauss (mathematician of the early 19^th century) saying that equations with several variables evolving within a wide range of possible values cannot be solved until we limit the range of the possible values. This would mean that until it becomes widely accepted that peace will happen within a space limited by Clinton Parameters / Arab Peace Plan / Geneva Initiative / Ayalon-Nusseibeh negotiation, nothing can happen. Just mathematics …

It is true that complexity makes it harder to narrow down choices. That only gets worse when you add the Mideast bargaining mentality that most Israeli and Palestinian politicians have, and the pandering to each side that has made people assume they can get peace without making compromises. 

Tags: Palestine, Israel, Science and Technology, Mideast Negotiations //