Sounds So Simple, Don't it?

AP:

The leader of Hamas says his Palestinian militant group is offering Israel a 10-year truce if it withdraws from all lands it seized in the 1967 war.

Khaled Mashaal says he made the offer to former President Carter in talks on Saturday.

Mashaal says Hamas would accept a Palestinian state limited to the lands Israel seized in 1967 — an implicit acceptance that Israel would exist alongside that state.

But Mashaal says the group would never outright formally recognize Israel.

This wouldn't be the first time such an offer has been made.  Sadly, it isn't so simple as Israel just redrawing a map, which of course was their strategy from the beginning: make reality on the ground with settlements.  They'll never go for that, especially when it's only a 10 year truce and not recognition.

Both sides need to do better to recognize that it is, in fact, not 1967 anymore...

ntodd