Six weeks to the day since direct talks between Israel and the Palestinian Authority were relaunched and we've seen the settlement moratorium expire, the Palestinians threaten to walk out of talks and the Israeli cabinet approve one of its most racist laws of all time.
But the main players did fit in a nice post-summer mini-break, aka 'peace summit round 2', in the Egyptian resort of Sharm el-Sheikh.
And to think we were all skeptical at the start of this US-led peace endeavour.
But this week has seen an interesting twist to the story.
On Sunday, Binyamin Netanyahu, the Israeli PM, revealed he had offered to [consider] asking his cabinet to extend the [partial] settlement freeze in the West Bank (not including Jerusalem).
In return, he asked for the Palestinians to recognise Israel as the Jewish homeland (and not the homeland of millions of Palestinians that fled following Israel's creation and hope to one day return).
Amaz
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