The stakes for a peaceful regional order are too high for Israel and the United States to persist in refusing to put Syrian President Bashar al-Assad’s current peace offensive to the test. The bones of contention that wrecked previous attempts to reach an Israeli-Syrian peace have realistic solutions, as was shown by the back-channel peace talks recently held between an Israeli ex-official and a Syrian with close connections to the regime.
国务卿莱斯坚决抵制让叙利亚参与进来并非明智的政策。一个和平的地区秩序对于美国和以色列而言利益攸关，它们无法坚持拒绝考验叙利亚总统阿萨德当前的和平攻势。过去试图达成以色列和叙利亚之间和平的努力遭受挫折，其争议是有现实的解决办法的。最近，前任以色列官员和与一个与叙利亚政权有密切联系的叙利亚人通过秘密管道举行了和平谈判正说明了这一点。