Well, Musharaf is set to address the American Jewish Congress (AJC), and that's significant. And the Pakistani and Israeli Foreign Ministers have met in Turkey, and that's also highly significant. This is clearly payback for the Gaza pullout, which is good, but of course it's still contingent on some sort of normal "Palestinian" state coming into existence, and that puts the ball back into the Palestinian court, and the cynic in me tells me that nothing scares the Palestinians more than that, and they'll do anything possible to screw it up. No longer being the Arab world's pet people, losing the patience of their patrons who begin to move on, setting grievances aside...setting grievances aside? What will they have left?

Not in our lifetimes.