The cost of a peace treaty nowadays is clear, as is the current quid pro quo. A treaty with Syria will not improve the country's strategic situation. Generally, Israel has little to gain from economic or cultural interactions with the Arab world.
Our neighbors have not opened up to globalization and have remained poor, an unappetizing market for our products. Moreover, their societies are despotic, corrupt, fanatic and in deep cultural crises. The Arab world has nothing to offer and Israel should keep its distance.
Not a great boding for the future, but then again how can one make peace with Syria when their whole predilection of policy towards the outside world in one of a rejectionist and radical state. The only way that the ruling clique can continue their rule is to be rejectionist and continue the confrontational policy in their internal politics. Else they have to open up and devolve power to more liberal groups.
It is not a case of Israel making peace it is a case that the Syrian regime cannot afford to make peace and hold onto power, after years and years of propaganda from the Assad government.
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