Are Israel and Palestine Uniting?

I watched The Daily Show this morning before work. Jon Stewart interviewed Fareed Zakaria about the Israel-Palestine conflict. Zakaria said that, in some ways, the two nations are more united than ever before, but are more in conflict than ever before in other ways. Zakaria also said that Dubya's approach to this situation has worsened it. (There was a hilarious reference to Dubya's "eloquent press conference" regarding the conflict. I laughed-- out loud!) Most importantly, Zakaria said that Barack has "changed the game" in terms of diplomacy (i.e. Barack will actually try it as opposed to sending our brave military personnel into more illegal, immoral wars.). I don't know about y'all, but I'm feeling pretty dang optimistic and patriotic right now.