Dick Cheney is gonna plotz

After all the reports that the US has told Israel not to negotiate with Syria,

An Israeli newspaper said on Friday that Israel has told Syria it is prepared to withdraw from the Golan Heights in return for lasting peace, adding to growing signals that Israel is looking to resume negotiations....

Israel's price for handing back the Golan would likely be very high. Yedioth said the Israeli message to Damascus was that Syria must abandon its alliances with Iran, Hezbollah guerrillas in Lebanon and Palestinian militants.

That sounds like a pretty unverifiable deal, and giving up Golan is not popular in Israel, so this may not come off, but, after all the US warnings, to have something this big on the table from the Israelis would mark a serious departure from the US's "no talks without concessions" diplomatic strategy.

(Oh, and it was brokered through the Germans and Turks.)