BOSTON GLOBE: INVITE SYRIAN AND HAMAS TO ISRAELI/PALI PEACE SUMMIT

Inside the Peace Tent (BackSpin)

This Boston Globe staff-ed wants to see both Syria and Hamas invited to the upcoming Mideast peace summit.

And the spoilers in the region, Hamas and Syria, will have to be brought inside the peace tent - if not by Israel and the United States, then by Abbas, the Saudis, and the other Arab states. Otherwise, it will be too easy for them to stage the sort of provocation that has subverted the chances for peace in the past.

Syrian and Hamas participation in the planned peace summit only allows other spoilers like Iran and North Korea to deep six any peace plans.