Jimmy Carter visits Hamas in Syria; Israel doesn't like it. The Syrian government claims an Israeli offer to return the Golan Heights; Israel denies it. Israel claims a secret U.S. deal allowing settlement expansion; the U.S. denies it. Congress holds hearings on a possible North Korea-Syria nuclear site which Israel bombed last year; Syria denies it. The U.S. arrests a man accused of spying for Israel in the early eighties.
I don't know how it all fits. I'm just trying to keep track.