How the world can enter into ANY peace talks that would include Assad as President is beyond me.  He has bombed, gassed, tortured, barrel bombed hundreds of thousands of innocent civilians...men women and children, and displaced literally millions of people who die daily in boats trying to cross the Mediterranean...yet no REAL condemnation at the UN.....I guess the lesson for Israel would be stop even trying for peace, go bomb, gas, barrel bomb Gaza and the West Bank....destroy all the Palestinians..and then go cap in hand to the UN and make peace.  Assad is getting away with murder and mayhem....while at the same time as this goes on, as the UN Ambassador to the UN said the other day, the UN sit around ALL day and condemns Israel....not ISIL....not  Iran, not Yemen, or Libya, they focus on Israel.....what is wrong with this picture?