Passively listening to the media, it seems both sides of this eons old conflict are getting the good and bad of it over the air waves.
This would be a prime time for them to pause, look at all the rhetoric going on, than turn their back on everyone and just start getting down to brass tacks and put an end to their differences without others butting in.
Who knows. Maybe they'll team up and try to take over the world as a united front.