The Problem With The Trump Administration’s Israeli-Palestinian Peace Plan
28th January 2020
There’s a problem with the Trump administration’s forthcoming Israeli-Palestinian peace plan, and it’s not the plan itself. The problem is that Palestinians are certain to reject the plan irrespective of its terms. We know this because history tells us so. As Lord Byron once said, “The best prophet of the future is the past.”
On Jan. 23, 2020, it was reported that the Trump administration would soon release its long-awaited plan for peace between Israelis and Palestinians. That plan, the Washington Post reported, was finished in 2019 but “kept under wraps amid political turmoil in Israel.” The plan was finally unveiled on Jan. 28, 2020, but it hardly matters since the Palestinian Authority (PA), which rules the West Bank, announced long ago that it would oppose the plan.
Indeed, the PA initiated a public campaign against the so-called “deal of the century” back in 2018 — before its terms were fully formulated, much less public.
The problem with all such ‘peace plans’ is that if one side wants war, you’ll get war.
The ‘Palestinian’ Authority’s problem is the same as that of the Democrats: They’ve been brainwashing their ‘base’ toward extremism for two generations, and so anything other than total surrender by Israel/Republicans (which isn’t going to happen) will be automatically rejected. This means that no agreement is possible.