For god's sake, nobody mention brain surgery to Trump or let him anywhere near a hospital.

There will never be peace between Palestine and Israel. Palestine wants to wipe Israel off the map. Trump has enough trouble bring about peace in the U.S without whipping Middle East dead horses. It's been tried and tried by better diplomats and negotiators than Trump, and peace will never be achieved.

“Distrust: The pervasive and mutual distrust cannot be assuaged through negotiation, nor dispelled by simply agreeing to begin to trust one another-it is a process that must be nurtured.”

Therefore, there is no point in even uttering the word 'peace'. End of story.

Hi Ttbn,

Yes, as long as Hamas and the Palestine Authority and Wahhabism and Sunni Islam and Islam generally all claim that, once land becomes Muslim, it remains Muslim forever, then nobody can seriously and honestly claim to allow Israel to exist otherwise. The destruction of Israel, and more crudely of all Jews, will never be off the agenda as long as Islam retains this fascist principle.

But the Palestine-Israel dilemma will remain a side-show in the current Middle East, there are far bigger issues at stake, and pending: once the battle to exterminate the ISIS Islamo-fascists has been temporarily won, the struggles between the Saudis and the Turks over control of Sunni-majority Syria, and simultaneously between Sunni and Shia Islam along their respective N-S and E-W axes, will resume. Not to mention the war between the Turks and the Kurds.

Kurds ? Thirty million. Palestinians ? Five million. Palestine is a mere side-show, until all those other conflicts are resolved.

Cheers,

Joe

There will only be peace when America and the rest of the world draws the line, no consultations, and tell Israel and the Palestinians: "You stay on this side", "You stay on that side", "Off to bed right now, no more fighting or I come with a big broom".

Hate to have to say this Alon, but you as ever, seem to be overstating the blindingly obvious?
Nothing more to add. except, and this encapsulates the Israeli under Nethanyahu, effort to date?
One fine day in the middle of the night.
two dead men got up to fight.
Back to back they faced each other,
drew their swords and shot each other. (Anon.)

Alan B.

That there can be change, and that there are positive
alternatives is evident; all we need is the right
leadership for us to find and take direction.
Unfortunately, we currently don't have it.

Maurice Strandgard argued back in 1989:

"Somewhere there must be a place
Called Little Peace
Where men with little humanity
Do not have the power
To make great decisions.
Where little fears do not lessen
The so small span
Of our lives,
Where
For once
We can know peace,
Just a little.
To know the taste of it."