Trump's plan never had a snowballs chance in hell of success! No new plan is going to cover the war crimes of the occupier, illegally annexing territory. As for Akleh's death? It had more to do with the years of ongoing illegal occupation and the illegal annexing of Palestinian and the bullet that killed him came from an Israeli gun!

David as usual tries to excuse the inexcusable! And needs to stop what he does. And try to talk from a lot higher up!
Alan B.

That's a really cheap shot David Singer,
Like saying the mass shootings in the US were the fault of gun laws or some other thing,
- Rather than placing the blame directly on the one who fired the bullet.

Meanwhile while not check out an essay which provides an accurate description of the all-the-way-down-the-line benighted applied politics of right-wing Israeli nationalists - which is mutating almost every day.

It is by by Philip Weiss titled A small, arrogant, violent, wicked nation and a Jewish mutation.

#Allan B

You state:
1. "Trump's plan never had a snowballs chance in hell of success!"

Why? It offered an independent second Arab state - in addition to Jordan - in 70% of the last remaining 5% the territory of the Mandate for Palestine for the first time in recorded history - giving self determination to 95% of the Arab population living in the West Bank and 100% of the Arab population in Gaza.

End result: The Arabs would end up with about 80% of the territory of the Mandate for Palestine and the Jews 20% - when the prospect of the Arabs getting any part of Palestine in 1920 was nil.

What madness would possess the PLO to refuse to at least negotiate on Trump's Plan - even worse - to refuse to negotiate on any plan to be proposed by Trump before its terms were even known?

2. "the bullet that killed him came from an Israeli gun!"

Actually Akleh was a woman - not a man. You can't even get that right.

What is your evidence for concluding that the bullet came from an Israeli gun when that has not been established?

#Armchair critic

It is irrefutable that Palestinian Arab violence in the West Bank and Gaza escalated after the PLO refused to negotiate with Israel on Trump's Plan. Had negotiations been commenced it is reasonable to assume such violence would not have occurred whilst those negotiations were in progress - certainly not on the scale that happened.

Comparing the situation in the West Bank and Gaza - where conflict for control of these areas between Arabs and Jews has been raging since 1920 - to gun violence in the US being horrendously and mindlessly committed by mentally disturbed individuals - is nonsense.

Successful negotiations between Israel and the PLO could end the violence. No amount of amendments to the US gun laws will stop a repeat of the insanity of Uvalde

Trump says Netanyahu "never wanted peace" with the Palestinians
http://www.axios.com/2021/12/13/trump-middle-east-peace-netanyahu

#Daffy Duck

Yes - there are Jews who are not Zionists like Philip Weiss.

They existed when the Balfour Declaration was made in 1917 and have continued to do so ever since and will do so in the future. They see no need to have an independent State where Jews are the majority population.

It is fine for the Arabs to have 22 such countries where Arabs are the majority - but one for the Jews is too much for these Jewish anti-Zionists to support.

More interestingly - why do you oppose Zionists for doing what the League of Nations and the United Nations legally empowered them to do - reconstitute the Jewish National home in 22% of the territory comprised in the Mandate for Palestine after 3000 years of dispersion?

After all this is taking place on Jewish biblical and historic territory whose area is about one third the size of Tasmania or the size of New Jersey.

Should world peace continue be threatened because Jewish anti-Zionist haters like Philip Weiss give oxygen to organisations such as the PLO, Hamas, Hezbollah and Islamic Jihad - and also Iran - who also do not agree to this Jewish nation building that begun 100 years ago?