{"id":366714,"date":"2018-06-25T18:09:04","date_gmt":"2018-06-25T17:09:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/a-worthless-peace-plan-for-israel-and-palestine\/"},"modified":"2018-06-25T18:09:04","modified_gmt":"2018-06-25T17:09:04","slug":"a-worthless-peace-plan-for-israel-and-palestine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/a-worthless-peace-plan-for-israel-and-palestine\/","title":{"rendered":"A Worthless ‘Peace Plan’ for Israel and Palestine"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Originally appeared on The American Conservative<\/a>.<\/i><\/p>\n

The Trump administration is pressing ahead<\/a> with its worthless \u201cpeace plan\u201d for Israel and Palestine:<\/p>\n

Asked by the newspaper\u2019s editor, Walid Abu-Zalaf, about an Abbas spokesman\u2019s dismissal of Mr. Kushner\u2019s trip as a \u201cwaste of time\u201d that was \u201cbound to fail,\u201d Mr. Kushner said he believed Palestinian leaders were \u201csaying those things because they are scared we will release our peace plan and the Palestinian people will actually like it.\u201d<\/i><\/p>\n

There is no chance that Palestinians living in the West Bank and Gaza will like anything the Trump administration has to offer. That shouldn\u2019t have to be said, but I suppose it has to be when the press is talking about this farce of a \u201cpeace plan\u201d as if it were a serious proposal. The U.S. has never been an \u201chonest broker\u201d between the Israelis and Palestinians, and Trump has made a point of emphasizing that this administration is extremely biased against the latter. From moving the US embassy to Jerusalem over Palestinian objections to covering for Israeli crimes against protesters in Gaza, the Trump administration has been very clear that it couldn\u2019t care less what any Palestinians think about anything.<\/p>\n

The administration wants credit for feigning interest in the \u201cpeace process,\u201d but everyone can see that Kushner\u2019s proposal has no merit. Much as the administration has done with Iran, they are making an insulting \u201coffer\u201d that they know will be rejected so that they can blame someone else for their failure. It is a cynical way to claim that they have given diplomacy a chance while making no effort to do the real work and take the political risks that real diplomacy requires. <\/p>\n

Daniel Larison is a senior editor at <\/i>The American Conservative<\/a>, where he also keeps a solo blog<\/a>. He has been published in the<\/i> New York Times Book Review, Dallas Morning News, Orthodox Life, Front Porch Republic, The American Scene, and Culture11, and is a columnist for<\/i> The Week. He holds a PhD in history from the University of Chicago, and resides in Dallas. Follow him on Twitter<\/a>. This article is reprinted from<\/i> The American Conservative<\/a> with permission.<\/i><\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n

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