White House pushes ahead with Mideast peace plan

Judging from recent terroristic actions, the Palestinians don’t deserve their own state.

Two words--coexistence and compromise. Neither can exist without the other.

Judging from recent terroristic actions, the Palestinians don’t deserve their own state.

No arguments here.

"White House pushes ahead with Mideast peace plan" apposed to the midwest? ;o)

They poured petrol on the innocent civilians and added fire. Great way for peace.

Kushner being called a 'senior adviser'. What a joke. Looking on the bright side, he'll be in prison soon enough anyway.

If Trump wants to side with Israel, great, then say that you are mediating with a bias in favor of one side. At least everyone will know where everyone stands.

This is another example of the US trying to force their will on Palestine. It is not up to the US to form any plan, this should be between the Palestinians and Israelis in accordance with well established US resolutions. The US is determined to continue causing havoc and mayhem in the middle east and it is time for the other nations of the world to push back. For the past 70 years there has been too much appeasement of the US and look where it has led us-to seventy years of constant war and US aggression.

Two words--coexistence and compromise. Neither can exist without the other.

Is either side really interested in that? I've seen little evidence over the years.

Certainly the embassy move does nothing to stop a two state solution, given that West Jerusalem is always been earmarked as what would be the Israeli capital under a two state solution and East Jerusalem the Palestinian area, but given the really bad blood between both sides, it just seems an impossible slog right now.

How long will the US and the rest of the world go along with this fiction of peace between the Israelis and Palestinians. The Palestinians repeatedly tell everyone who is willing to listen that their goal is to eliminate Israel as a sovereign state. Until that changes, and their is absolutely no indication whatsoever that is even being remotely considered, we will continue to see this groundhog day farce go on and on indefinitely. The Palestinians will never accept a two state solution - they just want Israel gone. Under these conditions any and all peace efforts are a cruel hoax.

@zichi: America is no longer a respected Middle East peacemaker.

The Palestinians under Hamas’ leadership and their Iranian sponsors hate America and always have. If you can accept that reality it is evident that America has never been seen as a neutral arbiter. It’s why Arafat turned down the Oslo Accords when the Israelis made many significant concessions and Palestinians were offered their own state. Clinton leaned hard on the Israelis and were rebuffed anyway.

Holding back Palestinian aid to bring pressure isn't a way to peace. Schools will end after the summer session because the teachers salaries are paid with the aid. 

American money and that of the European nations and others is being used by Palestinian “educators” to feed their children the idea that Jews are subhuman pigs. This only perpetuates the anti-Jewish hatred generation after generation.

"as millions of dollars in U.S. assistance to the Palestinians appears likely to be cut"

Perhaps the Chinese could contribute a few million?

America is no longer a respected Middle East peacemaker.

It wasn't under Obama, not at all for the Jewish people in any capacity.

Holding back Palestinian aid to bring pressure isn't a way to peace.

So why don't all the other Arab countries help them, they condemn Israel, call them every name in the book, but their Muslim brethren with all the money and all the resources can't help them?

Schools will end after the summer session because the teachers salaries are paid with the aid.

And some of that money, most of it will be used to fight the Israelis. In other words, they are making the situation.

Meanwhile aid to Israel is more than $3 billion.*

Yes, the only democracy in the middle east.

There are no more peace talks or talks of a two state solution. She of the aid helps Jordan with their support of more than 3 million Palestinian refugees who have no right to return home. Jordan is considered an ally of America.

Again, the other Arab can do a lot to help their fellow Muslim brethren, but they don't. If anyone is capable or should help them are the people surrounding them.

So why don't all the other Arab countries help them, they condemn Israel, call them every name in the book, but their Muslim brethren with all the money and all the resources can't help them?

Leaving the Palestinians in squalor is the primary means, outside of their past invasions of Israel, to eject Jews from their homeland. There are many gilded palaces bought with oil money throughout the Middle East. Virtually none of that money goes to the social benefit of Palestinians. They are purposely entrapped because surrounding Arab states refuse to resettle them in their own countries pending resolution of the conflict. Countries like Iran spend huge amounts of money to funnel arms into Gaza and the West Bank and to fund terrorism against Israel and their interests.

Given that the US 'peace plans' to date have been variations on Chamberlain's 'peace plan', I shudder to think what Trump is going to unveil.

It definitely won't be the only realistic peace plan, the reunification of Palestine as a democracy with all its legal population being recognized as citizens.

The Palestinians bear some responsibility for their own situation, like when they burn down their own schools and push their children into war zones to throw rocks at tanks, where they obviously will be hurt.

But without a balanced mediator there is no chance for peace, and that’s what Trump has taken off the table. He is being led by the nose by Netanyahu, a man who actively works against any peace process.