(JNS.org ) Jonathan S. Tobin - Sometime in the next few months, the details of President Trump's Middle East peace plan will be unveiled as part of an effort to revive the peace process between Israel and the Palestinians. But this scheme has no more chance of working than the efforts of his predecessors because the essential element for peace is still missing. The Palestinians are still stuck in a mindset that rejects Israel's legitimacy. The Palestinian Authority won't accept a deal that ends the conflict no matter where the U.S. and the Saudis draw the borders, how much of Jerusalem the Palestinians receive, how many descendants of the 1948 refugees are allowed to "return," or even how much money is thrown at them. That's because the Palestinians' national identity is still inextricably bound up in a futile century-old war on Zionism that its people have been taught to think they will eventually win. At various times, the PA has declared a willingness to accept peace. Yet every such gesture has been undermined by its cradle-to-grave incitement that promotes a culture of hatred for Israel and Jews, and makes new rounds of bloodshed inevitable.
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