At what point do they realize that doing the same thing over and over again leads to no progress. It’s going to take bold moves if any kind of peace will ever come. Dealing with the Palestinian leadership would be comical if it wasn’t so deadly.
They have to step up and solve their own problems at some point. And while at the UN, the non-voting Palestinian delegation pushes (lightly) for “independence” for some reason they don’t declare it themselves. No country that I know of was created by other people. They have to create it for themselves. There are plenty of countries that have border disputes and the status of the border is not a reason to delay peace. Indeed if they could enforce peace the rest of the pieces would more quickly fall into place. Merkel is wrong to expect the world, and Israel, to wait for the Palestinians to get themselves together. Merkel is still on the playbook from the 1990s. It hasn’t and doesn’t work. Though in one aspect the framework was correct - the Palestinians need leadership - the problem is they are not really one people of one mind, they are a people led by a kleptocracy who benefit from conflict, not from peace.
The status quo, factual but particularly ideological, is hard to break with. So it happens too rarely. For what it's worth, I understand Romania will not move their Embassy. The importance of that, for Romania, Germany or even Israel eludes me.