The Arabs have been using (very effectively;y) scare tactics for the last 100 years and the West always falls for their lies and distortions.
The Paleostinian and Arab way is to threaten and intimidate you into thinking that the “powder keg is about to blow” and each and every turn in trying to find a solution. Note the Arab rhetoric right now.
If the Paleostinians (and Arab world) really wanted peace it would have happened in 1993 with Arafart and Oslo but, the truth the West has been ignoring since time immemorial is that the Arabs are neither ripe or ready fr peace of any kind. They have no concept of Peace, order, stability, Democracy, free thought, consent and everything that powers Western, Liberal Democracies like Israel.
So, until such time that the Arabs grow up, stop bellyaching and asking for trillions of Dollars in handouts to fund their terror operations, there will be no peace.
There could have been peace after 1967, at least within Israel. At the time, the Arabs in Judah and Samaria were elated that though utterly defeated they weren’t slaughtered en masse by vengeful Jooos! who remembered what was done in Gush Etzion in 1948 and in Hebron in 1929. Instead, they were treated leniently, and an impartial police force kept a fair and just peace between warring Arab families and clans for the first time in centuries. When the PLO arrived and tried to set up a base in Judah and Samariah, the Arabs living there refused to tolerate their presence. Over time that changed, and after Oslo things went downhill fast.
Got it. Interesting to see what Trump will decide to say at this point.