Every administration since 1967 have been trying to negotiate a peace plan between Israel and the Palestinians without success. Trump's plan offers them a lot less than past administrations have. I would say 'dead on arrival' is an understatement.
I haven’t caught up on all the details such as percentage of land area etc. Looks like they offered swaps of land to expand Gaza in return for the Israeli settlement blocks build around Jerusalem. A few months back Jared Kushner was trying to raise $50 billion, most for Palestinian development but some for Jordan and Egypt. I figure that number will go up in negotiations. Supposedly Clinton offered $30 billion back in 1999.
What I like about Trump’s approach here is that unlike all previous attempts he is doing this out in the open. All others were secret meetings which allowed people to make up excuses to refuse and to get their militias and gangs to riot and protest. Doing this in the open bypasses, to some degree, the power of the leadership because the people themselves are observers and the ‘man on the street’ opinion will have an impact in how the leaders can respond. It’s sort of like Trump’s campaign style - appeal to the people and bypass the traditional machines.
Outsider pressure will also play a part but to some degree I think it will be harder to be intransigent if some large majority of the people think “enough of this war, let’s get our state, let’s build it into a productive society so our children and future generations can have a better life”. Hey, I can hope at least... as it is they’ve forsaken 5 or 6 generations to poverty and strife. Time to end it.
And also should mention, Palestinians have a leadership vacuum. Abu Mazen is very old, no clear successor, and he has several rival factions like Hamas in Gaza who stripped a lot of his power. Time for a deal is now.
People said other things ‘can’t be done’ and yet it was accomplished under this administration. This will be a heavy lift but not impossible.....