You have to salute the current Administration's effort to broker a peace deal between the Israelis and the Palestinians, but nobody should expect any miracles because extremists behind those on both sides of the negotiating table have no intention of seeing a workable peace deal come to fruition. Right-wing settlers and the hard-line religious party in Israel that represents them will never agree to a dismantling of illegal Jewish settlement in the West Bank, a necessary Israeli concession for peace to ever occur, and the leaders of Hamas and Hezbollah, the two radical militant Palestinian groups, will never agree to Israel's right to exist, a necessary Palestinian concession for a lasting peace to take hold.
Although there is much common ground upon which the parties could use to establish a pathway to peace, that route will probably never be traveled because hard-line interests on both sides of the aisle refuse to compromise. Still, making an attempt to find a peaceful solution is a laudable endeavor, and it surely beats the alternative, which is to do nothing.
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