But it does mean that the international community recognizes the need for nuance in this case, and failing to recognize that need has resulted in what we're seeing now. Whenever the situation called for a screwdriver, Trump would bring a jackhammer.
In other words, he was too busy causing problems and conflict at home for the media to cover all the problems and conflict he was creating abroad. That's not a positive thing, no matter how you try to spin it.
Palestine would be an internationally recognised and sovereign state by now if not for Yasser Arafat who was well-known for refusing to negotiate and rejecting any and all offers of statehood, including ones drafted by the UN. Bill Clinton has a pretty good recollection of what happened at Camp David - hate to link to The Guardian, but oh well:
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2002/may/23/israel3
Trump didn't make Palestinians hate the Jews - they've hated the Jews since the state of Israel was conjured up into existence at the end of the British Mandate - a less-than-ideal solution, to be fair, but after WWII establishing an independent Jewish state seemed like a relevant priority. Trump didn't make them lob rockets and mortar shells over the border, they've been doing that consistently since the end of the Six-day war.
Palestinian leaders have been offered land to govern as their own independent state on at least 5 separate occasions since the dissolution of the Ottoman Empire:
- in 1936 after the Arab Revolt, by the Peel Commission
- in 1947, by the UN
- in 1967 after the conclusion of the Six Day War, by the Israeli government
- in 2000 at Camp David, by the Israeli government
- in 2008, by the Israeli government
Israel accepted all offers made by third-parties, Palestinian leaders rejected all of them, and often answered with violence. As such, I have to conclude that the two-state solution is not viable and the argument is over a pile of rocks standing on a sand mound, and I can't sympathise with that too much.
With that being said, I also can't sympathise with Israel too much either - they are heavy-handed in their approach. It's the definition of a Jewish ethnostate, and it operates this way by design. The Jewish government is more than happy to use its military might against what amounts to insurgents with RPG's. The tragic part is that both sides are funded with the U.S. dollar and, if the last century is anything to go by, this conflict will continue for as long as the two sides have the means to continue it.
In short, both sides suck. Palestinians might be at a military disadvantage, however they've made it clear that they don't want peace, they want to win. If they keep refusing offers of a two-state solution, I see no reason why Palestine should be recognised as a state at all - technically it's all Israeli land. The Israeli government, in a pretty generous move, already bestowed autonomy to it and allowed Palestinians to govern it as they please in the Oslo Accords. That didn't stop the violence, so I'm under no delusion that a more passive response from Israel would when their citizens are regularly attacked with rockets, mortar fire and suicide bombers.
