Skepticism about the Middle East peace plan drawn up by U.S. President Donald Trump’s son-in-law abounds, but even a failed effort may play into the hands of Benjamin Netanyahu.

Details aside, Trump’s approach not only breaks with international law and long-held U.S. policies, it also enshrines historic U.S. responsibility in an unjust process that will ultimately backfire against Israel, the Palestinians, and American interests.

Security sources believe the Palestinian Authority will collapse economically within three months, but Abbas is unlikely to accept tax funds from Israel.

The number of Palestinian homes in occupied East Jerusalem that were demolished by Israel’s military in a single day peaked on April 29, when 31 structures were flattened, the UN’s envoy for Middle East peace said on Wednesday.

A group of masked settlers set fire to fields outside two Palestinian villages in the northern West Bank last Friday afternoon, according to the Israeli human rights group B’Tselem.

This comes only a day after Israel announced it was expanding the fishing zone as part of the cease-fire agreements with the two main factions in the Palestinian enclave, Hamas and Islamic Jihad.

Israel is a world leader in cybersecurity technologies and surveillance and, on platforms like Facebook and Twitter, uses predictive social media policing systems to increasingly limit Palestinians’ freedom of expression.

“The 2020 candidates are resisting the latest brush with war, but they’re not going far enough,” writes Peter Beinart.