recent actions by both Israel and the United States seem to suggest otherwise.Besides, there is a fundamental disconnect in the Western approach to the "Israeli-Palestinian conflict": the Palestinians are not struggling for peace; they are struggling for freedom.Palestine struggle is against second-class citizenship for Palestinian citizens of Israel, the expansion of settlements, land confiscation in the West Bank and East Jerusalem,and the strangling siege in Gaza. In all cases, it comes down to a struggle for freedom and a future where todays Palestinians and future generations can forge their own future outside the yoke of Israel.This goes beyond the obvious hypocrisy Netanyahu displays on a regular basis. His occasional statements of support for two states are empty, as he makes clear when he routinely accompanies them with qualifiers such as the need for Israel to maintain control over the Jordan Valley.Indeed, in Palestine, Israeli desires for peace are nothing more than a preference for Palestinians to acquiesce in their own oppression.A view reinforced by Israeli overwhelming demands on the Palestinians.What Donald Trup and most of Westerns fail to understand is that a negotiating frameword cannot treat an occupying power and an occupied people equally as it has been doing for the last 50 years because of Israel's increased strategic importance to the USA, while the Palestinians offer, concretely, little. Not mention the hasbara power of European guilt over the holocaust, that has made the idea of "Never Again", tragically, lose all of its humanism and universalism with the Nakba that followed, immediately, World War II.Concomitantly with the ethnic cleansing of Palestine, Israelis were induced by the hasbara to fear that Palestinians want not only their own freedom but to control the entire area that was Mandatory Palestine under British rule before 1948 and, therefore, to limit or even eliminate the Jewish presence there today.All the reasons above come back to the same point: Israeli and Palestinian goals are not the same. Moreover, Palestinians have noted that settlement expansions has continued apace regardless of any initiative of "peace talks". Thus, they rightfully fear that peace will just bring more dispossession while the world is satisfied with the quiescent region.It doesnt really matter, for these purposes, how realistic the fears of either side may be. What matters is the political force that they have. This is why an outside arbiter has always been necessary. But to be effective, such an arbiter must also be cognizant of the realities. Such an outsider must understand that Israel is a highly valued member of the global economy and the global military-industrial complex. It must be dealt with on that level, but even then, any realistic arbiter must also understand that Israel still needs its allies more than its allies need it. That is true for the United States, and for other countries as well.That arbiter must also understand that, in order to resolve this conflict, Palestinian freedom must be valued as highly as the freedom and rights of any Western people. Palestinians are certainly aware of the far greater military, diplomatic, economic, and political power Israel has.