The Israeli–Palestinian conflict has been raging for decades. Neither wars, terror attacks, uprisings, international treaties, peace agreements nor repeated promises to honor UN resolutions have changed a thing. There is deep mistrust between both parties, and practically no willingness to strike any kind of historic compromise to achieve peace.
In light of this gloomy status quo, the announcement by a US president to present a fresh peace plan to get things moving again should have been cause for cautious optimism.