The Trump economic plan to bring peace to Israel and the “Palestinians” has finally been announced, and essentially it consists of giving the “Palestinians” money so that they will turn away from their jihad. This is predicated on the oft-discredited notion that jihad violence is a result of poverty, and it has been tried and has failed before. As I show in my forthcoming book The Palestinian Delusion: The Catastrophic History of the Middle East Peace Process, which will be out later this year and which you can preorder here, the “Palestinian” jihad is not based on poverty or a desire to regain “stolen land”; rather, it stems from deeply held Islamic imperatives that have prevented every negotiated settlement from bringing peace, and which will continue to do so.

“Six fires rage in Israel’s South as a result of incendiary devices from Gaza,” Jerusalem Post, June 23, 2019: