Timeline of Israeli-Palestinian peace talks as Trump vows to ‘get it done’

It's an achievement that has proved elusive, yet continues to be a top objective for each successive American president: Middle East peace.

Aaron David Miller, a veteran peace negotiator for both Republican and Democratic administrations, said about President Trump on Twitter last week, “never in decades of involvement have I heard a U.S. president more confident with less prospect.” Another longtime Middle East diplomat, Robert Danin, replied to Miller on Twitter: “But have you seen one less confident with greater prospect?”

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Historically, Washington’s approach has been, “We know what the final deal will look like, we just have to get the two parties there,” according to Jonathan Schanzer, a research fellow with the Foundation for Defense of Democracies in Washington, D.C. The new thinking, he told reporters last week, seems to say, “We want a deal but we don't know what that final framework will look like.”

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