Ever since he was elected, President Trump has told us that he has a long awaited “Ultimate Deal” to finally bring peace between the Israelis and the Palestinians. Rumors and speculation abound about what exactly is in the details. We have seen that certainly since the administration of President Bill Clinton, each president, and several Israeli Prime Ministers have tried to offer the Palestinians progressively more and more land, and each time the Palestinians have walked away from the table, only to be met with a renewed round of violence.

However, one cannot be too certain that the Palestinians will continue to follow this pattern of rejecting the offer that an Israeli Prime Minister might make and an American President might mediate.

What precisely is and is not in the details, and how has one gleaned that information? How will this proposal affect the security of Israel and the welfare of the Palestinians? How will it impact an already volatile Middle East with new alliances emerging, albeit under the table, with the Gulf states?  And particularly now, that the Palestinians are even more fractionalized than before, who will speak for the Palestinians?

Here to answer these questions are two prominent experts: Dr. Daniel Pipes and Jeff Ballabon.