President Trump, and the four presidents who came before him, all tried their hands at bringing peace between Israel and the Palestinians, each attempting to learn from his predecessor. All failed. If the next president truly wishes to learn from prior mistakes, he ought not try in the first place, writes Michael Mandelbaum:

If there is to be a resolution to the conflict between the Jewish state and a putative Palestinian one, writes Jonathan Michanie, it won’t start with drawing lines on maps or restrictions on where Jews can build houses, but with the Palestinian Authority (PA) abandoning its official anti-Semitism. The PA can, in this regard, learn much from those Arab nations that have recently made peace with Israel: