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Twice we have had US presidents come out in support of "peace plans" and the result has been slaughters of large numbers of innocent people. I'm referring to Clinton and Bush. Now we have a third president, Trump, on the threshold and the best we can hope for is that no one gets hurt. The premise on which these plans on based is false. In terms of achieving anything practicable, they are a complete waste of time.I'll tell you what peaceful co-existence looks like in Israel and what makes it happen.There are 9 million residents in Israel of which 25 per cent are minorities, in large measure Muslims. I live in a medium-size town. If you take the time to walk around you'll meet Muslim doctors, lawyers, dentists, pharmacists, cops, bank managers, bank tellers, supermarket managers, check-out girls, bus drivers, truck drivers, construction workers, IT employees, people from all walks of life earning a living and minding their own business. You couldn't tell who is a Jew and who is a Muslim in most cases, unless you knew their family name, because they speak a fluent Hebrew.Leaving aside the criminal classes, which exist among all peoples, the vast majority of Muslims are like that, law-abiding citizens. All these people have gone though the Israeli school system. Teaching of hatred of anyone, regardless of race, color, or creed, is not permitted. Let's go to Judea and Samaria aka the West Bank of the Jordan River. The future of these two territories is what hangs in the balance in the so-called "peace" processes. They were the core territories of the original Israeli state, which lasted 1,500 years. In the 1948 war they were overrun by the Jordanians. Israel liberated them in the 1967 war and ever since their final status has not been resolved.Starting in 1994 they have been under the partial control of the Palestinian Liberation Organization (PLO). At one point there was support in Israel for turning over Judea and Samaria to the PLO as well as Gaza, which is a separate