Last week, President Trump unveiled his proposed peace plan to end the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. The deal, which gives the Palestinians the majority of the West Bank, a capital in East Jerusalem, and a connecting line between the West Bank and Gaza, is very generous. But that didn’t stop Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas from immediately rejecting it and calling the plan “the slap of the century.”

Sadly, Abbas’s recalcitrance is not a fluke, but the natural expression of the Palestinian leadership’s long-standing refusal to accept any peace that doesn’t completely destroy Israel. In fact, Trump’s plan is remarkably similar to another generous peace deal previously proposed by Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Barak — a proposal that was met not just with refusal, but with violence.