If the Trump administration has learned anything this week, it’s that diplomacy is difficult.

The White House’s 181-page Middle East peace plan — a product of over three years of meetings, strategy sessions, and trips to the region — landed with a thud this week. Within an hour of its release, the plan sank like a rock into the deep, watery grave where the bodies of numerous previously proposed Israel-Palestine peace plans lie wasting away.

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