I simply have nothing to add to this. Hussein has written what might be the most insightful overview conceivable of where the U.S./Israel/Palestine stands at this moment. If you read nothing else on the subject, read this. There’s just too much good stuff to blockquote, but I’ll peel this off:

As long as the administration persists and remains, as all its leaders keep saying it is, “determined,” to see this process through, there is no reason for anyone to despair. There is, after all, no other choice: it’s either a slow, gradual and, yes, painful, inching towards a two-state agreement, or its war, conflict and occupation into the foreseeable future and catastrophe all around. Despairing, giving up and walking away is too irresponsible for this administration, for the United States, or for anyone with the best interests of Palestinians, Israelis and Americans at heart. It’s a nihilistic reaction, and it lacks both political and intellectual substance and moral fiber.