Peace prospects: "messianic" & "delusional"

Getting Serious about the Prospect for Peace in the Mideast - Emanuele Ottolenghi

Despite the failure of successive attempts at peacemaking, and despite the current lack of favorable conditions to renew peace efforts, there is a broad international consensus that bringing the Israeli-Palestinian conflict to a happy ending is both possible and urgent. Western leaders periodically produce their own peace plans, in the almost messianic belief that if they can bring peace to Zion, its light will radiate far and wide.

Peacemaking belongs to yesteryear...Until [Palestinians embrace reality] any policy that centers on Palestinian-Israeli peace in our times is delusional.
(National Review)