Peace is impossible for now

No matter the good intentions the fact of the matter is the Arabs do not want peace they want the end of Israel - period.
Last evening 350 protesters were injured outside the Israeli Embassy in Cairo. They were not demonstrating against "occupation" but for the removal of the Israeli Ambassador and the abrogation of the peace agreement with Israel. The protesters on the Lebanese and Syrian Borders were not there because of 1967 or 1973 or even 2006 they were there because of 1948 the establishment of the Jewish State in the Middle East which they wish reversed. This is what they say and this is what they mean. They will not sign any agreement which does not include a provision entitling the original Arabs who left or fled from Israel during the War of Independence and all of their descendants notwithstanding that the vast majority of them have never set foot in Israel and in normal circumstances do not come within the definition of "refugee" to settle in the State of Israel, thereby nullifying the idea of two states for two peoples.
Consequently pressurizing Israel to abandon that part of its ancient homeland in Judea and Samaria for some nebulous "Peace Agreement" which would not be worth the paper on which it was written would be foolhardy in the extreme.
Sad to say there is no end in sight. As it stands the Arabs will not rest as long as there is a Jewish State. Every time Israel bows to pressure and concedes something it just emboldens the Arabs to ask for more. The recent debacle over the settlement freeze is a case in point. The Quartet need to appreciate that peace will not come about by forcing Israel to do things that will never pacify her enemies.
Consequently and for the foreseeable future Israel will have to maintain the status quo and balance its security needs with how much latitude it can give to the Arabs to manage their own affairs. That has worked to the extent that the World Bank now says the PLO is capable of running a State but of course such a State so far as Israel is concerned cannot come into being as a stepping stone to the demise of the Jewish State but only as an end in itself. When the Arabs accept that then we might be able to talk about two states for two peoples.