Yet another American-sponsored “peace plan” for Palestine has been unveiled, landing with the familiar thud of doomed diplomacy. A 20-point proposal, emerging from the ruins of Gaza and decades of failed negotiations, is being presented as a serious pathway to stability. But a cursory examination reveals it to be less a roadmap to peace and more a recipe for perpetuating the very injustices that fuel the conflict. Before the world rushes to applaud this latest US initiative, there are fundamental, glaring questions it leaves unanswered. The very authorship of this plan is its primary flaw. Why is the United States, a party that provides Israel with billions in annual military aid and consistently shields it from international accountability at the...