The recent Bahrain Summit unveiled the economic part of the US’s latest peace plan, dubbed “The deal of the century”. Although some key countries attended, including Saudi Arabia, Egypt, Jordan, Qatar and the United Arab Emirates, the event was boycotted by other countries. The Palestinian Authority also boycotted it, once again proving that the reason that there is no peace between Israel and the Palestinians is that the Palestinian do not want peace. They have rejected every peace offer since 1948, including the extremely generous offer of 2008. The Palestinian position remains that it will settle for nothing less than the total destruction of Israel and the disappearance of all Jews from the Middle East, a process that they started in the 1920s, long before modern Israel was born. Until influential countries in the West come to terms with this reality and start acting accordingly peace will be impossible. This means putting pressure on the Palestinians rather than continuing to pressure Israel.