The model of disparate cantons, effectively operating as glorified municipalities and surrounded by a sea of Israeli settlers, is little different from that of "black homelands", or Bantustans, established in apartheid-era South Africa.
Now, it seems, the Trump administration is ready to support this racist idea as a way to promote regional peace.
The Americans hope that, with a few sweeteners, the Palestinians can be made to swallow this bitter pill. It is an idea Netanyahu has advanced for some time, with his talk of "economic peace" or what might be better termed "economic pacification".
But the current impasse on taxes shows that buying off the Palestinians with bribes, in return for the abandonment of core national goals, may not prove so easy.
With the PA close to collapse, it is hard to see how Trump's deal of the century can do anything other than speed up the authority's demise.
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