Israel-Palestinian Negotiations Have Gone Nowhere. Would Coexistence Work?

Decades of negotiations have achieved little in terms of peace between Israel and the Palestinians, and territorial compromise seems increasingly dangerous. Could improved economic ties discourage Palestinians from further violence, and give them an incentive to prevent the extremists among them from committing mayhem? A billion-dollar plan to build a model Palestinian city called Rawabi might offer a model of how this could happen. Clifford May writes: