The multibillion-dollar development plan for the West Bank unveiled by US Secretary of State John Kerry in Jordan this weekend is the first practical manifestation of the renewed US interest in promoting a diplomatic plan to end Israel's occupation and establish a Palestinian state.
Yet while no doubt well-intentioned, there is no indication that this latest injection of enthusiasm to improve the declining lot of Palestinians, who have been ruled for almost half a century by Israel, will fare any better than its failed predecessors, or indeed that there is any reason to think that it even should.