It is difficult to overstate the importance of the moment and the significance of the Trump administration's peace plan. The American move, and those of Israel following it, may enter history as a formative event whose importance in determining the borders of the country does not fall short of events we have known in the past.

True, this is not the first time that Americans are publishing a peace plan in an effort to end the conflict. But this time is going to be different. First, because, unlike previous plans, the Centennial Plan is intertwined with the realities of the field and is not based on dreams in Asphemia. Second, because the Trump administration has enjoyed a regional status that the US has not known for many years. And finally, because the centennial plan is likely to be aligned with Israel. True, the publication of the plan and the moves that Israel may follow will surely provoke a chorus of condemnations around the world, but all of these are meaningless. Faced with the Trump administration's stabilization of Israel's right, it is also coordinating with some of the Arab states, and these may be enlisted to help advance its plan.

The American move may therefore give Israel the ability, for the first time in its history, to dictate its own boundaries in accordance with security considerations and in accordance with Israeli interests. Still, in the center of the room, there is a big double - the big question - or the big disappearance: where is the bride? Where are the Palestinians? After all, the moment of publication of the Century Plan could have been their big time. After all, the Trump administration's plan is not ignored, but rather intertwined with the realities on the ground, and it certainly addresses the long-term needs, and even the expectations of the Palestinian population, even if it does not "master" all the Palestinian demands.

But the Palestinian leadership hurried before the details of the plan were rejected. It is a public, well-known and predictable response, and so disappointing. As a matter of fact, there is a very reasonable basis that even if the Americans had promised the Palestinians mountains and hills, their answer would still be negative. This is a permanent pattern in Palestinian history, rooted in the weakness and inability of the Palestinian leadership for generations to make fateful decisions, to face Palestinian public opinion and to persuade it with the necessity and inevitability of concessions and compromises. The domestic struggle between the PLO and Hamas, such as the battle in Ramallah for the Abbas' inheritance, certainly does not help.

Instead of taking their fate in their hands, the Palestinians have always sought to impose their hopes on others in the hope that they will do the work for them. In the past, these were Arab countries on the battlefield with Israel, and today the international community in the field of political struggle. Weakness and desecration, and perhaps simply the absence of a national backbone, and of course, the difficulty of recognizing reality and acceptance and disengagement from the dream - all these have always been in the minds of the Palestinians, and even today, they are refusing a proposal that will doubt them if they accept it in the future. The Palestinians can, as usual, decide to refuse the plan and wait for the next elections in Israel or the US. They can also resort to ways of violence and confrontation, to the point of declaring the PA dismantled.

Either way, a Palestinian decision to reject the Century Plan is like another nail in the coffin of the Palestinian state idea. For such a possibility, moreover, the State of Israel must prepare.