Dr. James M. Dorsey, senior fellow at NTU’s RSIS wrote in a commentary that US President Donald J. Trump’s “Deal of the Century” Israeli-Palestinian peace plan does not stand a chance of resolving one of the world’s most intractable conflicts. Trump’s civilisationalist approach towards solving the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and Netanyahu’s enthusiastic embrace of the plan threatens to not only put Israel at the cutting edge of the struggle to shape a new world; it risks turning Israel into a poster child of everything that is wrong with civilisationalism.