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(58,724 posts)Trump being POTUS makes everything worse, that's for sure. And the Israeli and Palestinian leaderships are also less than ideal.
I think one of the problems with the BDS movement is that there is no clear goal. Different people have different ideas about what it is all about and what conditions would constitute a solution. The founder of the movement, for example, supports a one-state solution. There is also language on the BDS website that is quite extreme.
For example, Israel could remove all settlements and withdraw completely to the 1967 line and that would not satisfy the conditions indicated on the BDS website.
I think there needs to be more energy around the Geneva Initiative instead which actually presents a solution that is reasonable and that asks for compromise from both sides.