leaders from Egypt, Qatar, and Turkey are all trying to convince Hamas to accept President

Trump's peace plan to end the war in Gaza. That's a plan Israel has already agreed to.

Hamas is still weighing the deal, but reportedly considers some parts of it unacceptable.

It's a crucial moment, and it's a continuation of past American efforts to end the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.

Nick Schifrin has more on the historical context. For decades, the U.S. has tried to resolve

the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Those efforts, despite deep passion among the mediators,

and endless work with both sides, failed. Why? And is there a direct line from the success of the

Oslo Accords in 1993 to the horrific violence of the October 7 terrorist attacks and subsequent

Israeli war in Gaza? Those are the questions being asked by Robert Malley, who 25 years ago

participated in peace talks at Camp David. He later worked with the Obama administration on Mideast peace, as well as negotiating with Iran,

a role he resumed during the beginning of the Biden administration.

And now Mali has written a new book, co-authored with longtime Palestinian negotiator Hussein Aga,

called Tomorrow is Yesterday, Life, Death, and the Pursuit of Peace in Israel, Palestine.

Rob Malley, thanks very much. Welcome back to the News Hour. The title is Tomorrow is Yesterday, and you write this in the prologue, Israelis and Palestinians are back where they were decades ago. But from the outside, things look in many ways worse than ever. So why that title? That's a good way to start. Let's look at where we are today, which is what propelled us to write this book.

Palestinians being forced to flee and then flee from the area that they just flew.

And then being bombed in the place that they were told to take refuge from the first bomb,

being deprived of food, of water, everything.

Israelis on October 7th being the victim of a massacre. What you, what you? What give?

Palestinians resorting to individual acts of violence doing what they can because vengeance is their only horizon.

So we are where we were in the past, and the real question is, how come after, you know, from 92 to now, look at where we are.

And the explanation, to really sum it

up in one word, is that this American-led peace process was meaningless. It was fleeting. It didn't

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