President Donald Trump’s envoy for the Mideast peace process, Jason Greenblatt, is urging people to stop their “guessing games” about the administration’s yet-to-be-unveiled “deal of the century” for Israeli-Palestinian peace.

“We’ve been working hard drafting what we believe is a fair, realistic & implementable plan,” he tweeted on April 16. “Fair agreements require compromises.” Several hours later, Israel shared its idea of “fair” and “compromise” when bulldozers stormed the Palestinian neighborhood of Wadi Yetzol, established some 30 years ago at the foot of Jerusalem’s Old City, turning a string of shops, warehouses and barns into rubble. After the Supreme Court rejected their petition against the Jerusalem municipality, residents fear the city will now demolish the neighborhood’s 60 homes housing 500 people.

The houses are built on private land owned by residents, but unfortunately for them, the area is designed in zoning plans as “green and open land.” The non-profit Elad organization has also built in that area without benefit of a building permit, but things are different for Jews, especially those affiliated with the radical right. The municipal authorities recently asked the local zoning committee re-zone the land in order to provide the NGO with permits for the illegal structures it erected there. Ironically, the disputed zoning request pertains to land known as the “Peace Forest.”

Secretary of State Mike Pompeo told CNN April 13 that he does not believe Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s declared intention to annex the West Bank would be detrimental to a two-state solution. It is unclear whether Pompeo believes Netanyahu’s annexation declarations would harm the US peace plan because he doesn't take them seriously, or if he was hinting that annexation of the West Bank or of 60% of its area (designated as West Bank Area C, under Israeli control) is part of Greenblatt's “fair” compromise. It doesn't really matter. The Peace Forest case proves that annexation is already underway. It started off at a crawl, but with generous government support, it's picked up speed. In recent years, hailed by senior politicians, the annexation has been galloping wildly ahead without any domestic or foreign impediment. As a result, in the quarter century since Israel and the Palestinians signed their historic 1993 Oslo Accord, designed to bring Israel’s occupation of the West Bank to an end, the number of Israeli settlers there has quadrupled — not even counting Jewish residents of predominantly Palestinian East Jerusalem.