He believes the Israel-Palestine conflict is the least likely to be resolved by Trump because it involves deeply complicated identity and religious issues rather than simple land deals.

“my gut instinct is that that's the least likely one that Trump's going to want to get involved in because as soon as you get away from a real estate developer dealing with land deals to really complicated questions of identity, religion, shared land. You've lost Trump's attention in time.”

He asserts that the Israeli blockade of Gaza and the resulting humanitarian crisis deserve more explicit condemnation from the international community.

“I still can't for the life of me understand why it's not being called out more than it is, including by our own government and by the American government and by the French and by the Germans.”

George Mitchell believes that the rising capacity for destruction in the modern era will eventually compel regional leaders to resolve their differences.

“I think that that very fact is going to lead the leaders of the region eventually to come to recognition that what they're fighting for and against cannot be achieved through the means that they are using and that they the capacity for Destruction is growing so rapidly that they will then understand”