From Netanyahu's perspective, Trump's embrace of pro-settlement politics is a welcome change from President Obama, who pushed hard for Israeli-Palestinian peace negotiations in the early years of his presidency.
If a large portion of the population does not understand and accept that 1940-1991 was a period of occupation and does not believe that 1991 was a final settlement, then politics becomes not so much impossible as poisoned.
The hope to believe that one day Israel and Palestine will co-exist, away from the settlements and politics.
She leads a work-stream on political settlements and the politics of inclusion.
But what does it all mean as Europe gently frazzles and David Goodhart, ex-editor of Prospect, now director of the Demos thinktank, pens an ambitious FT article (paywall) promoting a new settlement for British politics, what he calls "post-liberalism"?
Instead, settlement negotiators say, politics and a slowing economy have trumped promises to fight smoking, leading many states to use the money for other needs, like public schools, elderly care and balancing the budget.
Just possibly the coup could end with a political settlement in which normal democratic politics resumes.
Even if one thinks the settlements are bad politics, the Arab world's rejection of the 1947 two-state resolution and the United Nations' acquiescence in this rejection deprive both the United Nations and the Palestinian Authority the high moral ground from which to launch a diplomatic assault on Israel.
Money will not solve the Boko Haram problem, and a political settlement would require a restructuring of Nigerian politics that would be difficult for any presidential administration to achieve.
In international politics the settlement at Utrecht established a pattern for the next 20 years.
There's a discussion among the men about the politics of settlement, but the scene is photographed in middle distance, and remains barely audible.
