"The road not taken by Kerry, a transition agreement, would have led the U.S. to seek a broad understanding between the parties that would temporarily bypass the insoluble core issues yet allow for the speedy establishment of a Palestinian state over 70 percent to 90 percent of the West Bank. Such a transition agreement would allow Israel and the Palestinians to dramatically change the political landscape while temporarily setting aside the most difficult issues that have prevented an agreement for the past 20 years that have elapsed since the signing of the Oslo Accords."(1)
While retaining the most important portion in eastern Jerusalem & Greater Jerusalem of the major settlement blocks?
That's hardly reasonable. Nor unreasonable to reject.
If The US State of New York is to secede from the US, but the US retain New York City, that'd plunge the new nation-state of New York into recession.
The same would be likely for a Palestinian state without the most important portion.
I have never been served a birthday cake on my birthdays without the icing layer, that'd be absurd. But unfortunately the Israeli governments wants the cake and to eat it too!
Footnote:
(1) http://www.washingtoninstitute.org/policy-analysis/view/john-kerry-doomed-the-israeli-palestinian-talks-by-refusing-to-consider-a-t
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