If, as the New York Times is reporting, the foremost success of last week’s Trump Mideast peace mission is that the Palestinians did not walk away from the process, there clearly remains a great deal of work to be done before the parties even sit down with intermediaries, much less each other. In postmortems of the time Jared Kushner, Jason Greenblatt and Dina Powell spent in the region (joined by US Ambassador David Friedman), pundits from Jerusalem and Ramallah to Washington, along with most of the Arab world, scoured the little known about the meetings themselves for any indication that the Trump quest for the “ultimate deal” would trump the “same-old—same-old” that is 24-years of mirror-image-efforts by three American administrations based on traditional politics. Little has surfaced so far. Not that different from the start of the last Secretary of State’s Kerry-Go-Round, the parties don’t want to burn bridges with the new president this early in his term. But on the Palestinian side, a clear line has been drawn by public and officialdom alike: President Trump won’t be taken seriously until he offers a clear embrace of the so-called “two-state solution.”