Recurring claim

"Palestinians rejected every peace offer — there's no partner for peace."

Their strongest version

Camp David 2000, the Clinton Parameters, and Olmert's 2008 offer were rejected or left unanswered, and the Second Intifada followed the 2000 collapse.

The response

Read the record instead of the slogan. Camp David, 2000: no written offer was ever put on the table, and US participants like Rob Malley demolished the 'generous offer refused' story in print. The Arab Peace Initiative — full recognition of Israel by the entire Arab League in exchange for a state on 22% of historic Palestine — has sat on the table since 2002; Israel has never accepted it. Olmert's 2008 map was shown once and never handed over, by his own account. Meanwhile one fact needs no interpreter: the settler population has roughly tripled since Oslo. That is a physical answer to the question of who kept building on the land under negotiation. And the current Israeli government opposes any Palestinian state openly — Netanyahu campaigns on having prevented one. 'No partner' is a telescope pointed one way.

Don’t

Don't claim Arafat or Abbas never erred — negotiation failures had authors on all sides. The strong version of your case is 'the record is contested and the settlements are not,' not 'Palestinians did nothing wrong.'
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