Israel will never allow Palestine to exist as a viable state. Talk, whatever the content, is only that

Agreed. At the moment they are not even talking, and none of the talking for the last ten years or more has been in the slightest bit meaningful. Israel will concede nothing. They simply don't have to, because the US will never abandon them. The Israel lobby will see to that. Israel wants those settlements, it has a massive army so doesn't need to worry about peace, and thousands more housing units are in the pipeline. Almost half a million Israelis now live in illegal settlements, and they are never going to be shifted, yet this is the number one demand of the Palestinians. There is one factor that interests Israel, and that is that they keep getting unconditional military aid from the US, and that comes with an absolute cast-iron guarantee.