re: Really? How about some numbers?
none, Israel offered to work out a compromise to "the right of return" but was turned down.
Ok, none is the actual answer to the question of how many Palestinian refugees have actually been offered citizenship by Israel and turned it down, correct? All you are saying is some form of discussion and negotiation has gone on at various points over the past ~60 years, and the discussions have failed.
all of them or just muslim holy sights 'cause as far as I know no one took possession of the mosque (thanks for the spelling correction) and muslim still pray there. On a flip side they are not happy about jewish holy sight.....
This was part of solution #2 - forget it. It's impossible to discuss 2 solutions simultaneously. Lets stick with solution 1 which was make Israel and the occuppied territories one country, and grant citizenship in that country to the appropriate people, which I would say is basically the present day Israelis and some subset of the stateless Palestinian refugees.
Do you think that is a good solution, or bad solution? I am an non-stakeholding outsider, neither Jewish nor Muslim, living far from the region (a few hours by plane) and knowing virtually no one directly involved. From that perspective (and trying to be objective and bring no historical baggage to the table) that seems a good solution to me. Offer equality to all involved and representative democracy to the citizens in the combined nation, and hope that over the next 60 years peace can replace the current endless cycle of violence.
The key issue will be forcing both sides to accept a multi-ethnic, multi-religious country. For the Jews it will not be a "Jewish" nation, and for the Muslims it will not be "Muslim" nation. It will be a multi-ethnic, multi-religious nation reflective of the population, which has multiplel religions and ethnicities and has been that way for 1000s of years.
This solution of course won't occur in 6 mmonths, it will probably be a 10-30 year implementation, but the possibility for peace exists (I think), whereas in the current situation the possibility for lasting peace is pretty close to zero.
In principle, what do you think? |
