I've stated this before on other threads, but here's my solution to The MiddleEast:
Israel v. Palestine
* Make Jerusulem an international city (similar to how Washington DC is here in America).
* Move the United Nations to Jerusulem.
* Disband the Jewish settlements in the West Bank.
* Where conflicts are greatest along the West Bank area, build a United Nations School of Diplomacy, on a university level, with Jewish and Arab scholarships and create massive employment opportunities for Palestinians.
* In the Golan Heights create a United Nations Peacekeeping Training Facility where peacekeepers are trained to deal with conflicts in other nations.
Sunni v. Shite v. Kurds v. Iran, etc.
* Divide current Iraq into two countries:
a) Create a northern nation, one comprised of Sunnis, Shites and Kurds, including the city of Baghdad and north of Baghdad and west of Baghdad leading to a tiny southern sliver of access to the Persian Gulf;
b) Create a southern Shite nation, comprised primarily of Shites. South of Bagdad create a boundary, including the Shia holy cities along the Tigris and Euphrates -- an area shaped a bit like South Carolina -- down to west of Umm Qasr: This will become a Shite nation -- the US could, improving its own diplomacy in the process, work with Iran to help create this new country. Since Shites currently are 60 percent of Iraq's population probably about two-thirds of them would become citizens of the new Shite nation. This would leave the remaining Shites in the northern nation in comparable numbers to the Sunnis and Kurds -- together, these three factions could then compete in a democracy for the best ideas.
* Forgive all prior Iraqi debt to other nations.
* Create a two-nation oil board, a company to oversee all oil profits, from present day geographical Iraq, and divide those profits equally between both two nations.
* Make Iraqi rivers international waterways.
* Encourage unemployed Palestinians to travel to either of the two nations to help rebuild both countries into quality nations.
NOTE: Should all of the above happen, then Israel would agree to dismantle its nuclear power capability.
Meanwhile, PartyTime will just hang out over there, walk on water, play his guitar, sing songs and make sure all is well--lol! |
