Here is a diversion for you; why can't you accept a one state solution? The out is a win-win for both the Israelis and the Palestinians.
Why can't the Palestinians settle for a Palestinian State, and at some future date when both sides feel comfortable enough, form a Confederation or even a Federation?
There's NOTHING preventing the Palestinian Arabs from agreeing to such an arrangement, where each retain political and economic autonomy, but work together to further the economic development of the entire region of Palestine?
Face it.. Israel would like to have more labor resources, the Palestinians need jobs and capital, and both sides need to develop water, agricultural, and fossil fuel resources.
That's the "win-win". Israel gets to remain a "Jewish" state, while permitting Arabs to live there, and Arabs get their "Palestinian" state, while Jewish settlers get to live legally in the West Bank.
Nothing different than if I live in one state here in the US, but work in a different one. I vote in my home state, but get my income working in another. People in the NY-DC corridor do it all the time.
The only thing preventing it are the extremists on BOTH SIDES. Why not deflate their "balloon" and see moderates on each side working together to MUTUAL BENEFIT?
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