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To: Elroy who wrote (240928)	7/11/2005 11:54:15 AM
From: Elroy	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 1572313

Lets see. Here's some solutions to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Solution 1 - Make Israel, the West Bank and the Gaza Strip one single country (and lets call it Palestine), and grant citizenship to every person in the geographic region. There would have to be some cumbersome process to determine which Palestinian refugees living in, say, Jordan, would be granted citizenship in the new country, but it would be feasible. You then have some strict laws about the government not interfering in religion (similar to what we have in the US), and in the constitution various religious and personal freedoms are granted. It's a one man, one vote democracy, and off you go. The Golan Heights get returned to Syria as soon as the Syrians recognize the new country. Solution 2 - Give Israel all of the West Bank, and give the Palestinians all of Jerusalem and Gaza. Put a barrier similar to what the Israelis are currently building between these two regions. They both have sea access. There would have to be a MASSIVE relocation of all the Palestinian Arabs from their West Bank villages to the Gaza area, but the Palestinians get to keep their sacred city that they've been living in for the past thousand years or so. The Jewish people get a "homeland", but they don't get the most contested religious area (Jerusalem). Fundamentalist Israelis won't accept giving up Jerusalem, but they can be dealt with as harshly as the current Israeli government deals with the violent Palestinians. In fact, this solution would probably have to be forced on Israel in the same way that the current situation in Iraq was forced in Iraqis. Either of these seem to me to be quite difficult to implement, but are a LONG TERM recipe for solving a problem that has gone on for ~60 years.