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To: SilentZ who wrote (241003)	7/12/2005 5:01:12 AM
From: Elroy	Respond to of 1572405

In response to my solution 1 suggestion of making present day Israel plus all occupied territories (sans Golan Heights) a combined country with equal rights for its citizens regardless of their ethnicity or religion, you wrote: >Solution 1 would be great, except that if you gave the Palestinians a majority in the new government, they would rapidly do two things. 1) Create a corrupted mess out of all functioning governmental institutions. 2) Pass a law to exterminate all Israelis. No one would be "given" a majority in the new government, they have to get elected by the population. Hopefully centrists candidates would do well in elections. And there would no longer be a distinction between Palestinians and Israelis (as Israel no longer exists, there is one unified country called Palestine). Each citizen would be a Palestinian citizen of the state of Palestine - equally. There would of course be an obvious religious split in the population between Muslims, Jewish and Christians. If all citizens were given equal rights in a free democratic country, the desire to (as you say) exterminate one group will likely be reduced and become extremist, fringe idealogy along the lines of the skinheads in Germany and the KKK in the US. As time passes it will become less and less of a serious political force. Remember, this is one of two LONG TERM solutions to the current problem. The civil rights movement in the US in the 1960's didn't cure racism in a month, but it started the US in the right direction, and we're continuing to try to improve race relations today. Often what is required is to have the people that were raised in the failing environment pass away and have their children that were raised in the new environment come of age - in other words it takes generations. My solution to the Israel-Palestinian problem is designed to solve things PERMANENTLY between the fighting groups. Implement it now in 2005, and in 2050 you will have relative harmony in the region. Any other objections?