I realize this is not necessarily a valid question as the people are involved are likely the ones who can actually solve it, but I’m sure you have ideas and suggestions nontheless.
I would increase the landmass on Earth such that the Earth itself was only 50% ocean. I would do so in a grand display of power utilizing some sort of ancient and supreme Titan, one that brings into undeniable question the foundation of all world religions and even evolution itself. Now having shown that I possess the power of a god. I would descend upon Israel and the surrounding lands and demand all of them migrate to one of the many new landmasses, so that I may reign in my new palace from a place of former conflict, symbolically showing that increasing the amount of landmass in the world helps end conflicts. Should any people resist, I shall simply displace them forcefully with a shower of Precipice Blades. The water displaced for the new land masses would be evaporated into the atmosphere, leaving behind a large amount of salt and eventually precipitating back down as fresh water. While in the atmosphere a large amount of the Earth would be covered in dense clouds cooling it and causing an Ice Age that staves off Global Warming, but creating harsh temporary conditions that the Israelites and Palestinians must learn to live and overcome together as they worship their new god… Me. Eventually power will corrupt me and I will grow tyrannical. Then the either binary son or daughter of an Israeli-Palestinian couple will stand up to me, capturing other beings of power to fight me in a grand battle, at the age of 10 uears old.
I’ll take a stab at it. Without trying to wish away things that can’t be wished for.
Transition the administration of the contested area (mandatory Palestine basically) over to a secular representative government. With peacekeeping provided by the UN. The secular government should be completely separate from any religion, but have the right to religion as part of the Constitution.
Encourage massive economic integration between the different ethnic populations. There will be civil turmoil for quite a while, but we’re winning slowly, demonstrating the people the future is better together. It’ll probably take two or three generations until things settle down. So we’re looking at an occupying force for 40 to 60 years.
To add legitimacy to this government, they should have a truth and reconciliation panel covering and forgiving all of the crimes of the past, they should objectively, and harshly come down on any land crimes, hate crimes, religious persecution, religious exclusion, that happens inside the country.
Give the Arabs back their land. Give Jews land somewhere in Europe or the U.S. since we’re all so supportive of them.
What happens when a large proportion of the Jewish people currently in Israel refuse to leave?
i vote florida. lets declare florida new Israel. keep all those nukes we paid for close to home.
We’ve tried colonization before and realized it was wrong. Maybe a good start would be tostop Israel from colonizing the territories surrounding it, and tie financial aid to this condition?
At this point, an imposed solution is not possible given our political realities.
What probably should have happened is the replacement of the colonial government with a UN mandate.
There would have likely been a fight. It would have involved the UN in an actual war. In the peace agreement, a constitution would have to have been introduced that created a democratic government in Palestine that guaranteed representation for both the Jewish and Arab populations with an allocated number of seats for each and a rotating executive. I’m obviously not going to write a constitution from scratch as a lemmy post but the major features would have been an occupation by an international military force (we’re assuming a democratic UN with actual military power rather than what we ended up with), and a legally mandated power sharing agreement, plus statutory enforcement of something like the universal declaration of human rights. The country would not be allowed an independent military, but would instead have its territorial integrity secured by the UN, which would be legally obligated to defend it with any necessary level of force, including the full commitment of the major powers.
Hypothetically, the US could commit itself to secure the territorial integrity of the West Bank and Gaza, demand the withdrawal from Israeli settlements in Palestinian territories, and start funneling a crapload of aid for the construction of civil infrastructure and industrial development. It would involve very strong diplomacy and possibly military deployment and engagement.
I think what’s more realistically going to happen is about 2k Israeli deaths, and 20k or more Palestinian deaths from direct and indirect causes. I also suspect that Hamas will cease to exist as a viable political entity and that at least part of Gaza will be occupied by Israeli forces, which will see persistent levels of resistance despite what I expect will be lockdown conditions.
You can’t solve centuries of racism and hate when it’s deeply religious.
That said, assuming whatever I was happens, I’d close the borders and let it figure itself out. They’ll sort it or our figure out how to survive without imports or exports.
Buddy, that’s going to lead to genocide… I say as a genocide is currently taking place.
I do not believe there is an ethical or practical way to resolve the conflict as the political forces on either side want nothing but the complete removal of the other side from the land they see as theirs and theirs alone.
“One cuts, the other chooses.” Just like kids and sharing birthday cake.
The only way to solve the problem without any of the participants complaining about it is to make the world’s largest pane of glass.
Everyone in the region seems happier fighting than making peace, so it would be unethical to make them quit.
