Simple proposal for Middle East conflict. Agree/Disagree?

Question

- Israel should recognize the "country" of Palestine.
- Palestine and Arab countries should recognize Israel.
- Arabs should stop suicide bombing and militancy.
- Israel should withdraw from Gaza and West-Bank completely.
- Arabs and Jews should sign a no-war-no-attack pact in the UN

Arabs and Jews should realize that nothing is going to come out of violence. It can go forever.

Do you want to children and grandchildren and great-grandchildren to keep fighting?

Answer 1

The world you describe does not exist.
-Palestine is in to condition for state-hood. You might as well tell the people in skid-row in LA that they are a country of their own. It will solve nothing if you can't give these people back their dignity as well.
-Recognition of Israel means nothing, if none of the locals are willing to be its friend. The governments may see the benefit, but the people would cry bloody murder and there'd be more insurrection and chaos in the Arab world then there already is.
-The result of what I wrote above would be exactly the opportunity the Islamists are looking for to take power (they could probably even do so democratically). That would mean more suicide bombings, not less. Remember that the countries of governments in Arab countries that recognize Israel, Jordan and Egypt, are the most targeted by suicide bombers. (there's also Saudi Arabia, but the royal family are despotic allies of America)
-Israel cannot withdraw from the territories because it's already invested far too much in settling land there. Any withdrawal would be too little for the Palestinians and too much for the orthodox Jews.
-We've seen the respect peaces of paper get before. Oslo, which many say killed the 2-state solution, saw Israel and Palestine working together -- joining security forces and allowing the Israeli-Palestinian economies to benefit from greater cooperation. It was very bad for the cause of Palestine, but generally alright for all the people involved.
My money is on a form of federalism (but for the love of God, call it something else) that lets the two cooperate more closely, share Jerusalem and feel a sense of brotherhood

Answer 2

None of what you suggest addresses the real problem, which is the root cause of the current violence. Until the real problem is brought out and faced squarely there will continue to be violence and hatred.

The real cause of the current violence in the Middle East over the past few days is NOT Hezbollah as George Bush keeps stupidly saying. Bush is giving a biased and self-serving pronouncement that carries not a grain of truth.The REAL cause is the Balfour Declaration of 1917..."His Majesty's Government view with favour the establishment in Palestine of a national home for the Jewish people..." Thus began the string of events that led to the influx of great numbers of Russian and European jews into Palestine, and from this came the roots of the current crisis. THIS is the real cause of today's violence, not Hezbollah. Hezbollah is a manifestion of the cause, but not the cause itself. Short-sighted politicians twist or omit history to serve their purposes, and this is what Bush has done. The president of Iran was thinking of the cause when he stated that Israel must be destroyed. It may very well be that Iran will the the tipping point in the 70-year conflict that will settle once and for all the problem of atrocities committed by the jews against the Palestinian people.

The reason the US went to war in Iraq was not because of supposed weapons of mass destruction; that was but a political excuse. The real reason was to remove Saddam Hussein as a potential threat to Israel. To have said that the US was going to war in Iraq in order to provide for Israeli security would NOT have gone over well at home, so Bush twisted it to say that Saddam Hussein was a threat to the security of the United States (read instead "Israel"). Now that threat has shifted to Iran, and unless George Bush can muster support for eliminating this new threat to Israel, Iran might be able to provide the momentum to solve the Middle East problem once and for all.

Answer 3

I think it's a great idea you have there, but I think what it's come to is a perpetual grudge/hate match, that will likely end in the destruction of one or the other parties. They're going to have to work together to resolve their differences, or face the inevitability of perpetual war against each other....or mutual destruction...

Answer 4

It will never happen, they have been fighting each other for thousands of years, its a religious thing. Basically they are fighting over their personal moral beliefs. They both are passionate about what they are fighting over, thus the war will continue on and on.

Answer 5

In the perfect world it should be this easy. But, afraid it's not. I'd like to see this end soon too.

Answer 6

Excellent! Where will you have your first meeting, and whom will you invite?