Israeli-Palestinian Conflict

Siddhartha J.L.S. · Congressional Page Joined: 16 Jun 2008 Posts: 1

Concerning the Israeli Palestinian Conflict: Peace, by definition, can be induced only through acts contradicting violence. Thus the only way this fight can end, bringing peace to the land, is for the combatants to explicitly stop fighting. However, it is very hard to get each side to stop fighting through coercion, so we must make them with force. We can't wait for the Israelis to stop overrunning Palestinian land and for Palestinians to stop terrorizing the Israeli public, we must make them stop, here and now, so that they realize, without a choice, it is for their own good.

Let me give you a brief introduction. We must use military force to render the Israelis and Palestinians unable to act freely by their own governments until they agree to use our plan to give each and every Palestinian or Israeli citizen equal rights and resources under a single, internationally counseled, government. We must make it completely equal regardless of who originated from the land. We must occupy Israel and Palestine and act as peace keepers yet oppressors until both sides agree to unite in a one state solution under which: Palestinians who where displaced as well as Israeli invaders share equal resources regardless of a Palestinian 'right to return' or Zionist views, settlements built by the Israelis be assigned to either Jews or Palestinians, correlating with location, and Jerusalem be split into two sections, corresponding to the current populations of Jews and Palestinians in Jerusalem.

When we consider the primary concern of peace, we must acknowledge that there will be a fight whenever things become unfair. We must base our plan on a one state solution since the populous in the Israeli/Palestinian area must be generalized so that we cannot, in any way, allow for unfairness in availability of resources. If the area becomes two states during our plan, then it would be too easy for discrepancies to form. Naturally we will try to alter our plans to accommodate each individual state based on current laws or policies, but soon one of the two states, likely the Israeli state, would take advantage of the system and force themselves, through politics, to a higher living standard than the other state. The only way we can ensure equality is by giving each citizen a uniform policy, under one nation.

As for the settlements, they won't be much of a controversy when the entire area is united under one state. In order to give Israelis and Palestinians equal economic opportunities some people must be relocated to make room for others or to achieve a greater economic position. These settlements will naturally provide as a location for both Israelis and Palestinians wherever it is fit in order to balance the national economy.

Concerning a Palestinian right to return, it is simply irrelevant to peace. It doesn't deal with vital resources. Many emotional connections the Palestinians had with the land will be forgotten within generations and the financial loss could be easily reimbursed by the newfound benefits resulting from this plan.

Concerning Zionism, it too, is trivial when viewed in perspective to the grand scale. Jews where specifically targeted for harassment in countries where they where immigrants to begin with, but this idea of origin is the exact state of mind that we would try to smother. By the time everybody lives comfortably and fairly in the area, it will feel as if it had been that way forever. Jews have always been welcome in the Middle-East, and they definitely don't need their own state in the place of their origin to live happily and safely.

Jerusalem is the only true emotional barrier preventing a one state solution from being successful and therefor it must be divided evenly. Unlike Zionism or a right to return, which both can be forgotten, religion plays a large part in both the lives of Israelis and Palestinians and always will. In our world, religion is the only thing which cannot be forgotten because it is the only thing many people feel completely sure about. Under a typical one-state solution Jerusalem would become integrated, but for there to be peace there must be a smooth transition that eases the emotions of the people or else there will be unwanted hostilities in the city. To accommodate these natural human instincts, Jerusalem will be officially divided into sections appeasing both the Israelis and Palestinians living there. After years and years of this conflict, the Jews and the Palestinians are not eager to mix so hastily.

This can not be an easy task. It will require human resources and military equipment beyond our ability to comprehend as well as years of debating internationally. However, this plan could not consume so much of our effort and spending to dwarf the amount of human resources than we have already spent in the world on this conflict within the last century. We have already been working hard enough, but only to do the wrong things. We must ignore the right and the wrong and embrace the promise of peace. The world needs to wake up and smell the scent of chaos before it is too late. We cannot linger on the past and argue over stupid facts concerning the right to live in certain areas of the land. The fact of the matter is: there is a major international conflict that needs stopping and to implement a single nation, with equality for all, is the utmost effective, and probably the only, way to stop it so we must direct our attention to unite the people on this planet into one living species and to live together in harmony.

phil · Mayor Joined: 09 Nov 2005 Posts: 174 Location: Seattle

I agree with everything you just said, but the bottom line is hatred. How can you fight that?