An Israeli and Palestinian Parliamentary Confederation

  Rationale   Fresh ideas are needed to find a just and fair peace in the conflict between Israelis and Palestinians.   The concept described here is to re-energize and harness democratic processes to create an ongoing dialogue to find solutions to divide the land fairly between the two societies.   While justice and restitution are important components of a sustained peace, this proposal starts with an acceptance of current ground realities and moves forward from there, without being bound by the past, bogged down in blame and counter blame.   The paradigm is that the land be shared along the current demographic realities, with Israel and Palestine co-existing with as high a degree of autonomy as possible, but with joint structures where necessary or mutually beneficial.   How that land be shared will be negotiated by the elected representatives of the two peoples, these representatives elected on an equal one person one vote basis.   Demo...

A One State Solution: The Joint Territories of Israel-Palestine A model of governance that would promote bipartisan cooperation and self-determination   Rationale While the official position of Israel, Palestine and the international community is that a two state solution is the best way to resolve the conflict, history shows it has either been unachievable or the parties are unwilling to find mutually acceptable ways to achieve it.   The alternative is a one state, usually federal, solution that has won little support so far, as the Jewish community fears being outnumbered or a dilution of the Jewish nature of their territory, and the Palestinian community do not want to surrender their long battle for nationhood.   Extremists on both sides also promote a one state takeover of all the land, with expulsion of the other community. This paper proposes an approach to the one state solution that preserves the autonomy of the two main communities a...