The idea of the Israeli-Palestinian federal solution

Two connected yet autonomous states.

The federation will be formed by a shared parliament, government, court and army.

The Jewish settlers will be able to stay in their homes.

There will be a symmetry between the right of return of both Jewish and Palestinians.

Where is the need for a political solution in the middle east?

Israel becomes more fragile as its opponents obtain more power to target Israeli citizens.

Israel technological edge gradually thins out as many qualified Israelis can move easily to western countries.

The above factors destabilizes Israel and makes the whole region flammable.

A vicious circle is formed

More relative power to opponents of Israel

More qualified Israeli can and choose to move out

Known suggested solutions to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict

Two separate states for the two peoples with fair exchange of land or with full Israeli withdrawal to the 67 line.

One country for the two nations.

Continuing with current affairs without striving for a permanent settlement.

The Lieberman solution.

What is the problem with fair exchange of landA fair solution – 100 percent land

compensation for Palestinian settlement.

If Israel will aid the new Palestinian state there may be a chance but…

Drawbacks – the two states will not be truly connected, Palestinian state will be without territorial continuousness, the right of return issue is not resolved.

Two connected yet autonomous states

Territorial continuousness from the Mediterranean sea to the Jordan river.

Israel will be connected to the Arab world yet will not assimilate into it.

Israel will preserve its Jewish nature. There will be a real possibility to reduce the demographic struggle.

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Israel will be able to function as a positive point of contact between the Arab and the Western worlds.

The problem of population growth could be managed federally by limiting the number of children each family could have ( stop encouraging large families via financial incentives and issuing sanctions against families that will ignore this policy).

Shared Parliament, Government, Court and Army .

Citizen rights for the Palestinian.

The federation will control the territory from the Mediterranean sea to the Jordan river.

Citizens will be secured from internal threats ( Palestinian terror and Israeli military brutality).

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Decreased threats on Israel from external powers like Iran – it will be harder to claim that Israel is a racist state and that it is an implanted European entity in the Middle-East.

Palestinian will also lose from instability ( Sharing power, better economic condition) so they are less likely to cooperate with external hostile powers.

Non evacuation of settlersBetter security for everyone ( Israel is more safe

from short range missiles thus every one is safer…).

Past wrong doings will not be corrected with new ones ( Arabs fled or were forced out from their homes during the 48 war).

A genuine chance for integration of Israel in the Middle-East.

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The cost of evacuating all the settlers will be staggering. There are 330 thousands Jews living in the Palestinian territories.

It is totally unclear whether western countries will choose to finance such expensive evacuation ( tens or even hundreds billions dollars) given the Gaza precedent .

Symmetry between the right of return of Jews and Palestinians

A real long term solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.

Solving ( partially ) the problem of population explosion by closing to a certain extent the gates for new immigrants.

Addressing morally to historical injustices caused to both sides.

Drawbacks of the federal solution

Hard to implement. Takes time, patience and effort.

Needs an approval of the majority of both Israelis and Palestinians.

Needs acceptance and encouragement from the international community.

ConclusionsThe federal solution is irrelevant for

immediate implementation.

However it is possible to start interest all the parties that will eventually be involved with it :

The Israeli public.The international community.The Palestinian public.