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Originally Posted by elias-aj  If you oppose the two state solution, what are you supporting then ? A non-jewish and secular state where all citizens are equal and have the same rights and duties ? A state where an Arab Jew or an Arab Muslim or an Arab Christian can be President or Prime Minister ? If it is what you're supporting, good then. Because this is what I think the best solution (two state solution seems to me not really a viable solution).
If not, I don't understand how you're supporting a peace settlement. |
I don't claim to be an oracle, and my suggestion is still work in progress. to sum up the line of thought, it is a confederacy of several groups, each with rights to manage their own domain of control. a member of an ethnic group living in any of the member states/areas, can apply to lead his/her own domain of control. ofcourse, this needs more details.
in lebanon, no sunni or shiite can become the president, but it is nonetheless a democracy. it's just not a successful one, and one has to make sure that the woes that befell the lebanese confessionalism will not happen to the israeli/palestinian project, because the results will be disasterous to everybody around. granted, some of those reasons are external to the lebanese themselves, but nonetheless troubling when one wants to try this again.
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Originally Posted by elias-aj PS : Don't bother with the various possible ideologies because it's just speculating for the sake of speculating. Replace the current jewish state with a secular state. Implement a good and fair socio-economic policy. You'll see then that with peace, we'll be able to build something like the E.U. in the middle-east. |
i'm afraid not. I mean, it's good to dream, but a country needs something that bonds its people together. the mere existence of people in the same territorial area is hardly enough, in particular considering scores of years of hatred. compare with the balkans and the lebanese civil war.