I’ve got a quick and easy solution for solving the Israel/Palestine debate. Lets take everyone who has publicly declared one “side” of the issue as at fault, and kick them out of their homes. Every single one… We can then shoe-horn them into Israel/Palestine, and give everyone currently occupying that contentious strip of land their pick of the newly vacated homes. Honestly, I can’t see a problem with this solution…
By my estimates at least half of the Arab world would be depopulated… all those Palestinians who profess piety I’m sure would leap at the opportunity to move into the spacious (and ARAB free) palaces of Saudi Arabia; they’d lose Jerusalem but gain Mecca, seems like trading up to me. The Jews and evangelical (read “mentally unstable”) Christians could integrate into the depopulated cultural centres of their respective faiths and find the infrastructure for their beliefs already built, without the fear of terrorism or death. Lastly, about 1-2 billion idiotic demagogues would have to live in a richly deserved Gideon-esque nightmare.
Anyone who can claim that one group or another is “at fault” in the Israel/Palestine debate deserves whatever sort of hell we can create for them. Trying to deconstruct 3000 years of political and religious strife by villainizing one side is about as productive as trying to perform brain surgery with a Howitzer.
The truth of the matter is that Israel/Palestine is a political conflict that has become incredibly entangled with religion. Always has been and always will be. Just try telling that to everyone who has picked a “team” to “root for.” Why is it that we are so eager to treat it like a religious conflict with political implications? In religious debates “specific morality” is the spectrum by which we evaluate developments and arrive at conclusions, and I can’t see any scenario where that process results in real peace.
Say what you will about political debates, but the criteria for a solution is simply achieving the best possible outcome for the largest number of people involved; and the mechanism is usually compromise. Seems like a more promising avenue to me…
So lets start helping our “friends” pack; there’s a lot of moving to be done.
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