A suggestion for a solution to the Palestinian issue

Establishing a viable Palestinian state would seem to be at least technically feasible. It is, of course, fairly apparent that doing so would be rather challenging, particularly politically, of course, and given the complexity of the political process aspect of the issue, for now it seems best to focus mostly on what it would take to create the foundations of a viable Palestinian state rather than on how exactly to make it happen politically, and it would also seem reasonable to avoid going deep into the details concerning the solution itself in this post.

The history of the region is obviously fairly complex, and as such it would seem sensible to also not discuss it any more than absolutely necessary in this context in order to avoid going off the main topic.

The territory of the new Palestinian state should be contiguous. The region in question should be divided roughly into two halves, and it seems like an at least somewhat sensible compromise to make the border between them a reasonable line of some kind running from the Mediterranean to the Dead Sea north of Ashdod and Kiryat Gat and south of Jerusalem, all things considered, with the southern half naturally becoming the territory of the new Palestinian state.
The Palestinian state should, of course, also have a robust constitution, and the fledgling state should naturally be closely supervised and guided, preferably by a European body of some kind.
The state should naturally also have a reasonable security policy and a sound economic system with a clear focus on positive liberty. Creating economic opportunities for the Palestinians is, of course, critically important from a security point of view too, since they must have a fairly positive outlook in order for the extremism among them to slowly fade away.
Establishing an education system capable of providing high-quality education is obviously a priority as well.
The tax system should, of course, be fairly simple and relatively easily enforceable, and the euro could perhaps be used as an interim currency.
There naturally should also be a decent social security system without incentive traps, and healthcare charges should be fairly small.

Energy security is, of course, very important as well, and it seems that a combination of at least solar power, pumped storage, and hydrogen storage (naturally in tandem with fuel cells) seems like a feasible basis for a fairly dependable electricity sector. Local related manufacturing should naturally be fostered and the domestic energy market should become competitive as soon as possible in order to drive electricity costs down fairly quickly.
An ample supply of electricity would, of course, also allow for a dependable supply of desalinated water, which would naturally also help with food security.

The new Palestinian state should naturally receive a substantial amount of aid in order to help set it up, but the proportion of financial aid of all of the aid should be as small as possible in order to avoid fostering corruption and long-term financial dependence as well as reasonably possible, and the vast majority of the aid should thus be provided mostly as goods and services, with a particular focus on quality education, of course.
The state should also be given military assistance by an at least mostly European force. Training police and military personnel should naturally be a high priority too.
Establishing full sovereignty over all of the de jure territory of the new state should be left to be the responsibility of the new local armed forces, and the military assistance should become peacekeeping as soon as reasonably possible.

This kind of a solution would obviously have a very significant economic impact on the Jews of the region, but this would seem like a justifiable compromise, as it seems rather reasonable to see the Jews as owing the Palestinians a lot.
The Jewish state could perhaps use its power of expropriation to purchase land and buildings within the territory to be handed over to the Palestinians, and it could then pass the property to an international holding body overseen by the states supervising the new Palestinian state, and if this is done, the property should then be passed to Palestinian ownership as soon as reasonably possible: avoiding corruption in the process as much as possible is obviously very important.
The Jews’ legitimate security concerns regarding all of this should, of course, be acknowledged as such, but it seems obvious that an arrangement like this would also make some security work considerably simpler for them. Both the new Palestinian state and the Jewish state should naturally have to formally recognize each other as legitimate and renounce all claims to each others’ territory for good in a treaty. The treaty should, of course, also specify the total amount of reparations to be paid by the Jews and make it clear that the Jews do not owe Palestinians any per se reparations in excess of what is specified in the treaty.

Economic and social development in Palestine and increased trade between Jews and Palestinians should help considerably in maintaining and reinforcing peace between the two peoples, and it seems plausible that the vast majorities of the peoples of both countries might come to fully accept the new status quo in a generation or two and that the arrangement would prove to be mutually beneficial for them in the long term.

A conspicuously dark cloud and the long-term issues it created

This is obviously a relatively sombre topic to start with, but a blog has to start with something, and this might as well be it, considering that it would appear to be best if I wrote about the matters mentioned in this entry and also preferably sooner than later:
It seems to me that a great number of people have found and still find it fairly difficult to fully cope with the idea of democide, especially of the industrialized kind, and the democides carried out by Nazi Germany and its collaborators would appear to be the most problematic in this way.

It can be especially overwhelming to think about such events if one does not truly understand what kinds of misguided ideas led to them, and I don’t think it is very shameful to admit it if one doesn’t: admission of ignorance and confusion is the first step toward true comprehension, and the inability to do so is a far greater shame than incomprehension in itself can ever be, obviously especially if such a crippling personality defect is refractory.

It is fairly typical of me and perhaps even most people to try to find at least thin silver linings even to the darkest clouds as a way to cope or attempt to cope; I think the only effects of the atrocities committed by the Nazi regime and its collaborators I could ever describe as positive were the instillation of an increased awareness of the dangers of incomprehension, disinformation, collective narcissism, misdirected hatred, and totalitarianism in at least most of the groups targeted by the National Socialist German Workers’ Party, a very large number of Europeans, and people of European heritage in particular plus as a more indirect effect the especially significant one that fortunately still benefits the group the destruction of which the Nazi regime prioritized, i.e. the Jewish people, of course, and which obviously was the refoundation of their own sovereign state, an incredibly exceptionally bittersweet realization of the hopes and dreams of many generations of Jews, and said state is clearly a fairly durable wellspring of hope for them, at least for the time being.

I hope that we can one day help all of the peoples in the West Asian region by strictly and decisively, but always clearly rationally and justly enforcing a real and lasting peace by whatever means necessary and thus hopefully catalyze the start of a new, more enlightened era of thriving civilization(s) in the region, the peoples of which we Europeans are actually fairly closely related to.
I am reasonably confident that given a relatively high level of security, durable stability, universal proper education, and a sufficient amount of at the very least relatively decent economic opportunities, the peoples of the region just might in time go through their own renaissance periods of various kinds and lengths and come to understand that it is in our mutual interest to forge lasting partnerships, especially considering the scope and difficulty of the challenges facing us all in the foreseeable future.

The most critical prerequisite for the kind of peace described above and its desired consequences would seem to be an enduring just settlement of the Palestinian issue, for which I think I have devised a solution that might actually work as intended if the terms of the treaty are effectively and dispassionately, i.e. very professionally enforced.

I will present my detailed suggestions later this year.