Okay. I feel there is no way to "fix" the Israeli/Palestinian issue with any of the old ideas including the two state idea (which is really more of a one state idea anyway with the economic union between both halves in the plan). So here is my solution.

One state. The nation of Palestine with its capital in Jerusalem. One nation made up of both Jews, and christian and muslim Palestinians. Jerusalem is made an international city regonizing its importance to all three faiths while still of course remaining under the legal control of the new nation. The palestinians outside the borders are allowed the right of return and the Jewish poplulation is accepted and recognized by all other miiddle east nations and the Palastinian people themselves. In one swoop you would create the most powerful nation in the region and assure the borders of it.

Would it be easy. No. Would the strife disappear overnite between the Jews and Palestinians. No. I would guess a good 25 years or so would be needed to sort feelings out but the time would be there because the new country would have (and indeed has now) no real threat to its existance outside its own borders. Its only within that the problems arise. This is do-able. But the Jewish people and their allies, as well as the Palestinians and theirs, need to stop looking at the land as anything other than what it is. Land. Ancestral to both of the peoples living there. The only weakness and threat Israel has today is from within. And it comes from atempting to refuse to accept the simple facts facing it.

The alternative is a horrific future for both peoples. Palestinian population is growing faster within Israel itself then that of the Jewish population. In fact it is not incorrect to state that as a percentage of the population of Israel Palestinians will in the very near future begin to be able to affect the voting patterns within Israel and thus the government and its policies. These will be Isareli Palestinians with full citizenship. Then what? The Palestininas create their own political parties within Israel to push their ideas? The Jewish population moves to restrict Israeli Palestinians voting rights? The future is not that far and that is what is coming if everyone keeps trying to pretend that the area exists in a sort of carbon freeze.

And please ignore Iran. Its a useless country similar to North Korea and poses no real threat to any capable nationstate, including Israel. Iran is ticking away on borrowed time and the time is almost up, rather like we are seeing in North korea. And if they really wanted to 'kill all the jews'  they could esily start with those Jewish people still living inside Iran. Its hot air from a corrupt and crumbling nation. On its borders Israel has been completely secure from any sort of actual attack ever since the treaty with Egypt. Again the only threat they face is from within and their own attempts at handling those threats.

So. Tear me a new one! heh.