- Oct 30, 2004
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I have more or less concluded that the only solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict is that these people have to be separated from one another. Either the Israelis need to be moved somewhere or the Palestinians need to be moved.
I kind of like the idea of finding a sparsely populated place in the U.S. or Canada for the Israelis. Perhaps we could clear out Michigan's Upper Peninsula and give it to the Israelis? We'd probably benefit by gaining a couple million people who tend to have higher than average Ashkenazi IQs. However, I don't see it happening, at least not for the Upper Peninsula. (It's a little smaller than Israel's landmass but doesn't have any worthless desert.) Would settling them in an area of Canada that has arable land be feasible? What if we cleared out a sparsely populated state such as Nebraska, one of the Dakotas, or Wyoming for the industrious Israelis?
However, the U.S. is pretty much in control of a country in the Middle East, one that might have room for a couple millions people--Afghanistan. What if all of the Palestinians were resettled in Afghanistan? (I'm sure that it wouldn't take more than 1 week before the Afghans and the Palestinians started fighting, but that's beside the point; they're all good Muslims who follow the religion of peace so they should be able to find a way to get along.) Whatever cost the U.S. and Israel and the rest of the world would have to bear to resettle them would probably be cheaper than the long-term cost of dealing with the current conflict.
But what about the holiest of holies, Jerusalem! Maybe it could be evacuated and bombed to smithereens so that there was no longer any reason to squabble over it? (Bombing Jerusalem would probably result in a Jihad against us.)
Maybe a better idea would be for Jerusalem and the area around it to be taken over by a secular third party such as the U.S. or the EU and then turned into a non-denominational city-state.
I kind of like the idea of finding a sparsely populated place in the U.S. or Canada for the Israelis. Perhaps we could clear out Michigan's Upper Peninsula and give it to the Israelis? We'd probably benefit by gaining a couple million people who tend to have higher than average Ashkenazi IQs. However, I don't see it happening, at least not for the Upper Peninsula. (It's a little smaller than Israel's landmass but doesn't have any worthless desert.) Would settling them in an area of Canada that has arable land be feasible? What if we cleared out a sparsely populated state such as Nebraska, one of the Dakotas, or Wyoming for the industrious Israelis?
However, the U.S. is pretty much in control of a country in the Middle East, one that might have room for a couple millions people--Afghanistan. What if all of the Palestinians were resettled in Afghanistan? (I'm sure that it wouldn't take more than 1 week before the Afghans and the Palestinians started fighting, but that's beside the point; they're all good Muslims who follow the religion of peace so they should be able to find a way to get along.) Whatever cost the U.S. and Israel and the rest of the world would have to bear to resettle them would probably be cheaper than the long-term cost of dealing with the current conflict.
But what about the holiest of holies, Jerusalem! Maybe it could be evacuated and bombed to smithereens so that there was no longer any reason to squabble over it? (Bombing Jerusalem would probably result in a Jihad against us.)
Maybe a better idea would be for Jerusalem and the area around it to be taken over by a secular third party such as the U.S. or the EU and then turned into a non-denominational city-state.
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