Reply #17: 50 - 50 split of the 26,990sq km of land

[nicoll]

The whole purpose of the Land partitioning of the 26,990sq km of land was to create two viable states (Israel and Palestine). That still has to be achieved today for there to be any chance of peace in the Middle East. Israel is no victim in this. The objectives of the Jewish people was to colonize has much of Palestinian land has possible and to create the state of Israel in the Middle East what ever the cost. Yes the Palestinians have committed terrorist acts against Israel and until recently I was in full support of Israel. One thing changed all of that and that was finding out the details of the Deir Yassin massacre of Palestinians by Jewish soldiers on April the 9th 1948. Men, women and children were taken out and lined up against a wall and shot from Palestinian villages inside the section partitioned for a Palestinian state. The whole purpose of this was to create a mass panic in other Palestinian villages and get them to flee in terror - it worked. This was in my opinion a war crime and came before global terrorism. What has happened to those villages now? well they have probably be bulldozed and absorbed into the state of Israel - well done boys, nice one!! That is why I believe both sides are as bad as each other and an equal sharing of land has to occur.

December 1947

Israel approx 51% of the 26,990sq km partitioned for a Jewish state.

Palestinian land approx 49% of the 26,990sq km partitioned for a Palestinian state.

The problem from this right from the start was that the Palestinian area was divided into three parts only meeting at two points. The land should have been divided 50 - 50 and into two whole sections of land. Even if both sides were not killing each other it would have been hard to create two states from such a partitioning land.

1967
Israel approx 77% of originally partitioned land.

Palestinian land approx 23% of originally partitioned land.

This was partitioned even worse than in 1947. The only winners were Israel. The Palestinian land was divided in two with no chance of free movement between them and therefore any chance of having a viable Palestinian state was greatly inhibited by the partitioning. The mistakes made in 1947 should have been learned and an equal partition of land should have occurred with both half's being whole with no separate parts.

Present day

Israel approx 77% of originally partitioned land.
Plus approx 59% of West bank - 59/100 *5860 = 3457.4sq km of land.
This gives Israel 20,770 + 3457.4 = 24,227.4sq km of land under Israeli control.
Meaning that Israel controls approx 90% of the originaly partitioned land.

Palestinian land is now approx only 10% of the originally partitioned land.

This is just how the numbers add. You can not have a viable Palestinian state mae up of only 10% of the original 26,990sq km of partioned land. It just won't work. I want to see an equal split of the 26,990sq km of land with both sides being whole. What is wrong with that. I am not saying that Israel does not have the right to exist, just that the Palestinians have lived on that part of the Middel East for over a thousand years and so must be entitled to have a state of their own that is viable out of the 26,990sq km of land. Has this seems to be amission imposible I have devised some simple rules for dividing the land up equally between the two. Please add to to them if you can think of any more becasue I am still working on it.

• All international laws in to relation to the rights of individual states have to be followed.

One of the most important of these is the right of free movement of its citizens and trade to move freely within a state. Both states have to be whole with no separate parts.

• Large population movements are allowed as long as realistic time scales are used.

No individual compensation will be awarded to people being displaced by the formation of both new states. Grants will be awarded to both states to accommodate the displacement of people. Neither state has to be Jew or Arab only. The option will be given to either Israeli citizens or Palestinian refugees to remain where they are. In the case of Israeli citizens choosing to remain where they are when the land they live on becomes part of a newly formed Palestinian state then they would have to give up their Israeli citizenship and become Palestinian citizens instead (no joint citizenship allowed). They will be allowed to vote in Palestine, buy property, move freely throughout the country etc. In the case of Palestinian refugees remaining where they are when the land they live on becomes part of a newly formed Jewish state then they would have to become Israeli citizens. They would have the same rights as Jewish Israeli citizens. In both newly formed states all citizens within each state will have equal status. In truth given this option most Israeli citizens and Palestinian refugees finding themselves either in a newly formed Israel or Palestine will probably wish to move to their own country. This would remove a large problem created by displacement. When people realise that there was no stopping the formation of the two new states out of the 26,990sq km of land a large proportion would move of their own free will. The result of this may be two states that are predominantly made up of Jew or Palestinian only, but at least the option would have been given for mixing of the two. Yes there are aprox 1,000,000 Arabs residing in Israel at present, but they are not given full and equal rights within the country and so it is no comparison to equal status of Jew and Palestinian in either of the newly formed Palestine or Israel. The aprox 1,000,000 Arabs residing in Israel and their status has to be addressed as well. With the old part of Jerusalem a complete handover by Israel to the Palestinian authority has to occur. All residents have to vacate that area before hand over giving the Palestinian authority complete control over that section of the city. This might seem harsh that all current residents have to vacate the area before handover, but it is required for there to be any chance of the whole thing working.