- Question
What are the solutions to the Israel Palestine conflict?
What started as intercommunal violence between Israelis and Arabs in the 1920s evolved over the course of the twentieth century into a full-blown civil war and open conflict. After much bloodshed and the dawn of a new century, what would a solution to the Israel-Palestine situation look like? Is peace even a possibility for one of the world's longest-running conflicts?
A one-state solution to the Israel Palestine Conflict
Israelis and Palestinians must be united under a single, binational state. Both Israeli Jews and Palestinian Arabs would enjoy the same legal and civil rights and live under a government in which both religions are represented.
A two-state solution to the Israel Palestine Conflict
There must be two separate, independent states, one Israeli and one Palestinian, each with its own government and full autonomy over its domestic and international affairs.
Israeli-Palestinian confederation solution to the Israel Palestine Conflict
Israel and Palestine would form a mini-EU. Under the terms of the bloc, each state would have its own government but both governments would cooperate on economic, security, environmental and natural resource matters.
Autonomy plus solution to the Israel Palestine Conflict
This position proposes an 'autonomy plus' solution to the Israel-Palestine conflict. It argues that Palestinians could control their own local affairs — governments, schools and services — while remaining within the state of Israel, a middle path between full statehood and the status quo.
There is no solution to the Israel Palestine conflict
This position holds that there is no available solution to the Israel-Palestine conflict. It argues that the parties' irreconcilable objectives, internal Palestinian divisions, the absence of trust, and the lack of Israeli incentive to settle leave the conflict intractable.