Stranger things have happened. A possible model to bring peace to Isreal/Palestine conflict is the S. African one. It could begin by a process of truth telling (each side acknowledges its "sins" against the other) The next step would be followed, hopefully, by reconciliation. This assumes that the each side concludes this: That to continue to do the same thing again and again is folly to the nth degree.
If such wisdom could take root in the two peoples, then perhaps a single state solution is the route to peace? Arab population increase may frighten the Isreali electoate but perhaps some Lani Guirier method of weighed voting arrangement - multiple vote arrangement, where votes for representatives could be multiple so that the minority could lump its votes together to insure that the "minority" always has significant representation, could dampen fear of the majority rule. I believe that the whites in S. African reached such agreements with the other side to do this, before they releniquished its Apartiheid reins, where the whites were 1/10th the black population. This agreement in S. Africa still holds.
Another point, the current leadership need to change. Bush is right. Arafat and, IMHO, possibly Sharon need to go. We are talking about two different peoples who happen to inhabit much the same "pied de terre". This makes the two state solution to be very problematic. Hence, the 2 state solution is probably dead...Current election results in Isreal seem to confirm this view. Maybe it is time to move beyond the 2 state solution, and begin steps toward reconcilation, a la the South African experiment.
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