The one-state solution

Well, if this doesn't beat it all -- former poster boy for terrorism, Muammar Qaddafi -- has written an opinion piece in the New York Times, proposing a solution to the Israeli-Palestinian hatred. I've thought about this one before two, but wouldn't have been able to put the case forward as simply as Qaddafi does. Many believe in a two state solution -- if only Israel and Palestine would see reason. But they won't. And even if they do, the regional players would do their best to fuck it up. Qaddafi rips apart conventional wisdom of pulling the two warring tribes apart, and instead, proposes an interesting idea. Force them together.

It's not such a far fetched idea, as Qaddafi points out.

Assimilation is already a fact of life in Israel. There are more than one million Muslim Arabs in Israel; they possess Israeli nationality and take part in political life with the Jews, forming political parties. On the other side, there are Israeli settlements in the West Bank. Israeli factories depend on Palestinian labor, and goods and services are exchanged. This successful assimilation can be a model for Isratine.

Of course, for either side to concede to this compromise would mean those support conflict would lose -- and neither side is going to want to be seen as a loser. So the chances of this happening -- of peace happening -- is simply impossible.