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The Primal Solution
Shragi Feldman (1.1.1)
The only way the settlements can survive is if all questionable territories are to secede from the political mainland and become a distinct federation within the established state.
In the parliamentary system, unlike the American system, the supported principles are majority ideals rather then full representation.
In the American system there are two basic tracts, however none of them are based on idyllic institutions other then the common laws. In the American system Ideals are meant to work only within the workings of the two systems. Hence all polities are represented both by majority and by distinction, regardless of geographical or political conditions.
The settlements are now in a position much like the position the 13 colonies were in, during the 18th century. Then the cry was, "No Taxation Without Representation!" today it is "No Pullout Operations Without representation!"
Because the settlements are not represented by the parliament, the central government can not "democratically"-- legislate policy in the settlements.
If the PLO can get autonomy and virtual statehood on land that is not theirs, cannot the settlements be free to become autonomous on land that truly and justifiably is theirs?
Does autonomy mean another state like "Palestine"? No it does not mean another country! It does however mean a federation.
The Federation of the settlements:
It will be made up of two types of jurisdictions: Arab and Jewish.
It will be made up of two houses of representation based on the American model. However there will be no president. There will be a leader or head of the houses nominated and elected by the majority. That head will act with the same power the Prime Minister in a parliamentary system does.
All unsettled land will be treated as the American frontier was treated. There will be a set rational population number with which a settlement can be considered a new district. Each district receives 2 representatives for the senate and 1 representative for the congressional house, for each time the required district population number is doubled. Laws can be created by passing through 2/3 of one house and a simple majority of the other. Each individual district will however do the implementation. The same can be done in Israel proper.
I believe that fundamentally opposed national interests cannot coexist in the same immediate environment. The ideas of Zionism and the ideas of Palestinian Nationalism are mutually exclusionary. Therefore the only sustained political existence can exist in entities that exist under each party’s own terms. However the political reality does not allow for that.
I do however believe that a solution can be found in the concept of Federalism supported by the founding fathers, Thomas Jefferson, James Madison and Alexander Hamilton.
In his inaugural address Jefferson Davis, the first president of the confederacy declared: “the American idea that governments rest upon the consent of the governed, and that it is the right of the people to alter or abolish governments whenever they become destructive of the ends for which they were established.The declared purpose of the compact of the union from which we have withdrawn was “to establish justice, insure domestic tranquility, provide for the common defense, promote the general welfare, and secure the blessings of liberty to ourselves and our posterity.
And so I believe that in accordance with that the land that consists of the occupied territories should mutually concede from the rest of the state of Israel, and form its own states and jurisdictions, with Arab cities, Arab, and Jewish cities, Jewish. And it is only in such a manner in which diametrically opposed societies can coexist.
Shragi Feldman
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