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1 min readJan 15, 2024

Unfortunately the current estimate is that clearing the rubble in Gaza will take one year and its rebuilding seven to ten years, if the funding is there. (https://twitter.com/NRC_MiddleEast/status/1741341343111110950 ). Palestinian people will have to temporarily live somewhere during this time and one does not want another exodus. Further, in the West-Bank alone there will be insufficient of such temporary space. My other point is that peace-building can only take place by non-violent interaction learning to know each other, (other than by fighting each other) and that any two-state solution embeds the major risk of full separation and conservation of hatred, leading to a reignition of a conflict in the long run.... (so far there is a circle of truce followed by war, there never has been real peacebuilding). This is why I propose a living together in a confederation of settlements which can be anywhere (as in the times of Canaan, which I used here as the oldest name of the territory where multiple ethnicities/religions lived together, whereas the Levant is very ambitious in this sense being a much larger area.) This all may sound completely crazy but realize that most countries in Europe have been enemies for centuries...

See also: www.pax.ngo and www.convergence.ngo

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