United States of Canaan
There are various forms of having democracy and plurality in the Land of Canaan. My book on Sharing the Land of Canaan basically summarizes the mythologies used to prevent this logical solution and articulates a vision shared by millions around the world. Indeed it is the only viable and durable solution to the conundrums of the Middle East.
All solutions that are durable would have to be based on basic human rights and equality. In fact these principles are articulated admirably in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (Exhibit 1). This would obviously include the right of refugees to return to their homes and lands and abolishing any discriminatory and racist laws (such as the so called "Jewish Law of Return" guranteeing any Jew including converts automatic citizenship whil denying it to natives who happen to be Christian or Muslim). The Constitution of the ANC in South Africa provides a good model.
To read more, see Background on the unitary solution and review some of the any books written on the subject. There are also many Articles on Unitary solution.
There was a call from Israelis and Palestinians for this solution. For example here is Hillel Barak's call.
Two other web resource for information on the one state solution are the
The One Democratic State Group
One State Association
The Movement for One Democratic Secular State
The Association for one democratic state in Israel/Palestine
http://www.onedemocraticstate.org/mideasthome.html
Proposed Constitution http://www.adalah.org/eng/democratic_constitution-e.pdf
Conferences and other reports: Report on Haifa Conference
http://www.ror1state.org - Site of the 1st Haifa conference.
http://www.awda1state.org - Site of the 2nd Haifa conference.
Other solutions http://www.parityforpeace.org |