Palestinian Statehood at Last ( Archived) (841)

7. Time Required for Implementation
This settlement, involving the necessary surveys, drawing-up of
projects and the execution of the work, will probably occupy between
five and ten tears. Neutral troops should remain in the area until
the work is completed and all is quiet.

8. Political Future of the West Bank
At some point, after five or ten years or when the settlement is
complete, the Palestinians establishes on the West Bank should
be allowed to decide by plebiscite or other means, on their own
political future.

9. Exchange of Territory
The Gaza Strip should be annexed to Israel and an equivalent area
of cultivatable soil west of the Jordan be surrendered by her in return.
If Israel wishes to retain the Amwas-Latrun area, an equal area of
cultivatable land west of the Jordan should be given in exchange.
The following could be suitable areas:
1. The area between Beisan and the Jordan
2. The Israeli colonies south of the Sea of Galilee.
3. The Israeli colonies north of Lake Hula.
Israel should evacuate the Golan Heights.
The basis of which border exchanges should be arranged should
be to provide land to resettle the refugees, not to bow to Israel's
demands for strategic positions. The only ultimate and permanent
security for Israel lies in amicable relations with her neighbors, not
in piling up armaments and in expansion to secure "strategic frontiers".

I would also like to mention (again) that Israel still doesn`t have a constitution.. Which in their case becomes very appropriate in the light of their politics.

Discrimination against minorities is easy since there is no protection within the law. Their rights doesn`t exist.

But for Israels government to set up a constitution would be a hard balance of compromises. And compromises are just not their strongest abilities..

There has been made a proposed constitution from the Israeli Democracy Institute which is being formed of compromises, but it is so far rejected.

Because of the lack of a constitution - freedom of speech will also be limited. No laws protects the right for different views - and here I speak of journalist and politicians who doesn`t support the far right core in the government.
So the critism is effectively silenced, except for those living abroad. (Which gives remindings of the status of Iran!)

Why is it not possible to come up with a constitution for Israel??
Simply because the Zionists doesn`t want to compromise.

Here`s an extract from jcpa.org:

Beyond the Basic Laws, other legislation has constitutional implications and is so treated. Thus the Knesset has constitutionalized the definition of who is a Jew for immigration and registration purposes through the Law of Return. Its resolution of that issue is periodically called into question and has been given stronger constitutional status through court interpretation and through the reluctance of the Knesset itself to change what it has done even when pressed hard to do so.

Similarly, the evolving relationship between Israel and the Jewish people has been constitutionalized through a covenant negotiated with the World Zionist Organization and the Jewish Agency, and enacted as legislation by the Knesset (see Table 1). That covenant, concluded between the Government of Israel and the World Zionist Execu-tive in its role at that time as the directorate of the Jewish Agency, allocated functions between the two bodies and made it clear that the Agency was not a state institution but a national one (that is, one that belongs to the whole Jewish people). This covenant was supplemented by a joint declaration in 1960 which specified that "the State of Israel sees itself as the creation of the Jewish People in total, and expects efforts from the ZWF's (Zionist World Federation) side to reach the unity of the nation for the State...."10 Subsequent agreements have transferred other functions to the state and have altered the structure of the Agency to make it more representative of the Jewish people as a whole, but the basic constitutional framework remains the foundation of the federal pattern which Israel and its diaspora partners are fostering as a means of unifying world Jewry.