Buongiorno specie al mio preferito!

Imagine a thought experiment in this Season of Peace. The USA decides to give up "Yellowstone National Park"in the name of Peace in the Middle East. It becomes our latest monument, this time to 'world peace.' We make a deal with the Israelis or Palestinians, and tell them we will not only hand it over to one of them, but provide the heavy lifting for 'Exodus II' and transport an entire nation of folks over to their new digs. We will even pay to pack up whatever dusty bones of the prophets are required, what ancient stones and relics as may be required, and carefully move them to the wilderness formerly known as YNP. Whoever takes the deal gets access to a secure new land, as well as favored access to the US Economies. We don't care who takes the deal, they just need to decide between themselves, and stop blowing up children in buses and so on. The USA, instead of spending billions on military aid/proxy intervention in the region, proposes this radical 'land for peace' solution to the current two dog/one bone problem.

Most people I describe this thought experiment to, as well as all of the sane among them, know immediately that this would never work. Even if the USA found the will to do this, even if it would result in children growing up free from war and strife and hostility in one new country and one old country, we all know, as naked sweaty apes, that not even this would solve this conflict, because God and/or a prophet overbooked the region and promised it to at least two peoples, possibly three peoples. This is a two dog, one bone problem, and no Solomon in sight to threaten to split the prize in two.

It is, at most, a thought experiment, but it is revealing, I think. On the current trajectory, this land and the dusty bones of the prophets belong to whichever tribe is left standing after the last battle.

If this was the Middle East of America, we'd have turned it into a religious theme park already. Jewish kids and Arab kids would be visiting "HolyLand" and gleefully riding animatronic re-enactments of past events. Of course, that crass commercialism would desecrate the holy land... whereas bombs in school buses apparently does not. Oh yeah, this is much better.

Reguarda,
Frediano