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I once heard the late Abba Eban, formerly foreign minister of Israel, address a dovish Jewish audience in New York. In that rather plummy British-English accent of his, he began by saving that what struck the eye first, in any contemplation of the Israel-Palestine dispute, was the simplicity and ease of its solution.
That was a good way of getting attention. This problem is usually coupled with the word intractable, if not an even stronger term suggesting grave difficulty. But in outline, it is not as convoluted as all that. There are two competing nationalisms, Arab and Jewish, in Palestine, and it has been implicitly agreed ever since the Balfour Declaration of 1917 that some kind of territorial share-out, between approximately equivalent populations, would provide the basis for a solution. Partition is not ideal and doesn't have a very good track record elsewhere, but...
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