According to this site there are currently 3,328,300 Palestinians living on the West Bank and Gaza.
If one were to consider those numbers alone, and not include the estimated 1.15 million Arabs (Muslims and Christians) living in Israel, then these are the states we might consider offering to refugees from an apartheid regime:
Oregon: 3,521,515–Oklahoma: 3,493,714–Connecticut: 3,460,503.
If you think the Arab Israelis might also consider taking us up on this offer then these states could be considered:
Colorado: 4,506,542–Alabama: 4,486,508–Louisiana: 4,482,646.
Oh yes I know. I must be ‘Anti-Semitic’ and Daniel Pipes, recently appointed to the Institute of Peace, was being diplomatic when he said that “Israel should seek complete ‘victory’ over the native Arab population of Palestine,” which, he says, means “destroying the Palestinians’ will to resist Israeli occupation and seizure of their land.”
And he certainly wasn’t displaying xenophobic tendencies when he created this website.
So do we need another Balfour or can we act just once in a civilised manner without prolonged mis-negotiations? Drop the pretenses, there isn’t any road map that will deliver a solution Israel or the United States Congress will tolerate. One state, two states, neither will ever come to fruition.
Palestinians need an intervention. Offering them their own state would protect them to a large extent from the genocide they’d face elsewhere. If not we can always outfit the new republic with nuclear weapons they can refuse to declare.